The White Cliffs of Dover form part of the British coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliffs have great symbolic value for Britain because they face towards Continental Europe across...

The Giant's Causeway (known in Irish as Clochán an Aifir or Clochán na bhFómharach) is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located...

Like most districts of Artvin this is a beautiful hilly area surrounded by high mountains on all sides, including the 3,537 m Karçkal mountains to the west, and watered by many mountain streams and p...

Kyle of Lochalsh is a village on the northwest coast of Scotland, 100 km west of Inverness. It is located at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye. A ferry wh...

Thasos, the northernmost Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea, floats close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river Nestos, but is geographically part of Macedonia. The island w...

Only only one hour from the Mediterranean coast, Granada is situated in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, and the city of Granada is placed at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at a...

Vlora is the city where the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912, and the city was for a short time the capital of Albania. Ride along the coast from here to Sarand...

The spectacular coast/mountain road from Skala to Fiskardo leaves you with a feeing that you want to do it again right after, so you do, and that's still not enough, so a couple of hours later, you fi...

Møns Klint is an impressive landmark along the eastern coast of the Danish island of Møn in the Baltic Sea. The bright chalk cliffs stretch some 6 km from the park of Liselund in the north to the li...

Metsovo is a beautiful mountain town in Epirus, high in the Pindus mountains of northern Greece, between Ioannina to the north and Meteora to the south. The town is famous for its local cheeses (Metso...

The Atlantic Road is a 8km stretch of road between the towns of Kristiansund and Molde, the two main population centres in the county of Møre og Romsdal in Fjord Norway. The road starts approximately...

The road from Barcelona to Andorra doesn't require any introduction, and more or less speaks for itself, but it's really worth taking the time to explore it for yourself, and draw your own conclusions...

Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, which is only 34 km wide here, and is the closest French town to England, of which Calais was a territorial possession...

Kato Katelios was a vital port and trading centre during the Venetian period. Located at the western end of Mounda Bay, Kefalonia, and separated from the main bay by a small outcrop of rocks, Katelios...

The city of Kissamos is also known as Kastelli-Kissamou and often known simply as Kastelli after the Venetian castle that was there. It is now a port and fishing harbour, with a regular ferry from the...

Due to the 19th century Romantic architecture, the "Cultural Landscape of Sintra" is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of mainland Europe, lies 18 kilometres west of Si...

Tarragona is a beautiful city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, right by the Mediterranean. In Roman times, the city was named Tarraco and was capital of the province of Hi...

Tønder was granted Hanseatic port privileges in 1243, and is thus Denmark's oldest privileged market town. In 1532, the town was hit by severe flooding, with the water reaching 1.8 metres high in St ...

The city of Chania can be divided in two parts: the old town and the modern city which is the larger one. The old town is situated next to the old harbour and is the core around which the whole urban ...

Narvik, one of the most northerly towns in the world, is located on the shores of the Narvik Fjord, in the Ofoten traditional region of North Norway, inside the arctic circle. This means you have to c...