Sara Serrão, owner of Cerca do Sul on Portugal’s Costa Vicentina, tells us how she was first introduced to Inntravel:

One day, I was at my small B&B, Cerca do Sul, located on the captivating Costa Vicentina when a nice British couple – he looked like a distracted scientist and she with hippy-style long white hair – popped in asking if my house was a guesthouse... Read the full post

I'm woken by a cow. I don't mean a sloppy cow lick has woken me from my slumbers or anything, it's just that rush hour has started in the High Atlas Mountains and a bovine has announced quite forcefully that it is on its way to work... Read the full post

In January 1913, a cable car made its inaugural journey over a relatively low mountain ridge in the Swiss Alps between the neighbouring towns of Engelberg and Gerschnialp. To celebrate this historic landmark event, a new landmark has been erected on the summit slopes of Mount Titlis...

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This really has to be the ultimate sightseeing trip. Clambering onto an open platform and being lowered deep inside the magma chamber of a volcano. Sounds crazy perhaps – but that’s exactly what you can do in Iceland this year.

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First the devastating floods, and now snow and ice. I suppose there's no use denying that winter is well and truly here. Such weather conditions make it difficult, to say the least, for people who work on the land and for those who use footpaths on a daily basis as a matter of course. Not to make light of recent problems, but it curtails walking as a leisure activity, too, though for many this is more than just 'leisure' - it's a passion that needs satisfying.

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