Steeped in skiing history, Chamonix, France, might well be one of the most famous ski towns on the planet. That’s for good ...

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The Riviera’s most mythical palace hotel promises unadulterated luxury and retro glamour in spades. Favour either end of the summer season to properly soak up the peace, romance and understated ...

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From towering mountains to golden shores, Europe’s diverse landscape is perfect for exploring by rail. And tourists are catching on. A ‘rail renaissance’ has seen increasing numbers of ...

Spas, even the sheer thought of them, are supposed to be relaxing: a much-deserved break from the chaotically mundane lives we all seem to be swept up in. But there’s nothing zen or mindful ...

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The new arrivals are forming an orderly queue outside an unlovely Dublin office block surrounded by a stockade of temporary metal fencing. This is the International Protection Office (IPO ...

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A US teenager has been detained in Paris after her newborn baby was allegedly thrown out of a hotel window and died, prosecutors and French media say. The young woman, who was not named, was taken ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live like an Eskimo? The Iglu-Dorf hotel chain can give you a feel for it – because it runs five igloo holiday ‘villages’ in the Alps made ...