Author Archives: Julian Worker

Landmark galleries are great, but there’s a fascination and immediacy about the small, offbeat museums scattered across the Icelandic countryside

Canny visitors could find they have the Black Forest, ‘Saxon Switzerland’ or the Baltic coast almost to themselves

The tourists are trickling back but the streets and canals are still quiet enough to make cycling around the city an unexpected summer treat

It only spans 40 miles but the Belgian coast is one long line of fun resorts, nature reserves and beaches, all linked by the world’s longest tramline

With their low infection rate, the islands are being used as a laboratory for safe tourism. Joining a trial flight with the UN’s World Tourism Organization, we find Fuerteventura organised, welcoming and very clean

The ‘ignominy of division and joy of reunification’ are only part of the journey when exploring Germany through its fiction

From pop-up campsites and bunkhouses with plenty of activities to stylish houses in the woods, we round up great places to stay that still have summer availability

The country will be quieter this summer, particularly the beautiful south. We pick areas for lovers of seaside, mountains and wildlife

Novelist Ian Rankin and other locals walk Edinburgh’s locked-down, tourist-free streets, and discover parts of the city they never knew existed

Beautiful, remote and relaxed escapes as Europe starts to welcome back visitors