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• Walking up an appetite in Armenia’s Caucasus mountains

  29-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Neighbouring Georgia gets all the attention when it comes to Caucasus adventures and cuisine, but nothing beats the ‘primeval happiness’ of a post-walk feast in Armenia - and there are far fewer trekkersIt’s only a couple of miles up the trail opposite Noravank (new monastery), Armenia’s top tourist draw, but it’s a steep zigzagging slog, especially in summer. Thankfully, the view from the vantage point is more than worth it.Only from a distance is it possible to&nb
  
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• Raptors delight: a bird safari in the Forest of Bowland

  16-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The north of England’s most overlooked natural beauty spot is home to wild terrain and some of the UK’s rarest birds, including the spectacular hen harrierA grey male drifts slowly across the moorland. No, not me, but a big, beautiful hen harrier, scouting for love, or breakfast. I’ve only been here 10 minutes, and I’m in a mild state of shock. Aren’t these precious, threatened birds of prey so vanishingly rare that seeing one is hugely improbable?I’m walking
  
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• ‘A muddy ride into Romania’s dreamy countryside’: cycling the Via Transilvanica

  15-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The challenging 870-mile trail cuts diagonally across Romania and takes in mountain meadows, fairytale forests and medieval monasteriesIt was about seven minutes into my cycle ride that the first signs of addiction became apparent. My ebike’s “power assist” button felt more like a morphine clicker as we climbed the misty hills of Bucovina in northern Romania. Sergiu, my group’s guide, knew what I was up to. “Be honest with yourself – only use ‘turbo&rsqu
  
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• Share a tip on food and drink finds in France

  14-04-2025 15:45 via theguardian.com
  Tell us about a brilliant culinary experience in France – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakThere’s no denying great food and drink make a holiday – and we want to know about your under-the-radar finds in France. Perhaps it was the menu du jour in a hidden bistro in a Paris suburb, wine tasting at a family vineyard in Provence, eating oyster from a shack on the Brittany coast, or an outstanding mountain hut restaurant loved by the locals. Tell us where it wa
  
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• 10 Lisbon restaurants I’d recommend to a friend visiting the city

  14-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A local food writer selects places to eat that offer a flavour of Lisbon’s fast-evolving restaurant sceneThis fun, welcoming restaurant – a renovated tavern with traditional tiled floor in the Santa Apolónia neighbourhood – focuses on the flavours of the Algarve. Chef Bertílio Gomes’s family comes from this southern region, and his seasonal, constantly changing menu features dishes such as octopus with sweet potato and razor-clam soup, which evoke balmy
  
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• The ghostly allure of Dungeness, Kent

  13-04-2025 12:01 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s an arid and mysterious place, yet it’s precisely these charms that captivate visitors – and our writer‘It’s a Marmite place, you either love it or hate it,” says the lady making us coffee at Ness Café, as we gaze across the flat, arid landscape that is Dungeness beach, a chunk of Arizona on the Kent coast. Certainly it’s not for everyone. Some find it too bleak, depressing even. Others lean into it, the endless stretch of shingle and the loom
  
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• What’s new in Portugal? 10 reasons to visit in 2025

  12-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From modern art in Lisbon and yoga on the Algarve to food festivals, coastal hikes, surfing and cycling, it’s all going on in one of Europe’s favourite destinationsThe hilltop town about 40 minutes’ drive from Lisbon is celebrating 30 years of Unesco world heritage status. Sintra was the first European site listed as a cultural landscape, thanks to its fairytale architecture set among lush parks and gardens. There are 30 events taking place throughout the year, especially aimed
  
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• Looking for the authentic Algarve? Go in the low season – and to Tavira

  12-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With wild beaches, gorgeous countryside and delicious seafood, Tavira and its surrounding villages have plenty to offer, even outside summerDusk in Tavira is a masterclass in seduction. On my first evening in the Algarve’s most easterly city – just 18 miles from the border with Spain – tangerine skies smudged by pillowy clouds unfurl above the old town, with its jumble of church towers and terracotta roofs.For such a romantic spectacle, the best vantage point proves to be
  
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• Your favourite bars, beaches, swimming spots and more: readers’ top 10 travel tips on Portugal

  11-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Portugal’s greenest region, an Algarve food truck and a monastery stay on the Camino de Santiago are among our tipsters’ highlightsChus, who owns the local bar where I used to live in Galicia, shuts every September and decamps to Portugal. This entails a journey of 10 miles to the seaside town of Moledo. On his recommendation we caught the ferry across the wide estuary and reached Moledo within 20 minutes. The town beach is sheltered by a fortress island and Monte de Santa Trega. It&
  
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• Prague’s Vietnamese food revolution

  10-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A wave of immigration during the communist years has seen a slow burn for Vietnamese food – from beef noodles to green rice ice-cream – in the Czech Republic’s capitalAn older Asian woman is hunched over a gas burner serving noodles, a young couple in the distance shuffle piously into a tiny Buddhist temple, and a perpetual gaggle of families emerge from a Vietnamese supermarket armed with giant sacks of rice. It is a scene as authentically Vietnamese as I could expect to find.
  
