Travel

On our way to Maui, we stopped in Oahu to visit Pearl Harbor, as our sons were studying the Second World War. We landed in Honolulu early morning, and drove to the Lotus Hotel, located south of Waikiki Beach near Diamond Head.

As soon as we check into Hotel Chic on the outskirts of Hô.i An, Vietnam, my sister and I drop our bags and jump into a jeep to head to the city centre in search of fashion, leaving my husband behind to run through the rice paddies.

It seems like no matter where I plan to ride my bicycle, someone warns me not to go. "The roads are busy there, and the drivers are crazy," is the usual refrain.

Just arrived from Shanghai, I'm standing at the luggage carousel amongst maybe 150 other passengers ... waiting.

Steel fabrication and B.C.'s wildfire season contribute to delay

The little nostalgic steam engine huffs and puffs its way up the steep track as we leave the lakeside village of St. Wolfgang in Austria. We are bound for Schafberg Mountain and our carriage is full of expectant and excited people.

Ancient tortoises, deserted beaches and travelling by catamaran the highlights of this island-hopping holiday in the Indian Ocean

Ber-hin-ya. Is this enough adrenalin, for you, Ber-hin-ya?" I would shout, "Yes!" Except the word would be lost under the sound of thundering hooves as Juan and his horse overtake me at a race-course gallop.

Staying on a classic houseboat while in Amsterdam is the very Dutch thing to do

Portugal's wild coast looks pretty placid where the Mira River flows lazily into the Atlantic Ocean. A few fishing boats bob in the gentle current beneath an ivy-clad fortress built in the 16th century to fend off pirates from North Africa.