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• ‘Living proof damaged landscapes can recover’: exploring a vast restored forest in southern Sweden

  13-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Söderåsen national park is one of Europe’s largest protected broadleaf woods, offering wild swimming, spectacular hiking trails and an inspiring story of regenerationFrom the bus window, the ridge looks like a giant slumbering beast stretched deep green across the flat farmland. “It feels alive,” I say to the woman beside me. “Yes,” she answers. “It is where you would run for safety, don’t you think?”I am in southern Sweden to explore S&
  
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• Katendrecht: Rotterdam’s sailors’ quarter reinvented as cultural hub

  12-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  The regeneration of historic warehouses has transformed this former red-light district into one of the port city’s most vibrant areasA thin peninsula just south of Rotterdam’s centre, Katendrecht was once at the heart of the world’s busiest port, home to continental Europe’s first Chinatown and a lively sailors’ quarter. Its later reputation as a red light district has been shrugged off – part of the city’s wider reinvention in the aftermath of extensive
  
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• In the footsteps of the Victorians on the Isle of Man

  11-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Steam trains, horse-drawn trams and glorious coastal paths are all part of the adventure on a new self-guided walking tour of the islandOn the shores of Douglas Bay, I could barely see the sand. Crammed on to the beach, on every available inch, were tourists bustling for the best spot. Luckily, I wasn’t there at the same time. I was looking at a black and white photograph taken some 135 years earlier, displayed in the Manx Museum in Douglas, the Isle of Man’s capital. When I’d
  
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• Tell us about your favourite lesser-known European island

  10-08-2026 16:50 via Travel | The Guardian
  Share a travel tip on an island escape – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakFor a true sense of getting away from it all, few things rival an island escape. We’d love to hear about your favourite under-the-radar islands in Europe, whether it’s a remote Scandinavian archipelago or an airport-free Mediterranean outpost that’s managed to avoid the package holiday crowds.The best tip of the week, chosen by Tom Hall of Lonely Planet wins a £200 voucher
  
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• A slow, boozy bus tour of Hungary’s secret vineyards

  10-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  The spa town of Balatonfüred is a bucolic gem for sailors, hikers … and wine lovers. A new hop-on, hop-off bus tour offers a chance to get a taste of its little-known wineriesThe 90-minute train journey south-west from Budapest to the spa town of Balatonfüred unveils a landscape that segues from gritty industrial compounds to long sweeps of golden sunflowers and fields of pale grain. The carriage is pleasingly retro, with thick velour upholstery; windows that open, awkwardly, wi
  
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• ‘I lose all sense of time in the hypnotic flow’: five writers on their favourite British rivers

  09-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  From the source to the sea, our writers share their favourite ways to immerse themselves in nature by paddleboarding, canoeing, camping, walking and fishingIt’s early afternoon on an unusually hot and sunny Yorkshire day. I’m standing on my paddleboard on the tidal section of the River Esk, near Whitby’s New Bridge, as cars stream across. The 28-mile-long Esk is special, as it is the only major river in Yorkshire that flows directly into the North Sea. Continue readin
  
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• ‘I haven’t felt this present for months’: sail back in time on a Thames barge in Essex

  08-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  You don’t have to be a sailor to cruise the estuaries of Essex on this historic craft. The skipper will show you the ropes – or just sit back and enjoy the rideIn a darkened room in Maldon, Essex, a ship’s lantern illuminates the laundry drying on a web of ropes suspended from the ceiling. Between piles of sailing memorabilia, 86-year-old Barry Pearce is flipping through a yellowing logbook, watched by his mongrel, Winkle. It feels more like a ship’s cabin than a terrace
  
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• How to explore Britain and Ireland’s most beautiful rivers on foot, bike or boat: readers’ travel tips

  07-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Our rivers may be running low at the moment, but they still offer an abundance of adventure and nature to explore. Here are your favourites, from the Tees to the Shannon
  • Tell us about a favourite holiday in the UK – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherLast summer, I enjoyed a six-mile walk along the fast-flowing River Wharfe from Ilkley to Bolton Abbey, with calming vistas of the Yorkshire Dales every step of the way. I set out at Ilkley’s Riverside Gardens on the so
  
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• Summer on the Baltic: a laidback coastal adventure in Lithuania

