As the train curves around the tracks, the mountains grow higher and closer. The valley narrows, with steep limestone rocks on both sides, clusters of pine trees and a rushing river below, which the train runs alongside.

The crossbill is a finch named for the distinctive, crossing tips of its bill. At first glance, it looks like a regular bird with a weird beak, but there’s more to it than meets the eye.

Stepping off the plane, a warm rush of hot air pressed against my face. It was a sensation at once exhilarating and calming, and one I hadn’t felt in three years.

Trade unions representing cabin crew of Ryanair plan a strike later in June in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe, increasing disruption for passengers to and from Belgium during a peak holiday weekend and a European Union summit.

A group of restaurants on the popular holiday island of Mallorca have banned tourists wearing certain clothes associated with “drunken tourism”.

London’s Gatwick Airport is reducing the number of daily flights during its busy summer period to help tackle staffing issues.

While delays at Dublin Airport caused some 1,400 people to miss flights on May 29, and the airport experience is far from what it was in 2019, almost all passengers are at least getting away.

Disney’s latest travel offering is an extravagant, round-the-world trip to all 12 of its theme parks that comes with a hefty price tag.

Ryanair cabin staff in Portugal and Italy plan to strike in late June, Reuters reports.

A new budget airline in Australia is the latest to swap stuffy traditional flight attendants’ uniforms for a more contemporary approach.

It was supposed to be a summer of revenge travel. But in many ways, it looks like a summer of travel discontent.

Unions representing some of Ryanair's Spanish cabin staff have said they’ll strike on six days in late June and early July. The news means potential disruption for tourists to Spain in what is traditionally one of the busiest times of the year as schools break for summer and the risk of knock on pressure on Europe’s already strained aviation sector.

Stuck for staycation ideas? How about “Ireland’s first floating hot tub”?

Dublin Airport passengers have been left without their luggage for more than a week as ground crews struggle to come to terms with the fallout from massive queues and delays.

If it’s been a while since you last visited Tramore, it might be time to take another look at the seaside town long associated with bucket-and-spade holidays, old-school amusements and a food offering limited to fish and chips.

Inny Strand, Co Kerry

Readers may remember Wineport Lodge as the venue for popular celebrity cooking TV show The Restaurant.

I’ve found a passport that doesn’t involve a stressful application, and a holiday without queues. It won’t whisk you overseas, but it might just bring you a surprising short break here in Ireland.

The Biden administration will drop its pre-departure Covid-19 test requirement for international air travel from 00.01am on Sunday, June 12, according to a senior administration official.

As children grow older, holidays become less about keeping them entertained and safe, and more about preventing their boredom ruining the trip for the rest of the family.

The long-awaited post-lockdown travel boom is rapidly turning into a bust for holidaymakers as Europe's aviation industry struggles to overcome crippling staff shortages and labour strife, forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights ahead of the peak summer period.

Long lines at Madrid Barajas Airport should ease as police work on hiring more staff to deal with the surge in tourism following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, the Spanish government said.

Poor Bono, you might think. Now he has to queue for flights like the rest of us.

The Platinum service at Dublin airport has been closed until further notice for ‘new bookings’.

Spain has scrapped its Covid-19 entry requirements for travellers arriving from the EU or Schengen area.

The Limerick Greenway has welcomed over 500,000 visits since reopening last year following a €10 million investment by Limerick City and County Council.

RYANAIR has announced what it calls its “biggest ever” Irish winter schedule, with 156 routes from Ireland now timetabled for winter 2022/23.

IRELAND'S highest cost rail line is making a determined effort to boost passenger numbers and slash operating expenditure.

Emergency measures introduced at Dublin Airport helped avoid any repeat of flight chaos during the opening of the June bank holiday travel rush - with pressure on airport bosses set to be eased by an 11pc reduction in overall flight numbers for the Saturday departure peak.

Passengers have described queues at Dublin Airport as ‘quick and painless’ as the DAA security is taking less than 10 minutes, with more than 300 flights are scheduled as the bank holiday exodus begins.

Long wait times and missed flights are currently causing uproar in Dublin Airport, with some people waiting up to four hours in queues.

DAA chief Dalton Philips said he does not envisage a repeat of last Sunday this weekend as he stood before the Oireachtas Transport Committee.

Slogging through the daily grind, it’s natural to build up the summer holidays and create a vision where everything is perfect and easy.

As the pandemic raged in 2020, the DAA – like most other businesses – had stark choices to make.

DAA chief Dalton Philips said he does not envisage a repeat of last Sunday this weekend as he stood before the Oireachtas Transport Committee today.

Passengers at Dublin Airport will have to keep removing laptops, iPads, liquids, aerosols and baby food from their luggage for another 12 to 18 months, until new, more sophisticated baggage scanners are installed, the Irish Independent can reveal.

Holidaymakers are heading into peak season, and airports worldwide are struggling to cope.

Holidaymakers are heading into peak season, and airports worldwide are struggling to cope.

DAA chief Dalton Philips flew through the airport's VIP service and queued for less than an hour last Saturday as thousands of customers missed their flights over the weekend.

Italy has now joined a number of European countries in dropping all Covid-related travel restrictions.

Italy has now joined a number of European countries in dropping all Covid-related travel restrictions.

Britain's Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has told airlines to stop selling tickets for flights they cannot staff after a spate of airline cancellations caused widespread disruption for holidaymakers.

Many Irish people will be taking their first summer holiday abroad since 2019 this year. After two years of Covid uncertainty, some sun, sea and scenery are to the forefront of the mind.

Las Vegas chapels of love that use Elvis Presley’s likeness could find themselves becoming Heartbreak Hotels.

More travellers have described the chaotic scenes at Dublin Airport on Sunday as thousands experienced delays and missed flights.

Airlines worldwide cancelled more than 1,500 flights on Monday, according to flight tracking company FlightAware, after cancelling 1,642 on Sunday.

TRAVEL is stretched, passengers are stressed, and it all came to a head at Dublin Airport this weekend.

Dublin Airport will head into the busy June Bank Holiday with security staff levels at just 70pc of where they were before the pandemic in 2019.

Staycationers are being asked to fork out as much as €1,500 for a 4-star hotel for two people on a two-night break, as hotel accommodation prices sky-rocket during the summer months.

“If someone says to you ¡Que te den morcilla!, it’s not a good thing,” says my guide Rosalía, animatedly. I don’t understand. How could someone wishing that you are given a morcilla (Spanish black pudding) be a bad thing?