All posts tagged "holidays"
-
13TravelFrom a feisty goddess to stone phalluses: why Turkey’s Temple of Artemis is my wonder of the world | Turkey holidays
Sitting on the Giza plateau, in the butter-light of sunset, I was asked by Mahmoud (owner of a camel called Michael Jordan)...
-
11BeautyWhat Beauty Experts Are Gifting for the Holidays
We know it’s hard to find the right gifts for your loved ones, so we’ve compiled a ton of fashion and beauty-focused...
-
131Featured‘I slept in ditches and dreamed of marauding raiders’: a wild walk on the Hadrian’s Wall path | Walking holidays
Hadrian’s Wall has perhaps the most single-minded personality of all the National Trails, tracing as it does the 84 miles from Bowness-on-Solway...
-
45Featured‘A wild swimmer’s paradise’: the beach on top of a Yorkshire moor | United Kingdom holidays
Gaddings Dam was built as a mill pond in about 1833, when the Industrial Revolution positioned West Yorkshire and the north of...
-
322FeaturedAn arty stay in cider land: a brush with the Somerset countryside | Somerset holidays
Frost tints the landscape silver as we set up our easels in the watery morning sunlight. On the horizon is Burrow Hill,...
-
11FeaturedMy mission? A two-day voyage along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes for a chip shop | Sailing holidays
The water glitters, rippled by a rising wind, and Victorious glides silently on three huge, maroon sails. We’re the only boat in...
-
24Featured‘The hike of a lifetime’ – a circuit of the Écrins national park in France | France holidays
I first learned about the Écrins national park in relation to a specific nature reserve within it. The réserve intégrale du Lauvitel...
-
35Featured‘I was not ready for this jaw-dropping place’: readers’ favourite travel discoveries of 2024 | Europe holidays
Perfect pastry in Europe’s surfing capital, Portugal Sweet, soft, crispy, satisfyingly dense yet fluffy – we have found the perfect pastry. It’s...
-
18Featured‘At the top it’s a different world, crisp and pure’: readers’ favourite winter walks | Walking holidays
Winning tip: Lake District highs and Hows Starting with a forest climb, the ascent of Tom Gill’s tumbling waterfalls sets the scene...
-
271FeaturedHappy new you! 10 of the best UK wellbeing retreats for 2025 | Health and fitness holidays
Mountain retreat, Monmouthshire At the foot of Skirrid Mountain near Abergavenny, Wonderful Escapes is a converted 16th-century farm that now welcomes guests...
-
16FeaturedPottering in the Potteries: exploring the museums and ceramics studios of Stoke-on-Trent | Staffordshire holidays
As a lump of damp clay spins frantically on the potter’s wheel, I tentatively ease my fingers around it, hoping it will...
-
23Featured‘A lesson like no other’: readers’ favourite learning holidays | Travel
Rail, sail and learn to surf in Portrush, County Antrim We took the train to Birkenhead then overnight ferry (new Stena boat...
-
361FeaturedGive and take: I went on a volunteering holiday in Dorset – and learned stone masonry in return | Volunteering holidays
I climb the ladder leading to the scaffold tower and haul myself on to the platform, followed by the bucket of cement...
-
10FeaturedPembrokeshire’s wild north by train, bus and bike | Wales holidays
In Welsh mythology, Llŷr is the god of the sea. In his latest incarnation – a shimmering five-metre seahorse, keeping watch from...
-
18FeaturedDreaming of the sun: readers look ahead to summer holidays in Europe and beyond | Beach holidays
Secret corner of Sardinia Santa Lucia, on Sardinia’s north-east coast and part of the Siniscola municipality, has lovely beach bars, restaurants and...
-
7FeaturedA love letter to Patmos: the most serene of all the Greek islands | Greece holidays
Of all the Greek islands, Patmos is easily the most serene to me. Although a little smaller in area than, say, Cambridge...
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25297335/STK259_MICROSOFT_COPILOT__C.jpg?w=300&resize=300,180)
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25297335/STK259_MICROSOFT_COPILOT__C.jpg?w=80&resize=80,80)
