Featured destinations

Adventure

Torres del Paine

Granite towers, turquoise lakes and wind that will genuinely knock you sideways.

Indulge

Copenhagen

The city that rewrote how Europe cooks, and how to eat well there without spending everything.

Unwind

Cotswolds

Honey coloured villages, footpaths across fields and pubs with rooms, in the correct order.

Unwind

Finnish Lakeland

A cabin, a lake, a sauna and a week where the most demanding decision is when to swim.

Discover

Tbilisi

Sulphur baths, carved balconies, eight thousand years of wine and a city that surprises everyone.

Unwind

Black Forest

Pine, thermal water, long marked trails and an extremely reliable approach to cake.

Indulge

Santorini

The caldera is still extraordinary. You just have to be there in the wrong month and the right hours.

Indulge

Budapest

Grand architecture, thermal water under the whole city and a level of comfort that still costs surprisingly little.

Unwind

Kerala

Palm lined waterways, tea hills and an ayurvedic tradition that treats rest as a treatment.

Indulge

Maldives

One island, one resort and a week with nothing to decide except whether to swim before breakfast.

Unwind

Ubud

Rice terraces, temples and river valleys, once you get twenty minutes out of the centre.

Indulge

Amalfi Coast

Lemon groves, ferry timetables and long evenings above the sea, taken out of season.

Indulge

Lake Como

Villas, ferries and gardens on a lake shaped like a person walking, with the Alps behind it.

Adventure

Dolomites

Pale limestone towers, mountain huts with good wine, and hut to hut walking that anyone reasonably fit can do.

Discover

Kyoto

The same temples everyone photographs are a different experience at seven in the morning.

Adventure

Masai Mara

Open grassland, big cats and the slow discipline of sitting still until something happens.

Discover

Valletta

A fortified capital you can cross in twenty minutes, stacked with four hundred years of history.

Discover

Mexico City

One of the world's great food cities, best approached one colonia at a time rather than as a whole.

Indulge

Marrakech

A courtyard house behind a plain door, a hammam, and a city that runs on contrast.

Adventure

Iceland

Ten days, one ring road, and a landscape that rearranges itself every hour of driving.

Adventure

Western Norway

Ferries, tunnels, hairpins and waterfalls, on some of the most enjoyable driving in Europe.

Escape

Madeira

Funchal gets the visitors. The north coast gets the weather, the waterfalls and the silence.

Escape

Azores

Nine green islands in the middle of the Atlantic, where the weather changes every hour and nobody minds.

Escape

Algarve

Between October and April the coast empties, the cliffs stay gold and the walking is superb.

Discover

Lisbon

A city of hills, tiles and viewpoints, best understood by walking further than is sensible.

Discover

Porto

Granite, azulejos, port lodges and a river gorge running through the middle of the city.

Unwind

Alentejo

Cork oaks, whitewashed villages, enormous skies and almost nobody on the road.

Escape

Outer Hebrides

White beaches, empty machair and a light that photographers travel a long way to stand in.

Adventure

North Coast 500

Five hundred miles around the top of Scotland, better in May or September than in high summer.

Adventure

Slovenia

A country the size of Wales with alps, a green river gorge, karst caves and a short coastline.

Escape

Formentera

The smallest Balearic has no airport, one road and water the colour of a swimming pool.

Discover

Seville

Orange blossom, tiled courtyards and a city built for evenings, before the summer heat lands.

Unwind

Hill Country

Cool air, colonial bungalows, a famously slow train and tea estates in every direction.

Unwind

Engadin

High alpine light, lakes cold enough to gasp at, and the best air in Europe.

Escape

Zanzibar

Stone Town, spice farms and the east coast villages where the tide still runs the day.

Escape

Koh Lanta

A long, low island in the Andaman Sea that never quite got around to becoming Phuket.