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• Poetry in motion: walking the new Wordsworth Way in the Lake District

  09-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The route follows in the Romantic poet’s footsteps, traces his life and celebrates the landscapes that inspired so much of his work‘Come forth into the light of things,” implored William Wordsworth in his 1798 poem The Tables Turned, extolling the virtues of a good old-fashioned walk in nature. Treading through his homeland of the Lake District more than two centuries later, on a radiant early spring day, sunbeams casting through the bare branches to anoint the daffodils, it&rs
  
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• Anglesey adventure: exploring the treasures of Ynys Môn

  08-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Many dash across this Welsh island en route to Ireland, but it’s worth lingeringto explore its historic houses, pristine beaches and thriving restaurant sceneIn 1826, the opening of Thomas Telford’s Menai Suspension Bridge connected mainland Wales to the island of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) for the very first time. The bridge was critical to creating a fast road link to the port of Holyhead and so improving communication links between London and Dublin.Today, motoring tourists take ad
  
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• Tell us about about a positive community tourism initiative

  07-04-2025 17:34 via theguardian.com
  
  We want to hear about a community-based project or travel company that made your trip memorable. The best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakWhen it comes to planning a trip, how we travel is just as important as where we go – the connections we make, the insights into different cultures and, hopefully, a sense that our visit is having a positive impact on the communities that host us. We’d love to hear about the community tourism initiatives that you’ve encountered o
  
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• Camping in the wild heart of Italy – en suite rooms and fabulous restaurant optional

  07-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In the rugged Maiella national park, a secluded campsite offers everything from pitches to hotel-style rooms, guided walks to Abruzzo hospitalityThere was a shift in atmosphere as a pewter cloud rumbled overhead. As we approached the end of our walk in the Maiella national park, we stopped beside the remains of a second world war prison camp, deep in the park’s corn-coloured hills, and Lisa, our guide, told us a story as dramatic as the simmering sky. In 1943, a band of pris
  
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• To Hades and back: my family holiday in Parga, Greece

  06-04-2025 08:30 via theguardian.com
  With its white sand, sparkling sea, olive groves and echoes of ancient myths, a holiday in Greece’s beautiful Parga makes you very glad to be in the kingdom of the livingThere is a place in western Greece where, in a single day, you can frolic at an all-inclusive resort at breakfast time and then, after lunch, wade through an entrance to the underworld. This is Parga, built over a double-curve bay where the beaches are studded with tasteful tourist attractions, and inland the Acherontas Ri
  
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• The 50 best museum cafes in the UK

  05-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The pioneering V&A tea rooms were designed to draw people into culture, and today such spaces offer more than just sandwiches. Felicity Cloake introduces some of our favouritesAt museums and galleries, the tourist imperative is often to tick off as much as possible, racing around desperately rather than setting aside the equally important time to take stock of it all over coffee and cake. But as well as being a respite from noisy school groups and other people’s opinions, these spaces
  
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• 20 of Europe’s most beautifully located campsites – chosen by experts

  05-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  We asked camping pros to tell us about their favourite sites, from the highest pitches in Switzerland to a wilderness reserve in SwedenPitchup.com lists more than 5,500 campsites in 67 countries. One of the most scenic is the remote Šenkova Domačija farm near Zgornje Jezersko in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, close to the border with Austria. This heritage farmstead dates to 1517 and is surrounded by pastures and peaks. The farm has 25 pitches (including 10 for tents) in a meadow under old
  
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• ‘A stunning campsite with views of the fjords’: readers’ best camping trips in Europe

  04-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From pitching a tent in the haunt of Greek gods to a private beach in Italy’s garden of Eden, our tipsters share their favourite places to sleep under the starsVeganeset Camping (tent pitch from £18 a night) is a stunning campsite in the Norwegian fjords – remote, but an easy drive to the village of Balestrand. The views were to die for, and in the summer there was still some light at midnight. No frills, but good-quality bathrooms. It was the best campsite we found in Norway a
  
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• Paris’s rewilded railway line: the disused track turned into a green space for wildlife and walkers

  03-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Inside the French capital’s ring road, the Petite Ceinture, a disused circular rail line, now abounds with nature trails, shared gardens – and even urban farmsA rustle in the undergrowth sends birds wheeling above the trees and into the sky. I’m left alone and in near total silence as I look along the train tracks that disappear in either direction. It feels as if I’m in the heart of the countryside, but actually, the Boulevard Périphérique, the traffic-chok
  
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• ‘A Med island holiday without the crowds’: family-friendly Corsica

  02-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A holiday park on the lesser-known Côte Orientale offers lower prices, activities for all ages, and secluded sandy beachesI had held out as long as I could, but there was no getting out of it. The catcalls were rising; the baying, cackling audience of under-11s intoxicated by a combination of ice-cream sugar rushes and my obvious, clammy fear. It was day 14 of a two-week summer holiday, and our final afternoon in blissful 30C Corsican sunshine. I just needed one more chapter, lounging with
  