  06-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  With great beaches, culture and nature, the resort town of Palanga and the wild Curonian Spit offer an affordable – and cooler – alternative to the MedThe water off Palanga’s sandy white beach is tinged pale green – the colour of the feathery clouds of Furcellaria lumbricalis that occasionally brush against my calves. Underfoot, the Baltic seabed is ridged, the sea so clear and shallow that every ripple is visible. The water deepens very gradually – making it ideal
  
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• Catch of the day: a seafood safari on France’s culinary coast

  05-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  From Calais to Le Touquet, the Côte d’Opale is home to thriving fishing ports, grand old seaside resorts and restaurants serving the freshest seafoodStellio Lestienne, chef at La Matelote in Boulogne’s harbour, shows me his shopping list as we browse the city’s daily morning fish market. He wants to pick up some crab and sole, which are in season, but his usual lobster fisher is still out on his boat, so he’ll have to wait a bit for that. Although I’ve been a
  
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• The Scottish explorer who fancied an adventure closer to home: hiking the Highlands’ Affric Kintail Way

  04-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Globetrotter and TV presenter Alice Morrison trades in her camels and backup team for wild camping in one of Scotland’s most beautiful glens‘I miss my camels. I miss the sun. I miss the vast emptiness of the desert plains …” These are my thoughts as I trudge through thick conifer plantations and my fifth consecutive hour of rain at the start of the Affric Kintail Way in the Scottish Highlands.My last big adventure was a world first. I became the first recorded person to
  
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• Tell us about your favourite UK holiday

  03-08-2026 16:18 via Travel | The Guardian
  Share a travel tip on a great break you’ve had in the UK – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakYou don’t always have to travel far from home to have an adventure or a truly memorable break. We want to hear about your favourite holiday in the UK – particularly in more under-the-radar destinations, such as less-visited beach resort, a town that deserves to be noticed or in a remote area of coutryside. Or perhaps it involved a fun or unusual activity that h
  
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• 10 of Britain’s best piers for dining, nightlife and good old seaside fun

  03-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  From Blackpool to Bournemouth, these quintessentially British institutionscelebrate a lot more than fish and chips and amusement arcadesPerched in our glass-fronted eyrie, 300 metres out to sea, we watch a murmuration of starlings rise and fall and swoop around us. When the show is over, we turn our attention to the food. I have a bespoke vegan menu based on the best early summer ingredients: jersey royals, asparagus, strawberries. My boyfriend orders off the weekly changing à la carte: s
  
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• ‘Poirot’s hotel was the place to stay in Istanbul’: the book that inspired my travels

  02-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Falling in love with a novel motivated these five travel writers to immerse themselves in locations from the Yukon and Kyrgyzstan to the Côte d’AzurInspired by Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express Continue reading...
  
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• Exploring Rabat, Morocco – this year’s Unesco World Book Capital

  01-08-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Rabat is a gorgeous seaside city with great food and culture, but for book lovers there’s an added incentive to go this yearThe first book I read willingly was Bridget Jones’s Diary. I was 19. Up to that point, I hadn’t been much of a reader. I’d been more into football, or Baywatch, or Robin Budd in the year above – anything really. Given the choice between reading a book and staring at a wall, I would have plumped for the latter.After finishing my A-levels, I work
  
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• Literary escapes: your favourite trips inspired by books

  31-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  From Dervla Murphy’s Northern Ireland to Elena Ferrante’s Naples, readers share the stories that inspired them to travel
  • Tell us about a trip to Europe’s lakes and mountains – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherInspired by Dervla Murphy’s A Place Apart Continue reading...
  
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• My slow Swedish summer on the tranquil islands of Östergötland

  30-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Small boats and kayaks connect the sparse communities and flourishing wildlife living on the thousands of islets on the Baltic coastAt 5am on Arkösund bay, it is so light it could be midday. I slip out of the pretty clapboard Arkösunds hotell, opened in 1895, as a small boat putters into the Baltic Sea, the sun sparkling on its calm waters. A wooden boardwalk invites me on to a string of tiny islets as geese arrow overhead and a mother swan coaxes her fluffy cygnets into a nook under a
  
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• San Lorenzo: Rome’s rebel neighbourhood shaped by resistance, art and students

