If you're building yourself a summer palace, you might as well go the whole hog, and back in 1840 King Ferdinand designed himself a Ro...

Lisbon in  a day: stupid even to try, really, but we did - in what time remained either side of fitting in a long lunch, and going out to ...

So today we drove towards Lisbon, vainly searching en route for sheep with bells on for a typical photo which turned out to be not typic...

Borba is a marble town, and I strolled around it early this morning watching the sun warm it up as it rose high enough to shine d...

Today's been one of those "you're not on holiday - this is a job" days, starting at almost 5am with jetlag and homework ...

There are worse ways, I guess, to spend a sunny Sunday than sprawled in Emirates’ business class watching movies – but I’m glad the jou...

Six ear-pops and 124 floors up from the ground, this is part of the view from the world's tallest building (currently - Saudi Arabia i...