With a combined coastline stretching over 40,000 kilometres, Australia and New Zealand harbour heaps of appeal for holidays afloat – so choose a cruise that encompasses them both for the best of both worlds. Most departures fall in the southern summer between December and February, when the two-day crossing between the two nations is at
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The beaches, boutiques and bars aside, Barcelona has enough sights to keep a visitor busy for several weeks – but most endeavour to cram that into an exhausting long weekend. Help is at hand, however, with the new breed of supremely relaxing hotel spas, where you can wind down from a day pounding the pavements.
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The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us. This year is a particularly poignant moment for Winchester as it marks the 200th anniversary of the composition of what is perhaps John Keats’s finest poem, To Autumn. With the launch of a new self-guided trail, Keats’s Walk – Ode To Autumn (visit-hampshire.co.uk), a gentle
Thomas Telford’s epic 60-mile Caledonian Canal may have been forged as a utilitarian project to prevent ships having to battle around Scotland’s wild northern fringes, but there is nothing utilitarian about the Spirit of Scotland. This exclusive hotel barge has taken Scottish canal cruising to another level. You can still Nessie spot, just you get
All-inclusive holidays don’t always have to mean wasteful buffets and unlimited alcohol. In Greece, there are a host of elegant and excellent-value hotels with all-inclusive packages. The key features of a traditional summer holiday are all there: watersports, spas, infinity pools and private beaches, not to mention good-quality (and varied) cuisine, from Greek to Italian,
This Lombardy city has the art, history and food you seek – but no crowds, finds Tim Jepson Go now Mantua is that rarest of things – a sublime Italian city that is still untroubled by crowds. Why is hard to know, for the rule of the Gonzaga family from 1328 to 1707 and their rich court attracted
Raised above the rest of Devon, Dartmoor has always been a place apart; one minute an aching emptiness of brooding tors and windswept skylines, the next a deep valley at your feet, a falling away of mossy oaks and the sound of a river running far below. Its hillsides are littered with relics of long
It’s been dubbed the seven-minute miracle: teams of high-speed cleaners, with wide smiles and plastic flowers clipped to their hats, leap on board Japanese bullet trains and carry out a meticulous cleaning routine, before the next batch of passengers come on board. The spectacle, which unfolds with near-mundane regularity every day on train platforms, is
