Europe

Reading Time: 5 minutes Europeans, here are our recommendations for your close-to-home adventures this October.

Reading Time: 7 minutes With restrictions beginning to ease for European travellers, we’ve created our new range of Intrepid Retreats so you can embark on adventures a little closer to home.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Sure, you want to see the Red Square, travel on the Trans-Mongolian and eat borscht until you burst. But these are the experiences to have in Russia if you really want to feel like a local.

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Nenets have set up camp for us high above the Arctic Circle. They’ve raised the poles and rolled out the canvas, laid down reindeer pelts and stacked firewood inside the stove in preparation for our arrival. Now they wait, tending their herds and weaving lassos.

Reading Time: 5 minutes The key to finding the right Greek island for you is knowing what you like – food, adventure, parties or history – and where you can find it.

Reading Time: 5 minutes A life-saving dolphin, philandering gods, and the Lost City of Atlantis? Heres why myth lovers shouldn’t miss the Greek Islands.

Reading Time: 7 minutes Straddling the divide between Europe and Asia, Istanbul is a humming metropolis up there with the best in the world. There are soaring mosques to see, Ottoman-era markets to explore and…

Reading Time: 7 minutes There are few places in this big ol’ world left under the radar, but Baku is one that should be right at the top of your ‘must visit’ list.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Like most disasters, it began with what I thought was a good idea at the time. Unlike most disasters, it involved a Finnish DJ and the Sahara.