Michele Hewitson ticks off the items on her Paris to-do lists and discovers even more to do.

World sharemarkets have stayed stable overnight, as investors appear unperturbed at the outcome of elections in France and Greece.

As the French prepare to vote on Monday, Mary Dejevsky says the outcome is far from certain

Twenty-seven kilometres up and over the Pyrenees is one of the bigger days on the 775km trail.

This tiny Portuguese island was once home to Christopher Columbus, writes Sarah Baxter.

Former nzherald.co.nz news editor Simon Winter takes on the 775-kilometre Spanish Pilgrim Trail.

This pretty town in the Southern Bohemia region of the Czech Republic is a Unesco World Heritage Site, with 300 protected buildings in the Centrum alone. When the Communists were in charge here, they disapproved of the 800-year-old town's bright colours and painted everything grey, but the buildings have been restored to their former colourful glory now the regime has ended.

Communists could not dim the glow of Southern Bohemia, writes David Hill.

Not many people know that Denmark and Sweden are joined by the longest road-and-rail bridge in Europe.

This golf and spa resort near the Italian fishing village of Savelletri is the brainchild of Aldo Melpignano, a former investment banker who owns it with his family. It looks as if it has been there for centuries, but it opened fully only in 2011, offering accommodation within a village environment in either townhouses or luxurious private villas.

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Life was harsh down a 200-year-old Cornish tin mine, finds Jim Eagles.

The man accused of Emily Longley's murder told friends he had killed her in the days before her death.

Caroline Phillips visits Puglia's newest village resort and marvels at the region's food.