Some cities win travelers over through small surprises rather than famous postcards. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Olomouc, Leeuwarden, ...

A regular weekend can feel special when the first few hours are easy. You arrive, find the main square, follow a canal, smell ...

Spectacle of leafy ash, oak and elm ambling through Leeuwarden’s streets offers vision of a greener future It is less of a marathon and more of an amble. But then a “walking forest” of 1,000 trees was ...

Picturesque Leeuwarden is the unassuming birthplace of the First World War’s most notorious spy William Cook writes about travel in continental Europe for The Telegraph, in particular Central Europe, ...

The best way to see this year’s joint European Capital of Culture is to ask the residents to show you their city – for free It’s just after 10am and I’m cycling through the narrow cobblestone streets ...

Leeuwarden: Canals, cafes and culture Leeuwarden in the Netherlands is quiet, beautiful and relatively unknown. That is about to change, because this picturesque provincial capital - along with ...

Gavin Haines is a travel writer and journalist known for his adventurous reporting, which has included taking the train from London to Beijing and entering Gloucestershire's wildly dangerous ...