Europe’s last great cheap cities – with £2 beers and lunches under £5

Bucharest’s lively bars and emblematic museums offer affordable prices – Alamy It feels increasingly difficult to find a really cheap city to travel to. At a time when exchange rates were more favorable and parts of Europe were much less explored, a holiday abroad could be quite affordable. Coffee was cheap; food was cheap. Tapas … Read more

Ski holidays in Italy just got more glamorous (but without the A-price tag)

Travel writer Leslie Woit boards the first SkyAlps flight from London to Bolzano From the drizzle-soaked tarmac one afternoon in Essex, we had a few moments to kill before we set off. As he idly flipped through the inflight magazine, a dreamscape of mountain wellness hotels and powder slopes filled the air. There it was, … Read more