  29-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  This overlooked quarter swaps the grandeur of tourist-saturated central Rome for murals, graffiti, cheap eateries and a working-class rhythmOne of Europe’s hotspots, central Rome has increasingly come to resemble a tube station during rush hour: stifling, overpacked and claustrophobia-inducing. Last year, the Eternal City welcomed a record number of tourists, driven in part by the 2025 Vatican Jubilee - 22.9 million arrivals stayed in the city, almost 10 times the number of residents. Cont
  
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• A family tour de France: cycling and camping in Normandy with two toddlers

  28-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  Ebikes with child seats – plus idyllic campsites and pit stops en route – turn a five-day ride on the car-free Véloscénic into a wonderful family holiday“Are you mad?” says a fellow guest over dinner at our campsite. “I heard you’re here on a long-distance cycle ride with your toddlers.”I am in Orne, a region in Normandy, with my sister Issy and our three-year-old sons, Sid and Ralph. The landscape folds around us in green-over-green &ndash
  
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• Tell us about a trip to the lakes and mountains of Europe

  27-07-2026 15:01 via Travel | The Guardian
  Share a tip on your favourite mountain or lakeside summer break in Europe – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakEurope’s lakes and mountains have seen a huge surge in summer tourism in recent years, as holidaymakers look for alternatives to the crowded coastal resorts of the Med. Whether it’s a walking holiday in the Tirol, a lakeside cabin stay in Scandinavia, or a spectacular train journey through the Alps, we’d love to hear about your favourite experi
  
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• In search of Valencia’s ‘white gold’: my hunt for the perfect horchatería

  27-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Horchata, the revered creamy drink made from tiger nuts, is still served in grand Valencian parlours – always accompanied by sugar-glazed pastriesIt was a glimpse of an old couple sharing a tender moment in the bustling horchatería that drew me into one of Valencia’s most storied culinary traditions. As he sipped his milky horchata de chufa and a white crescent moon appeared on his coiffed moustache, they shared a soft laugh and she dabbed it away from his upper lip.“The
  
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• ‘It’s like bringing the kitchen into the piazza’: seven of the best Italian village food festivals

  26-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Sagre – the historic local events that pop up in villages across the country in summer – are the perfect way to get a taste of regional cuisine and cultureI cannot remember a summer when at least one evening hasn’t been spent following signs to a local sagra. Not quite a food market and not quite a village fete, a sagra is like a village moving its kitchen outdoors for a few nights.When I think back to those nights from childhood, the first image that comes to mind is of a
  
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• ‘We can see the boats that supply the restaurant’s lobsters from our seats’: a culinary tour of Gower, Wales

  25-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  On a coastline brimming with seafood shacks, crab sandwiches and hyperlocal flavour, our food writer is happy to be distracted from the stunning sceneryIf we take it as read that the better the view, the worse the cooking, then by rights south Wales’s Gower peninsula should be a culinary desert. The first time I visited almost 15 years ago, I was unprepared for its loveliness – back in 1956, Gower (never the Gower, as locals were quick to correct me) was the first place in the UK to
  
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• Burnham urged to lobby EU leaders directly to waive EES border controls

  24-07-2026 14:14 via Travel | The Guardian
  Lib Dems call on PM to push for suspension of ‘bungled, malfunctioning’ system as overseas holiday travel peaksAndy Burnham has been urged to lobby EU leaders directly to suspend the new entry-exit system, EES, as the peak weekend for overseas holidays begins.About 2.2 million British holidaymakers are expected to head abroad between Friday and Monday, the majority to Europe, with all schools in the UK now on their summer break. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Full of zesty colour and flavour’: readers’ favourite food festivals in Europe

  24-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  From the Tiramisù World Cup in Italy to street food ‘battles’ in Newcastle, your culinary highlights range from the sublime to the delicious
  • Tell us about a book that inspired you to travel – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays break
  The town of Menton on the French Riviera is beautiful at any time of the year but becomes even more of a treat during the annual Lemon festival (Fête du Citron, 10-28 February 2027). Its microclimate, courtesy of th
  
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• Why Scotland’s cinematic Moray coast made it a perfect location to shoot The Odyssey

