Sardinia Travel Guide: Best Time to Visit, Getting There and Around Sardinia is Italy’s second-largest island, sitting in the Mediterranean roughly halfway between the Italian mainland, Corsica ...
Welcome to Heraklion Airport Heraklion International Airport (HER) is the busiest airport in Crete and one of the busiest airports in Greece, welcoming millions of visitors every year. For many travel...
Welcome to Chania Airport Chania International Airport (CHQ) is the main gateway to western Crete, welcoming millions of visitors each year. Officially named Chania International Airport “Ioannis Dask...
Your Complete Guide to Ferry Routes from Crete Crete has six main passenger ports on its north coast: Heraklion, Souda (Chania), Rethymno, Kissamos, Sitia and Agios Nikolaos. They do not all serve the...
Why Oslo Is the Gateway to Norway’s Ski Resorts For travellers heading into the Norwegian mountains, Oslo Airport to ski resorts is one of the most useful routes to understand before booking a w...
Budapest turns properly magical once the temperature drops. The Hungarian capital runs two headline Christmas markets each winter, both set against some of Europe’s grandest architecture, and bo...
Brussels does not try to out-Vienna Vienna or out-Strasbourg Strasbourg, and that is exactly why its Christmas season is worth planning around. The city’s official market, Winter Wonders (Plaisi...
Liverpool takes a different approach to Christmas than most English cities: rather than one sprawling market, its festive season centres on the neoclassical grandeur of St George’s Hall and the ...
Every December since 1947, the city of Oslo has felled a Norway spruce from its own forests and shipped it to London, where it stands lit in Trafalgar Square as thanks for Britain’s support duri...
Cologne does not run one Christmas market. It runs seven, spread across the city from the foot of the Kölner Dom cathedral to the Rhine waterfront, and each has its own distinct character rather than ...
Düsseldorf runs seven separate Christmas markets scattered across its compact city centre, and what makes the city worth a dedicated guide isn’t the number but the sheer contrast between them. A...
Florence is not the first city that comes to mind for a Christmas market trip, but tucked into Piazza Santa Croce, right in front of one of the city’s grandest Renaissance basilicas, sits one of...
Belfast has built a genuinely sizeable Christmas market in front of one of the most striking civic buildings in the British Isles. Every November, the grounds around Belfast City Hall in Donegall Squa...
Glasgow’s Christmas season looks genuinely different in 2025 and 2026 than in any year before it: the city’s usual home for its winter markets, George Square, is closed for an 18-month red...
Amsterdam doesn’t do Christmas the way most of Europe does, and that’s worth knowing before comparing it to the huge market squares of Germany or Austria. There’s no single, centurie...
Manchester runs one of England’s biggest spreads of Christmas markets, with ten distinct sites scattered across the city centre rather than a single square doing all the work. From Albert Square...
Helsinki does Christmas differently to almost anywhere else on this site’s European market coverage, because the market itself is only half the story. Tuomaan Markkinat, Finland’s oldest a...
Dublin does not have a centuries-old Christmas market in the way Vienna, Strasbourg or Cologne do, and it is worth saying that plainly before anyone books a trip expecting an Alpine-style wooden villa...
While most of Europe’s festive cities shiver through freezing December evenings, Lisbon offers something genuinely different: a Christmas city break where daytime temperatures often still reach ...
Kraków’s Christmas market fills Rynek Główny, the largest medieval market square in Europe, with the Gothic towers of St Mary’s Basilica and the Renaissance arcades of the Cloth Hall stand...
Tallinn’s Christmas market fills Raekoja plats, the medieval Town Hall Square at the centre of one of Europe’s best-preserved walled old towns, and it’s the setting more than the sca...
Birmingham hosts a genuinely different kind of British Christmas market: rather than a home-grown festive fair, Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market is a real import from the city’s Ger...
Strasbourg has the strongest historical claim of any Christmas market in France. The Christkindelsmärik first opened on Place Broglie in 1570, making it the oldest documented Christmas market in the c...
Colmar is routinely called the prettiest town in Alsace, and at Christmas that reputation only grows. The half-timbered houses of the old town are painted in soft pinks, blues and ochres, and from lat...
Salzburg is Mozart’s birthplace and the setting for much of The Sound of Music, and both of those legacies shape its Christmas season more than in almost any other European city. This is a place...
Every November, Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town turns into one of Britain’s most photographed festive backdrops. Princes Street Gardens, sunk below the floodlit silhouette of Edinburgh Castl...
Plan what to see and do in Brussels, from the Grand Place and Atomium to museums, Belgian Beer World, EU attractions, free sights and the Brussels Card....
Getting Around Brussels Brussels is one of the easiest European capitals to explore without a car. The city has a dense mix of metro lines, premetro tunnels, trams, buses and local trains, and most vi...
Compare the Brussels Card, STIB transport, Atomium and hop-on hop-off options to work out which city pass offers the best value for your trip....
Welcome to Brussels Airport Brussels Airport (BRU) is Belgium’s main international airport and one of the easiest major European airports from which to reach the city centre. The airport sits at Zaven...
