Easter Island, located deep in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the most isolated and magical places in the world. Steven Rowland comes face to face with the famous Moai statues and contemplates the bigger picture

Lots of everything, jam-packed into a tiny country – that’s the Netherlands, explains Roger St. Pierre

The teeming, never-sleeping metropolis of Sao Paulo has been the wealthiest city in Brazil for a long time. Now, as David Neville Williams discovers, it has finally achieved its dream of becoming the New York of the southern hemisphere

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

Roger St. Pierre introduces ‘The World’s Happiest Nation’

Shanghai, meaning above and sea, is an inordinately fitting name for the city that’s overtaken Rotterdam as the world’s busiest port. Situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai is already China’s largest city. But developments there are about to shift into overdrive

It may be just a three-hour flight from the UK, but Iceland can seem like another world with its apocalyptic scenery, midnight sunshine and platters of pot-roasted puffin, as Jennifer Bradly uncovers

Rome, one of the greatest sightseeing cities in the world, offers a bewildering array of attractions cloaked in a rich tapestry of history and culture

Ian Sclater looks at the economic benefits of Benelux and finds out that three’s good company

The poet Lord Byron once referred to Seville as a city famed for its oranges and women; today’s visitors might add tapas, flamenco, sub-tropical climate and world-renowned festivals to this list. Lucia Cockcroft shows us why this is a city ripe for discovery

Tucked away on the chilly eastern coast of Denmark, Copenhagen is one of Europe’s more diminutive cities and can be crossed on foot in half an hour. Lucia Cockcroft discovers that, like Tom Cruise or the iPod Nano, despite its size it has a lot to offer

With a past boasting more setbacks than a TV repair shop, Poland has done well to join the swelling ranks of vogue weekend destinations cropping up all over Eastern Europe, luring young westerners with bargain flights, stunning scenery and cheap beer, as Paul Evans find out