Madeira is often referred to as the "Floating Garden of the Atlantic", with the breadth and uniqueness of its flora renowned around the world. Blessed with rich volcanic soil and a warm, subtropical...

For keen amateur botanists, professionally-organised flower holidays offer the opportunity to encounter a vast array of endemic floral species they would not normally have access to. Destinations for...

No country on Earth is more synonymous with wildflowers than Switzerland. Beneath the imposing shadow of its alpine guardians, Jungfrau, Eiger and Monch, the vision of rolling meadows carpeted with...

More than half of the wine produced in France is the product of a wine co-operative or ‘cave coopératives’, and yet many wine lovers ignore this important part of the industry while taking a wine tour...

The first thing that will spring to mind when you see the enchanting towers and turrets of the medieval Château de Sully-sur-Loire is that this must have been the inspiration for Charles Perrault when...

The great city of London has dozens of excellent highlights for the visually impaired. Music lovers, in particular, are well catered for here as the city is bursting at the seams with world-famous...

Claude Monet and Impressionism Claude Monet was the foremost practitioner of impressionism in the nineteenth century and was the de facto leader of the movement. A style characterised by dreamlike...