One of the appeals of Menton on the French Riviera is the largest museum dedicated to the works of Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), a famous French artist who died fifty years ago. Frederic exolores the museum and the three towns forever linked with his work.

It is only a few days until New Zealand celebrates Matariki – the Maori new year. The name comes from a star group called Matariki which we might know better as the Pleiades or the seven sisters.

The Yukon in northern Canada is one of those places that is best seen in summer one reason being that you have 20 hours of daylight to enjouy it. It is at its best because 80% of the Yukon is pristine – comparatively untouched century after century by man.

San Antonio, in Texas, is dotted with missions having more of them than any other city in the United States. But seeing all of them has been made difficult by having no linking between them.
Now that has altered and a new river walk will connect every one of the missions.

For centuries cherry blossom time has been celebrated in Japan, so it was with excitement that I found myself bound for Kyoto, cultural centre of Japan. It is great gardens for which Kyoto is famous and the first anyone wants to see the Zen dry garden Ryoan-ji.

Readers will have heard of the Grand Canyon but Big Bend? This major nation park in Texas has a million acres of public land and is ideal for those who prefer a more active holiday. The area has a vast desert expanses, rocky canyons, craggy mountains forested with pine and oak juniper trees and, claims the local tourist board, has the bluest skies and crystal clear nights.

It isn’t easy travelling somewhere that no-one knows. It isn’t easy finding something that no-one has seen for some time but in Papua New Guinea you stand a chance. This is one of the few places on Earth where something new can be found.

Château de ChantillyOnly June 22: Musical Night at the Château de Chantilly
Next Saturday from 6pm to midnight, the gardens of the magnificent Chantilly Castle will host a musical night of about fifty short classical music concerts that will be played in a dozen stages throughout the park. Thousands of candles on the ground will create [...]

Coney Island has been portrayed in old American black and white films as the place New Yorkers head to when the work is done. Now the clean-up after the storm called Sandy hit the place has been completed, new attractions have opened as the old ones re-opened. It could be the time for you to re-think your attitudes to Coney Island as well.

Situated on the north-east coast of Scotland, the city of Aberdeen is unlike any other city in the UK. Not just because it is one of the few UK cities with a stunning beach and coastline, but because it is a fantastic city for budget getaways.

Just a few weeks after we heard which beaches in our countries had been awarded blue flags, the same has been happening throughout Europe. The place with more blue flags than any other part of Italy is Liguria – as it has been for the last four years.

Irene Thomas loves the vibe in Nashville and found the ‘country’ inside her at the Honky Tonks

Catherine Henderson visits the third most popular destination in Europe after London and Paris, Berlin which is Germany’s most multi-cultural city, a city saturated with galleries and museums, from traditional to the more underground avant-garde variety.

Two days are barely enough to scratch the shiny surface of Seoul, but it’s a start. Undoubtedly others might recommend different itineraries altogether, but that’s the beauty of a big city – there are always new areas to discover.

How long does it take to create a completely new tourism attraction? A couple of years? Five years? A decade? In Alabama in the US, They have achieved that in just under a year.

As we bask in some welcome sunshine after a long winter and unseasonably low temperatures, for those ski affecionados it isn’t time to pack their kit away, it’s time to look elsewhere.
Resorts in the Australian state of Victoria and the south island of New Zealand are two places to which skiers will be casting glances.

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world right now

With so much coverage given to the opening of the Mary Rose Museum yesterday, you might feel you have seen and heard enough. For those who have, move onto another story now because I am about to tell you my impressions of the museum.

Little animals with big, appealing eyes always seem to score well for day trippers. But there are opportunities to get close to animals in the wild and one such place where you can do that is at the British Wildlife Centre near Lingfield in Surrey.

Irene Thomas travels to Elkhart Lake and finds the area blissfully free of chains, big box stores and billboards – an America not found much anymore

For the quintessential British summer evening, look no further than the award winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – now in its 81st season

Where you take children often depends on the weather. If it’s fine the great outdoors; if it’s wet – the great indoors. But if the day is going to be a mixture then St Fagans might be your best bet

If I’d only thought a little earlier, this weekend might have been an ideal time to visit these two cities. Hotel rooms would be cheaper and the museums and galleries would be less busy. After all, a lot of the inhabitants are over here!

Irene Thomas found Curacao the most successfully diverse country she has ever visited – and one of the most beautiful as well

Remember the weather yesterday? It’s going to be similar today. Cold. Which seems a very unfair way of introducing a destination that you only ever think of as cold – Alaska. Yet the US state has an appeal of its own that’s completely unlike any other part of the country.

Mexico already has quite a few reasons to attract visitors. Now it may well have another and in an area where tourists, at least from the UK, don’t tend to go. Archaeologists have discovered 4,926 hitherto unknown cave paintings.

The news that Spring has probably been the coldest for the last thirty-four years made me look for a summery, hot story for this morning to cheer us up. The Caribbean provides fun and the sunshine.