There is a side of Morocco we don’t know at all, the northern part of the country, the Mediterranean, the green Morocco. This is the area north of the Atlantic coastal capital of Rabat, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. This region is one of the most diverse and exciting parts of Morocco, where natural beauty and historical traditions blend perfectly. You could say it’s a “crossroads of cultures” – because it’s where Arab, Berber and Andalusian heritage meets European (mainly Spanish) influences, especially in towns like Tetouan and Tangier. It is Morocco’s ‘blue and green countryside’ – the lush, forested landscapes of the Rif mountains, the blue and white Mediterranean beach houses and the iconic blue town of Safsauen.

A splendid weekend getaway at Croatia’s Krk island

The time-honoured Krk Island sits in the northern Adriatic Sea, 50 kilometres from Rijeka, the nearest city on the mainland. Krk is the most populous island in the Adriatic region with some 20,000 people and comes as a popular tourist destination.

Croatian cuisine – in clear line of sight from neighbouring Hungary

Mali Lošinj, the capital of Lošinj Island, is a splendid locality 125 kilometres south from Rijeka, the nearest city on the Croatian mainland. It is also known as the “Island of Vitality”. Within the last 140 years, this Northern Adriatic terra ferma in the ...

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Osijek to be available by highway from June

The final section of the motorway link between Budapest and Osijek will be completed by June, writes the Croatian daily newspaper ‘Vecernji List’. This will complete the entire Croatian section of the European North-South Transport Corridor 5C.

Australia’s TFE Hotels welcomes A by Adina to Europe  

With the opening of A by Adina Vienna Danube, Australian hotel group TFE Hotels is celebrating the European debut of its premium apartment brand, A by Adina. The new 120-room apartment-style hotel, which will open in April in the impressive 180-metre-high DANUBEFLATS skyscraper in ...

Straight to Kiev with a night train

The international express train ‘Transcarpathia’, consisting of Ukrainian sleeping cars, will now run daily between Budapest and Kiev, the state railway company MÁV has announced.

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A symbolic impression of Ukraine's second city in suburban Pest

Little Kharkiv tucked away in Thököly Road

A place I was fortunate to travel to this year between pandemic lockdowns was Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the east of the country. And it's interesting that since my return to Budapest there have been certain moments back home when things suddenly spring ...

Szolnok with an unexpected Estonian twist

A tale of two Tallinns

This wintery, restricted-action January I yearned for a day out. It did not matter where. In haste, I took the first train out of the city and went to Szolnok. I had no real aim in mind other than to be the mere tourist ...

Tower top matches famous Hollywood film

A touch of “Vertigo” at Polish church

With all respect to the Polska Parafia Personalna w Budapeszcie, which translates as the Polish Personal Parish in Budapest, whenever in line of sight of this Kőbánya landmark it is the tower top that gives the surreal but impulsive take I always have here ...

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Travel writers organisation returns to the road

Promoting tourism in post-plague times

It was a case of “worth the wait” when the Croatian sector of the Fédération Internationale des Jounalistes et Ecrivains du Tourisme (FIJET, World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers) held its annual Marco Polo awards ceremony in Zagreb on December 9, having had ...

Szolnok with an unexpected Estonian twist

A tale of two Tallinns

This wintery, restricted-action January I yearned for a day out. It did not matter where. In haste, I took the first train out of the city and went to Szolnok. I had no real aim in mind other than to be the mere tourist ...

A symbolic impression of Ukraine's second city in suburban Pest

Little Kharkiv tucked away in Thököly Road

A place I was fortunate to travel to this year between pandemic lockdowns was Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the east of the country. And it's interesting that since my return to Budapest there have been certain moments back home when things suddenly spring ...