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• 10 of the best wild fishing spots in the UK

  01-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From spinning off the coast of East Sussex to camping a rod’s length from a Scottish loch, the author of a new guide to wild angling chooses beautiful spots to fish affordablyWinchester, Hampshire
  Grayling are prolific along the stretch of the River Itchen between Wharf Mill and City Mill, and offer the best chance of a catch. To be able to fish the River Itchen for free is a gift; this is the same river that Frederic Halford and GEM Skues fished more than 100 years ago, starting fly-fishi
  
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• Share a tip on a special place to eat or drink on the UK coast

  31-03-2025 14:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Tell us about your favourite coastal place to eat and drink– the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakEating fish and chips by the beach, slurping ice-cream close to the waves, sipping cocktails as the sun sets over the sea … a foodie treat always adds to a trip to the seaside. Whether it’s a cool bar right on the beach, a favourite coastal chippie or a great cafe, we’d love to hear about your tasty beside-the-sea discoveries in the UK. Tell us where it is a
  
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• The Danish island of seaweed cottages, salt and seafood

  31-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The remote North Sea isle of Læsø is world-famous for the gastronomic delights that come from its waters – so the best way to explore it is in wadersAfter just 10 minutes in the company of the enigmatic seaweed expert Rie Ladefoged, I’m considering buying a pair of fishing waders. I’m waist deep in the swell and suck of The Kattegat sea off the Danish island of Læsø, armed with a plastic tub and some kitchen scissors, gathering
  
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• Just the ticket: Europe’s 10 best train station hotels for a first-class stay

  30-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Travelling by rail? Treat yourself to a proper arrival at these extra-special hotels, just minutes from the platformYou might think the location is the best thing about this hotel – slap bang next to María Zambrano station – the ideal starting point for a tour of Andalucía’s trio of spectacular cities: Seville, Córdoba and Granada. But the roof terrace is an unexpected win, too, with a sleek outdoor pool, alfresco sofas and loungers for a post-sightseeing s
  
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• Where cider houses rule in Spain: a tour of Asturias

  29-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Loved by the Spanish but less known in the UK, the region is recognised by Unesco for its centuries-old cider culture – and has plenty more to offerAsturias is a place of mossy silence and ocean light, where mountains rise suddenly from the sea. The culture and landscape of the region are deeply intertwined – its ancient rivers are still used to chill bottles of the famed local cider on warm summer days.For much of the world, Asturias remains a mystery, but in the Spanish i
  
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• ‘A beloved figure’: Welsh village ready for tourists as Richard Burton biopic opens

  28-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Events planned in Pontrhydyfen for centenary of actor’s birth, as many recall his visits home with Elizabeth TaylorHardly a day goes by when villagers don’t spot a cinephile traipsing in the footsteps of Richard Burton, peering at his old house, taking in the vista across the valley from the aqueduct, perhaps enjoying a pint in the Miners Arms, where he and Elizabeth Taylor drank on visits back to his south Wales birthplace.The tourist traffic to Pontrhydyfen is likely to increase af
  
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• ‘All around us was the low hum of contented diners’: readers’ favourite places to eat in Europe

  28-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Opulent omelettes, plump scallops and a ‘confessional’ fondue are among our tipsters’ happy culinary memories, from Athens to the AlgarveSarajevo has to be one of the most underrated cities in Europe. A real east-west cultural melting pot with recent raw history, it’s also one of the best places for Bosnian burek, delicious rolls of filled filo pastry that are served up cheap and quick in the cities numerous buregdžinica. You typically get a choice of three fillings:
  
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• Where tourists seldom tread, part 16: a trio of small historic cities

  27-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Swansea, with its sweeping bay and artistic soul, to Doncaster’s Roman heritage and Carlisle’s literary past, this selection proves size doesn’t matterWhere tourists seldom tread, parts 1-15Whenever this town-focused series includes a city, prideful hollering ensues. The English distinction – not tied to a cathedral, a certain form of local government, nor population size – is whimsical, even if signed off by royalty. This selection of destinations is not about
  
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• London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

  26-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design Museum in London this week. Growing up, school swimming lessons were “horrible, traumatic” – the cold water, the humiliation, the scrutiny from teenage boys. But something shifted when she mov
  
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• Walking in solitude and sunshine in Sicily: a newly restored pilgrim’s trail

  25-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A path in the Madonie natural park once used by itinerant friars takes present-day hikers on mountain trails through a terrain rich in wildlifeDespite walking for three days, we’ve seen no one. Not a single hiker, dog walker or shepherd. Instead, golden eagles have circled lazily overhead, stags have boldly held our gaze, and rare blue butterflies have flitted around our booted feet. The silence here is deep and dense, broken only by birdsong.This is the Madonie national park, also known a
  
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