“Marco.” “Polo.” These are two words that travellers might expect to hear when lounging at hotel pools as children play the popular water tag game. Hearing “Marco Polo” while walking the cobblestone ...

I’m all for teaching children a few foreign words on holiday... but I had to work extra hard on ­pronunciation for this trip. Not least with the local wines. My vowel-mangling at dinner meant that ...

Despite its proximity to popular tourist destinations like Dubrovnik, Split and Hvar, this 276 square-kilometre island remains relatively unknown and less frequented by tourists. Korcula is a small ...