Get Travel Insider with Simon Calder. A newsletter packed with tips, deals, inspiration, and the latest travel news Get the Travel Insider newsletter with Simon Calder Ghostly shapes jittered in the ...

According to legend, when 15th-century Portuguese explorers happened upon a rugged and foreboding string of islands—less than a week’s sail from the Iberian Peninsula—sailors sequestered themselves on ...

Get Travel Insider with Simon Calder. A newsletter packed with tips, deals, inspiration, and the latest travel news Get the Travel Insider newsletter with Simon Calder The Portuguese island of Madeira ...

With mainland Portugal currently off-limits, it’s an opportunity to visit not-so-sleepy Madeira and its lesser-known little sister, Porto Santo. I am a woman on the edge – literally. I’m sitting in ...

Pull up your maps app and pick a spot in the the Atlantic ocean - not as far west as Bermuda but south of the Azores. It will take some zooming in to locate this tiny, volcanic island, but once you ...

It’s easy to spend a whole day mooching around the capital with its exquisite churches and vast array of bakeries lining the cobbled streets WE’RE winding along mountainous roads in a 4×4 Jeep when ...