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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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• Walking in Greece: helping to restore the ancient trails of Andros island

  23-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Idyllic scenery is just part of the appeal of a break that is also about sustainability, meeting locals and maintaining pathsArmed with gloves and pruners, my friend and I are near Pythara waterfall above Chora – the capital of the Greek island of Andros – and we are cutting back thorny and overhanging vegetation. We’re helping out the local volunteer association, Andros Routes, which has been restoring a network of ancient mule tracks, from the coast to the interior and its lo
  
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• The extraordinary rise of bakery tourism: ‘People travel from all over the world. It’s mind-blowing!’

  22-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Beer crawls are out and bakery crawls are in, with people arranging whole days, weekends or even holidays around the search for the perfect loaf or croissantJust one day into a 225-mile hike across the width of Scotland last August, Dan Warren was feeling the burn, his old trail shoes wearing painfully thin. But neither sore feet nor swarms of midges would stop the librarian and his scientist wife, Dee Johnson, from reaching their goal: the promise of pastries at the Bakehouse in the west coast
  
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• Show us your mussels! A mouthwatering trip to Vigo, Spain’s seafood capital

  22-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Galician city on the Atlantic coast has the EU’s largest fishing port, which provides its many bars and restaurants with a spectacular trawl of oysters, clams and musselsRocks thrashed by Atlantic waves have famously bestowed names such as “end of the world” and “coast of death” on Galicia, Spain’s north-western region. But there is a calmer, more intimate side to this coastline, that of the many rias (inlets). Legend has it that they resulted from the imp
  
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• It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien

  22-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Having missed out in my youth, I thought that was that – until I took a revelatory trip with my sons. We’re going again this yearYouth might not be wasted on the young, but for the longest time I thought Interrailing was. When I was a student, as the 1980s became the 1990s, many of my friends took the opportunity to discover Europe by train and they all returned with amazing stories of discovery. But for long-forgotten reasons, it was something I was always going to do but never actu
  
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• Tell us about your favourite beach in Europe

  21-04-2025 13:18 via theguardian.com
  Share a tip on a wonderful beach you’ve enjoyed – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakWhether it’s a secret cove that can only be reached on foot or by boat, or a long expanse of sand where there’s plenty of room for everyone, we’d love to hear about your favourite beaches in Europe (excluding the UK).If you have a relevant photo, do send it in – but it’s your words that will be judged for the competition. Continue reading...
  
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• I visited every country in the world without flying. Here are eight things I learned

  21-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Spending nearly a decade on the move gave me a deeper understanding of the importance of conversation, people’s boundless generosity – and my limitationsI have often felt as if I was born 100 years too late. There was a time when satellites weren’t whizzing above us and everything had yet to be discovered or filmed. Growing up, it seemed as if all the great adventures had happened before I was born. But in 2013 I discovered that – although it had been attempted – no
  
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• 20 of the UK’s best hotels, campsites and cottages right on the beach

  21-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The editor of Coast magazine shares her favourite seaside boltholes, from Argyll to the Isles of Scilly Continue reading...
  
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• ‘An epic expanse of golden sand’: the sweeping appeal of North Devon

  20-04-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s long been a magnet for surfers, but will this coast’s relaxed vibe and huge beaches persuade a lifelong Cornwall lover to switch allegiance?For so many years Devon was viewed as the poorer relation to Cornwall; its coastline less rugged and epic, its beaches smaller, less elemental. For us, the county was always just a cut-through to the treasure beyond and never a destination in itself. The fact that Cornwall was much further to get to somehow proved its remoter superiority. Ho
  
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• ‘The Salt Path gave us back our life’: walking back to happiness on Cornwall’s South West Coast Path

  19-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As a film of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is released, we follow in her footsteps along the Cornish section‘I want to tell you something. I have a stage 4 brain tumour, and I don’t know how long I have left.” When fellow walker Peter utters these words to me at the Minack theatre in Porthcurno on Cornwall’s south coast, I half think he might be reading lines for a new play. Behind him, the waves are dancing, while mist swirls on the 
  
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• ‘It’s like having lunch on an ocean liner’: readers’ favourite UK seaside restaurants and cafes

  18-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From coffee and cake right on the beach to oysters straight from the sea, our tipsters share their favourite places to eat with a view of the wavesFor years, the elegant art deco southern pavilion at the sea end of Worthing Pier housed a dodgy nightclub. After Covid, it reopened, now owned by south coast restaurant business Perch, having been restored back to its 1930s glory. It’s like having lunch on an ocean liner. There’s a great menu, with plenty of the things you’d expect
  
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• A walk with Romans and ghosts on the Great North Road

  17-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tracing part of an ancient highway in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire – now the A1 – proves rich in stories going back 2,000 yearsAfter a while it is clear that someone, or something, is following us. A figure, some distance back. But here’s the thing: it doesn’t appear to draw any closer, or get further away. It seems to remain, matching our pace, just at the edge of vision – at the edge of the dusk now descending over the grand Lincolnshire parkland surrounding Bu
  
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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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• 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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