Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Dubrovnik has emerged as the absolute jewel in the crown of Croatia’s flourishing tourist industry.

Whoever decided that Sintra can be see in a day is either the world’s most thankless traveller or superhuman. In any case, they are very, very wrong.

Budapest is one of those European hubs that inevitably makes it into anyone’s Euro-trip itinerary for one reason or another.