  23-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  ‘Legends cling like barnacles to these shores,’ says our local writer, who reveals how the lore of these craggy cliffs and beaches resonates with the Homeric classicThe incoming tide has made a labyrinth of the beach. As silvery rivulets spread across Culbin Sands to meet the mudflats, my walk becomes increasingly circuitous: weaving inland towards the pine forest, backtracking closer to the waves, skirting tidal pools and scaling dunes constantly resculpted by the North Sea breeze.I
  
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• ‘Humans are designed to connect outdoors’: community hiking in Slovakia’s High Tatras

  22-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  A walking holiday with a group of strangers to the highest range in the Carpathians promises adventure, stunning views and camaraderieWe are giddy as we reach the summit, breathless with exertion and a guileless, childlike joy. In every direction the jagged peaks of Slovakia’s High Tatras stretch out into the distance, nubs on a colossal spine, glittering lakes embedded like shards of glass far below the rocky, ice-streaked slopes. An eagle wheels above. Somewhere on the lunar landscape a
  
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• Exploring Germany’s East Frisian islands: mudflats, marshes and millions of birds

  21-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  The seven inhabited isles off the North Sea coast, part of a Unesco world heritage site, are a sanctuary for wildlife – with great hotels and restaurants too‘Can you hear that?” my guide Andrea Wellmeyer asks as I sink a little deeper into the wet ground, cold mud seeping between my toes. When the wind drops, I detect a faint but distinct crackling, similar to the rustle of a sweet wrapper or the bubbling of sparkling water. “That’s the Wattknistern,” she says
  
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• Tell us about your favourite river or canal in the UK or Ireland

  20-07-2026 16:33 via Travel | The Guardian
  Share your tip on a fun or fabulous waterway activity – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakThere are few pastimes more relaxing than messing about on the river. Whether it’s paddling along an urban waterway, navigating a historic canal in a narrowboat, spotting the wildlife on an estuary walk, or a towpath bike ride, we’d love to hear how you like to spend time on your favourite river or canal in the UK or Ireland.The best tip of the week, chosen by Tom Hall
  
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• A Canterbury trail: my pilgrimage from the cathedral to the white cliffs of Dover

  20-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  After exploring the cathedral city, I battled the heatwave while walking to the Kent coast on the Via FrancigenaCanterbury for Evensong. Is there a more delightful cluster of syllables in the English language? Old English, I should say, as æfensang comes from that tongue, an update on the Latin-derived “vespers”. But whatever you call the service, Canterbury Cathedral does it in style. How beautiful the singing from the choristers in their white and purple. How beautiful the li
  
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• No car? No problem! Six cheap family days out in England by bus

  19-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  With bus fares capped at £3 and free for kids in August, it’s the ideal time for wildlife watching, woodland walks, world-class art and moreTrips to waterfalls, gardens, galleries, medieval forests and prehistoric caves will make the long school holidays a lot more fun. To help families explore affordably, throughout August buses in England will be free for kids and adult fares will be capped at £3 single. Or, if you arrive somewhere by train, you could buy a PlusBus ticket, wh
  
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• 20 brilliant UK family days out for summer

  18-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  From 100,000 sunflowers in Gower and cosmic art in Galloway to a bat safari and messing about in boats, there’s enough here to keep you and the kids busy till SeptemberAt the westernmost tip of the Gower peninsula, Rhossili Bay is a gloriously wide sweep of sand, backed by dunes and licked with waves perfect for bodyboarding and surfing. Wild ponies graze on the southern headland, while walkers time their trip across to the serpent-like Worm’s Head promontory to not get cut off by th
  
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• ‘Adventures with a touch of magic’: readers’ favourite family days out in the UK

  17-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  From a boat tour in Northern Ireland to a farm with great ice-cream in Surrey, you share your top tips for day tripsThe MV Kestrel has been taking boat tours out from Enniskillen on Lower Lough Erne for as long I can remember. We were brought out as primary schoolchildren on a geography field trip and I was recently a passenger for a civilised stag party. It’s popular for a reason: the tour (adults £15, under-12s £11) passes the old alma mater of Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett
  
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• Where tourists seldom tread, part 21: two northern powerhouses on the rise once more

