Category: Islands
Islands of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores) — when to go, sea temperature month by month, and full travel guides.
Ischia: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Ischia Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Ischia is a volcanic island of 62,027 residents sitting 30 kilometres west of Naples in the Tyrrhenian Sea, perched at elevations reaching 789 metres at Monte Epomeo’s summit. First settled by Greeks in the 8th–9th century BCE as Pithekoūsai, it is the largest of the Phlegrean […]
Capri: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Capri Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Capri sits 589 meters above sea level at its highest point and hosts a resident population of 12,903 on just 10.4 square kilometers of dramatic limestone cliffs in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The island has drawn elite visitors since the Roman Republic — Emperor Tiberius built 12 […]
Lavezzi Islands: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Lavezzi Islands Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) The Lavezzi Islands are a wild granite archipelago of roughly 30 islets sitting in the Strait of Bonifacio, just 13 km south of Corsica and 12 km north of Sardinia. Administered by the Commune of Bonifacio since 1982 as a nature reserve, the islands see […]
Cyprus: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Cyprus Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Cyprus is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean at 9,251 km², with a population of 572,929 and a history stretching back over 10,000 years of continuous human settlement. The island sits just 75 km south of Turkey and 105 km west of Syria, making it one […]
Malta: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Malta Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Malta, an archipelago of 316 square kilometres in the central Mediterranean, packs a staggering density of history into a space smaller than many cities — it has been continuously inhabited for over 7,000 years and hosts three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. With a population of 553,214 […]
Île de Port-Cros: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île de Port-Cros Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Île de Port-Cros is France’s smallest national park, covering just 700 hectares and established in 1963 as the first marine national park in continental Europe. The island sits 40 km east of Toulon in the Var department, rising to 194 metres at its highest […]
La Graciosa: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
La Graciosa Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) La Graciosa is a tiny volcanic island of just 734 permanent residents sitting 2 km north of Lanzarote across the Strait of El Río, at 266 m elevation at its highest point. It belongs to Spain’s Canary Islands and forms the heart of the Chinijo […]
El Hierro: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
El Hierro Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) El Hierro, the smallest of Spain’s eight inhabited Canary Islands at just 268 km², sits at 1,501 metres above sea level at its highest peak, Malpaso, and holds a population of 11,806 souls across its rugged volcanic terrain. Declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1947 […]
La Gomera: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
La Gomera Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) La Gomera is a volcanic Canary Island covering 370 km² in the Atlantic Ocean, sitting just 28 km west of Tenerife with a population of 22,436. The island rises to 1,487 meters at Alto de Garajonay, cloaking its peaks in a UNESCO-listed laurisilva cloud forest […]
La Palma: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
La Palma Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) La Palma, the most northwesterly of the Canary Islands, sits at a dramatic elevation peaking at 2,426 metres above sea level and is home to just 85,104 residents across its 708 square kilometres. Known as ‘La Isla Bonita’, this compact Spanish island punches far above […]
Lanzarote: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Lanzarote Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Lanzarote is a volcanic island of 163,467 residents sitting just 125 km off the African coast, making it the easternmost and most otherworldly of Spain’s Canary Islands. Declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993, it enforces strict building height limits — no structure taller than two […]
Fuerteventura: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Fuerteventura Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Fuerteventura, the second-largest Canary Island at 1,660 km², sits just 97 km off the Northwest African coast and holds UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status since 2009. With a resident population of 127,043, it punches well above its weight as one of Europe’s premier wind and kite-surfing destinations, […]