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Popular in the Roaring Twenties, Le Touquet is now more down to earthSpend your days strolling the pearly white beach, with its colourful hutsYou can also…

My five-year-old daughter Saskia has a question. ‘Are we going to meet Zeus?’ she asks. This is after I’ve explained a little about Mount Olympus being the home of the…

Living in Shanghai makes New York seem provincial, says a transplanted U.S. professor, now running the Chinese offshoot of New York University. ‘It feels open to the…

On the trail of Winnie the Pooh: If you loved (or cried watching) Goodbye Christopher Robin, you should take a trip to AA Milne's old stomping…

This is no health farm. Piedmont - underneath the Alps, in the top left-hand corner of Italy - introduced the world to Nutella and Martini.It’s also where…

Don’t tell anyone — my teenagers would die of shame. But my favourite thing about our family villa holiday in Sicily were my 8am Embarrassing Dad nudie swims.Each…

After three days of sea air, it was only as were leaving that it dawned on me: we hadn’t gone anywhere near the sea. There was not a grain of sand in a child’s shoe,…

There were moments during what was supposed to be a gentle family bike ride around Ile de Re where we felt that, just maybe, we’d bitten off more than we could…

The summer holidays can be long for working parents. But there is a way to get your children off the sofa and away from their games consoles - and they might just…

The Russians have gone, so bag a Baltic bargain! How Latvia is one of Europe's best (and cheapest) treasuresThe Daily Mail's Adriaane Pielou roamed the…