  16-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Preston and St Helens were heartbeats of the industrial age, but their power faded. In the last of our series, we discover how their legacy is finally being celebratedWhere tourists seldom tread, parts 1-20This double act of “Lancashire” locations is my final celebration of Britain’s bypassed towns. My native county has dominated my life of late, and one key question asked in these columns has been: can you holiday right at home?The French author Xavier de Maistre believed you
  
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• Sail away to the Côte d’Opale: a watery adventure in northern France

  15-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  A catamaran service from Dover to Boulogne is the perfect start to a trip exploring the Pas-de-Calais and marshes of Saint-Omer by bike, boat and kayak“It’s all about tuning into the culture of the sea,” helmsman Chris O’Brien tells me, scanning the rippling cobalt horizon from the wheel of a catamaran. “People find the water, and the meditative experience of sailing, healing.” Meditative isn’t a word that usually comes to mind when talking about cross-C
  
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• A family group walking holiday in Exmoor: steam trains, tree climbing and lashings of ice-cream

  14-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Would walking buddies convince reluctant children that hiking can be fun? A group trip with an Enid Blyton vibe proved a hit with the whole family“I’m not going to wake her up,” I hiss at my 12-year-old son who’s standing half naked in a dark corridor of a Victorian house. “Please, Mum. She said we could come at any time! I don’t want to get Lyme disease,” he begs.This is not the kind of drama I was expecting when I signed up to a family walking holiday
  
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• Share a tip on a book that inspired you to travel

  13-07-2026 16:05 via Travel | The Guardian
  Tell us about a favourite read that led you to visit a new place or go on an adventure – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakA great novel can transport you to places you’ve never been, take you on imaginary adventures across the globe and, just occasionally, inspire you to visit a literary location in real life. We’d love to hear about a book you’ve read that led to one of your favourite trips, whether it was somewhere far-flung or close to home.The bes
  
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• My search for the perfect ruin bar in Budapest

  13-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  These cool, cheap bars in old abandoned buildings became popular in the 2000s – and then tourists moved in. I went hunting for the bohemian spirit of the originals‘Many ruin bars seem to be just tourist traps now,” says artist István, standing outside Instant-Fogas complex, which calls itself Europe’s biggest ruin pub, but looks more like a mammoth nightclub with several dancefloors.“These bars were a hot topic 20 years ago, but many have become really c
  
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• Denmark’s ‘Cold Hawaii’: the artfully cool surf zone on the Jutland coast

  12-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Surfers nicknamed it in the 90s, but this rugged coastline is becoming a hotspot for contemporary art lovers tooThe North Sea wind is buffeting my body and face, shaking me awake after a six-hour journey from Copenhagen on buses and trains to this rugged stretch of the Danish coast. From my high vantage point on the grassy dunes, overlooking what feels like an endless sea, there is hardly another soul to be seen, save for the specks of a few surfers who are trying their luck on the crashing wave
  
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• Summer on the Slovenian Riviera

  11-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  The country’s coastline is one of the shortest in Europe, but it packs a punch with unspoilt nature reserves, vibrant Venetian towns and a thriving foodie scene I’m riding a salt-coloured horse through the Dragonja valley, deep in the green hills of Slovenian Istria. Electric-blue dragonflies zip over the river as we gallop past olive trees and vineyards. The landscape rises steeply in a series of grassy terraces, and at the top of the hill we rein in the sweating horses to take in t
  
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• ‘As if I was on a Greek island, but without the stifling heat’: readers’ favourite cooler European coasts

  10-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  From the Fanad peninsula in Ireland to the forested beaches of Finland, these are your favourite escapes without the fear of getting frazzled
  • Tell us about your favourite food festival – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherSaulkrasti’s long beaches and scented pine forests are an hour from Riga on the frequent local train. The forests come right down to the long, long sandy beach and the relaxing and well-marked trail takes you the 4km from Saulkrasti station through
  
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• A brilliant and bonkers day out: how art and spectacle transformed a former Durham mining town

  09-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  Bishop Auckland is abuzz with culture and family fun, thanks to the vision of Auckland Palace’s owners – and the new Kynren show featuring birds of prey, Viking raids and mythical beasts, which opens next weekBooming Hans Zimmer-style cinematic music reaches a crescendo, shaking my bones. Two turquoise macaws swoop within an inch of my hair and join a sky filled with nearly 250 birds. Hawks, kites, pelicans, and an owl soar and swoop around a pagan-looking wooden circle. Peacocks fus
  
