The travel correspondent of The Independent is rarely sighted away from the fabled city of Samarkand, where he keeps his stable of thoroughbred racing camels.But he switched his attention from the mosques, minarets and dromedaries of the Silk Road hub for an hour to answer your pressing travel issues live.This is the compilation of the key questions and answers.Amber...

Trenitalia, a train operator in Italy, has started a ‘COVID-free’, high-speed train service for the first time in Europe between Rome and Milan. The service began operating twice a day in each direction as an experimental initiative on April 16. If the experiment proves to be successful, the company plans to expand its service to other routes as well, SchengenVisaInfo.com...

Holidays seem just a distant dream for many after the Government announced plans to further tighten coronavirus restrictions. With no end in sight to lockdown, sunseekers feel they won't be able to enjoy a getaway for some months - if at all - during 2021. We have decided to banish the gloom and compile a quiz designed to put...

The holidays are all about good food, good mood, and travelling — a lot of it. This year, the pandemic spoiled many of our plans to see the world, to explore more and simply engage with people and learn about new cultures. And while it has forced us all to go low-key in our celebrations, it has not been...

The spread of coronavirus had led to many countries around the world closing their borders in order to stem the peak of cases. Now, with the virus under control in many European countries, borders have begun to open back up again.With months in lockdown, many Britons may be wondering when they can feasibly fly to holiday destinations.As lockdown restrictions...

Outside the world of geopolitics or even polar travel, it’s probably not common knowledge that Svalbard and Spitsbergen are one in the same.

(CNN) — No one element of my life has required such consistent spontaneity (and solvency) as the College Football Bowl schedule.The appeal is sometimes a mystery. There's the annual displeasure, every December, of not knowing where you'll be going in the next few weeks. Of having to book multiple hotel rooms across several different cities, of having to track...

The legendary Belmond Hotel Cipriani in Venice, Italy. Belmond Belmond has been a key player in the luxury travel industry since acquiring its first property, the legendary Hotel Cipriani in Venice, back in 1976. Now with 46 hotels, river-cruises and luxury trains spanning 24 countries, it’s a hospitality brand people have...

Polar Bears, Pack Ice, and : Pictures from North Spitsbergen

Peter Limberger’s not the first person with some new ideas for the Peru airport.In 1931, Herman Hamer and David Kuhne of Peru, with help from mechanic Julius Corsolini, launched La Salle Peru Airways, offering round-trip flights to Chicago for $10, using one airplane. Limberger has no intentions of starting an airline, but he would like to make charter flights more...