Travel

French trains have caused a stir by introducing age limits on certain services. Unfair, perhaps. But do you like peace and quiet? Or do you prefer screaming toddlers?

Mysteries, misdiagnoses and miracles marked the extraordinary life of New Zealand’s greatest writer. Yet she remains oddly undercelebrated in her own land

The Holy City was extracting money from tourists even when Mark Twain visited in 1867

Everyone wants to visit the historic city. But without intervention, Dubrovnik could soon face collapse

Peter Barron goes in search of The Last Wolf, the new Nobel Laureate’s shaggy tale of a visit to the beautiful but remote region of Extremadura

You don’t need to negotiate with anyone, and if you suddenly decide that whatever plans you made before leaving no longer suit you then you can change your mind

Train travel is 200 years old. In two centuries it has forged economies, created mass tourism, standardised time itself, and made fish and chips a national cuisine. But what’s its future?

In Palla, Deutsche Bahn will have their first female CEO and her appointment has raised eyebrows

South Africa is very comfortable with chaos, especially on the roads

No 10 talks about asylum seekers, hotels and flags, but the bread-and-butter issues are called that for a reason

From San Sebastian to Copenhagen, one train ticket allows travel in 33 countries, for all age groups. But don’t dare think that you can just hop on, hop off

The city is quite obscenely beautiful, and the people are as warm as the weather

To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times

A book that goes from Berlin to Bogotá on a hallucinatory walk through space, time, and memory

According to a recent ranking, Cala Goloritzé in Sardinia beat beach locations in Greece, the Seychelles, Mexico and the Maldives for the title

The place where Goethe’s antihero sold his soul has embraced the maxim: ‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend’

E-bikes are changing life in the city – but not in the way right wing protesters imagine

An older generation of music fans are putting concerts by old favourites at the heart of their city breaks

As the holiday season approaches, will tourists be welcome all over Europe – or will anti-tourism activists once again be targeting visitors?

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

I just really hate the Austrian capital even though I always assumed I’d love it

Provence conjures up images of lavender fields and honey-coloured villages… but the reality of the périphérique is somewhat different

From where authors stayed to where they set their novels, a selection of reading rooms for travelling bookworms

Le Balcon de Villard was cheap and very cheerful. Climate change and underinvestment changed that – but now NBA star Tony Parker wants to revive it

There is something uniquely depressing in seeing the queue for Burger King in the departures area at Male Airport in the Maldives

Today, highway robbery is common on Spanish motorways

As the industry says visitor spend has slipped behind our European rivals, an insider’s view of why some EU tourists have dropped Britain from their travel plans

A feast of festivals, ancient churches, bridge jumping and more make up Europe’s cultural hotspots for 2025

The right wing newspaper's claims of a Labour-sparked rise in the price of holidays is pure fantasy

In Kosovo, there’s a statue to a former British PM, where he’s regarded as a hero. But if you want to see it, you need to take the bus

Leaving the EU has caused huge tensions on Gibraltar. Now the creators of the mess are campaigning against its solution

What is behind the rise in Spain of dark tourism, the trend for visiting places associated with tragedy?