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• Walking in France’s ‘garden of Eden’: a new route in the gorgeous Gorges du Tarn

  08-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Europe’s longest and most dramatic canyon is replete with exotic wildlife, including kingfishers and beavers, ruined castles and architectural odditiesWe’re sipping chestnut kir on a terrace overlooking the Tarn River in southern France when we hear excited voices from the table beside us: “Regards! C’est un castor!” Below us, a beaver the length of my leg is languidly swimming upstream. We don’t need our binoculars because the Tarn is so clean that almost eve
  
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• Not just for weekenders: the new Wiltshire country hotel that’s a hit with the locals

  07-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  The owners of Teffont House are aiming for modern rural hospitality that puts guests at the heart of village lifeWalking into the Orangery at Teffont House during the golden hour, the restaurant is glowing. Sunlight falls across cocktails the colour of spun sugar, spills on to a terrace trailing constellations of fleabane, and bounces off spoons sinking into raspberry trifles. What really gives the room its sparkle is none of these things, however, but the fact it’s packed with local peopl
  
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• Tell us about a favourite food festival

  06-07-2026 16:35 via Travel | The Guardian
  Share a tip on your favourite food festival in Europe, including the UK – the best wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakEnjoying the local produce is one of the great pleasures of travel – and a trip that coincides with a food festival is a win-win. We’d love to hear about foodie festivals you’ve discovered on holiday in Europe or the UK – from tiny village affairs to well-established events that draw the crowds, tell us where you went, what you ate and why it w
  
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• Crete treats: a chef’s tour of her favourite Greek island

  06-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  The island has a culinary tradition as old as its ancient olive trees. Our writer savours its family-run tavernas, village bakeries and local produceAs someone with Cypriot roots and distant Greek heritage, I’m often asked the question: which is the best island? People lean in, expecting a secret – some tiny, untouched haven, known only to locals. My answer is always the same: Crete. With its fiercely proud identity, warm communities and exceptional food, it feels both deeply Greek a
  
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• Walk in the footsteps of gods, heroes and monsters: five trips to mythical Greece

  05-07-2026 06:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Discover where supplicants consulted Apollo in Delphi, the infant Hermes hid stolen cattle and where Poseidon created a love nest for a sea nymphSome stories never get old. The poems and songs from Greek mythology – tales of tragedy, love and loss, war and revenge, jealous gods, magic and monsters – have been retold through the ages for good reason. Like all stories that really resonate, they deal in the flawed nature of humankind.To the ancients, though, they were far more than lege
  
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• My very own Greek Odyssey: a sailing trip to the island of Ithaca

  04-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  
  A quest for the settings that inspired Homer – and Hollywood’s latest blockbuster – turned into a personal voyage of discoverySwimming ashore from the boat I can see a narrow shingle beach covered in driftwood. There are logs, bamboo canes and the sundried planks of an old shipwreck. The steep climb up the hill behind is not easy. I skirt thick clumps of thorn and abandoned ancient olive trees, scrambling over jagged outcrops of limestone. Every time I curl my fingers into a ro
  
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• ‘The clearest seas I’ve ever swum in’: readers’ favourite holidays to Greece

  03-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  Beach-hopping, gorge hikes and awesome archaeological sites feature in your best memories of Greece• Tell us about a family day out in the UK – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherWe first noticed Milos as we travelled home from Crete, flying directly above it and deciding that was where we must go next. It didn’t disappoint. The island was calm, peaceful and strikingly beautiful. Milos isn’t well known, but it should be; the true home of the Aphrodite of Melos,
  
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• Cycling Scotland’s lost highways and byways: a two-wheel odyssey in the wilds of Sutherland

  02-07-2026 08:00 via Travel | The Guardian
  In his new book, Jack Thurston cycles the quieter roads and forgotten hill tracks of Scotland, exploring Britain’s most remote and rugged terrainThere aren’t many roads in Britain where you can pull over to cook breakfast and finish it without seeing a single car. While my friend Ben got the stove going, I wandered around the ruins of Dun Dornaigil, an iron age broch (stone roundhouse) more than 2,000 years old. Above us, low cloud drifted across the dark cliffs of Ben Hope. This was
  
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