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What if I told you that you’d been doing staycations all wrong this summer? While some of us (myself included) cowered under canvas in a soggy campsite, cursed

Last week, Clarke’s necklace was unveiled at the British Museum after three years of secrecy. It is, say experts, the most significant Tudor artefact ever found

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

‘We missed the turning,” my dad fumes, two miles off course at the bottom of a very steep Italian hill. All of a sudden memories of family road trips come flood

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

I was born in the Philippines and lived in Angeles City, Pampanga, until I was six years old, when we moved to Quezon City, north of Manila, then later San Juan

Airlines are set to resume flying without one of their trademark products on board — inflight magazines.There are fears that coronavirus could bring about a premature end to seat-back glossies amid...

From city-centre stays to country bolt holes we’ve whittled down the best places in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for a bargain break. All are

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

As if a dam had burst on the horizon, light spilt over the crest of the mountains and drenched the valley. “Sunrise!” my guide said happily, raising his arms s

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

In October I took an hour-long propeller-plane trip north from Reykjavik to the Westfjords, Iceland’s most remote region, in search of isolation. I looked acros

A second city in name but not in spirit, Porto is a grittier, more down-to-earth sibling to Lisbon, where anything goes. It hugs both banks of the Douro joined

At this time of year Ukrainians would usually be looking forward to the end of winter. In the springtime the rolling hills are green, and there are meadows of w

When Zara Rutherford lands in Belgium on Monday she will have broken two world records to become the youngest woman to fly solo around the world and the youngest person to do it in a microlight plane.

At the sound of a baby wailing in the dark rainforest, a sloth stirs from her 18-hour sleep. Clinging to a branch, blonde mop curling around her face in the

In his latest TV series Palin finds fireworks, festivals and sombre scenes — but keeps looking on the bright side of life

Magnificently medieval, thoroughly food obsessed and with a friendly, laid-back vibe — thank all the students at the oldest university in Italy and the western

IbizaI can’t quite believe it. Two months ago, I told my friends, categorically, that foreign holidays would be off this year. Yet here I am, sitting by the pool in Ibiza sipping a beer. Holidays are...

It seems hard to believe possible now, but over three months at the end of last year the actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman biked 13,000 miles through 1

It may be freezing, but the colder months are when the Czech capital comes alive.

Childhood holidays were a logistical nightmare, so we stayed in the UK. I have four brothers and a sister, which made trips abroad difficult for my parents to

Like a tree falling in a wood, have you even been on a short break these days if you haven’t posted it on Instagram? Last weekend I embraced my avocado-and-toas

‘We missed the turning,” my dad fumes, two miles off course at the bottom of a very steep Italian hill. All of a sudden memories of family road trips come flood

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

Congratulations to Danny D’Amelio, whose shot of a viewpoint in Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador, is this week’s winner of our Big Shot competition, in associati

Walks along the secluded Suffolk coast; a secret Yorkshire swimming spot; and Essex’s less-explored salt marshes

More than the promise of spring, we need the promise of escape to get us through the gloomy weeks ahead. Anticipation is such a key part of travel (I wrote abou

Tents are so passé. The glamping boom has led anyone with a sliver of land and a dash of entrepreneurial spirit to erect a tepee, shepherd’s hut or treehouse. T

A hike in St Lucia Experience the thrill of hiking the 45-minute Tet Paul Nature Trail to an astonishing viewpoint between St Lucia’s signature Piton mountains – spotting shocking pink orchids and...

Adrian Rooke makes quite an entrance as he walks into Beaverbrook’s Coach House Spa. He’s wearing chunky black boots, a moss-green waistcoat and a T-shirt bea