In this guest post, Margaret Doherty gets a taste of the high life in the Swiss Bernese Oberland."The spectacular mountains, valleys and lakes of Switzerland's Bernese Oberland have been on the tourist trail since the Grand Tourists first discovered the

I hadn't been to Spain in about 10 years so on my recent trip to Madrid, I was looking forward to seeing what had changed and what hadn't. Well, the sunny Spanish weather was still there, as well as the

If you're in London and would like to be magically transported back by candlelight through the centuries to a Christmas in 18th century East London, then visit the Dennis Severs House in Shoreditch. The house is set in a Georgian

I'm off to Tuscany for a week at the end of November 2009. I'll be staying in Pisa, Florence and Lucca. If you have any tips on what I should do and see in this area, please leave a comment