With the Tour de France a week away,Tim Moore discovers the perfect hotel for cyclists – a château in the shadow of the Alps that combines serious riding with serious comfort
One hundred years ago, the Jungfrau Railway helped make the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland one of the continent’s supreme destinations. On board the train Jan Morris finds a world where science fiction becomes ‘science fact’
With experts predicting the most spectacular Northern Lights for a decade, a new travel company is using meteorological data to seek out the best vantage points. But will nature oblige?