Russia is known to business travellers for its vibrant cities, but Catherine Quinn discovers why the surrounding countryside is also prime location for incentive trips and breathtaking escapes

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David Neville Williams examines the growth in the Whale watching and looks at some of the bet sites around the globe to witness these acrobatic, singing leviathans of the deep

Straight off the back of Euro 2008, and with a focus that goes beyond banking, Roger St. Pierre looks at the prospects for the vibrant little country at the heart of Europe

Ginny McGrath learns snowkiting from a pro in Switzerland and finds it the green alternative to heli skiing

Know as Europe’s hottest city, both for its location on a geothermal ridge and its pulsating night life, Iceland’s capital is in the midst of an economic renaissance and a business trip there provides the perfect excuse to sample some clean living. David Neville Williams enjoys a fjord fiesta

At the end of the last ice age, as polar caps retreated, the Sami were so enamoured with the ice that they followed it all the way north and still dwell there today, in the Sápmi region of Scandinavia. The haunting spirituality with which the wilderness affects the populace should not be underestimated; to understand […]

On an isolated rock constantly contorting between ice and fire, Reykjavik appears to thrive against the odds with weird and wonderful citizens that have one foot in the ancient Viking sagas and the other in the cities trendy clubs and bars. Indeed, the Friday night runtur – a wild pub crawl around the compact city […]

A low-lying peninsula surrounded by the North and Baltic seas, Denmark is very much a maritime nation with a strong shipping industry. Yet with few natural resources to exploit it has been forced to invest highly in infrastructure and develop a highly skills-based economy. The result is a nation with the highest per-capita GDP in […]