Travel

Football, lakes, trees, plus plenty of work – that’s my idea of a great holiday

The bucket and spade jaunt gave way in the 80s to cheap package holidays in the Med. But now southern Europe’s just too hot, it’s time to hit the UK riviera

The New World’s writers give travel tips for getting to the parts of Europe others cannot reach

China has built a bridge across a gorge that’s twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. It’s staggering and has become a tourist attraction – but they’ll build a taller one soon

No one uses the old Chicago to Santa Monica route any more, but the diners, rest stops and neon signs that marked Route 66 carry an eternal message

The EU is banning airlines from charging for hand luggage. Guess who will only, at best, half-benefit?

I hadn't downloaded any films or podcasts for my journey, but in the end it turned out I didn’t need any. All I needed was the window

A new, alarming online trend has begun to shed light on the harshest relationship lesson of all – that when one partner walks away, the other can be left helpless, lost and alone

A man fell on a mountain trail and needed an emergency airlift to hospital. The guide made all the arrangements – but then something happened that just didn’t feel right

Only 34 people alive are in the most exclusive club on the planet. One photographer set out to track them down

HS2 has been a decades-long, multi-party disaster that encapsulates everything that’s wrong about UK government decision-making.

Visit the place where Joan Baez and Jane Fonda heard the Vietnam war bombs fall

You can’t walk up the Spanish Steps, there’s nowhere to park and most sacreligiously of all, pre-cooked pasta dishes are now on display to lure tourists. Is the Eternal City on the verge of falling to the visiting hordes?

The city is getting shinier, but a diner with no name remains one of its highlights

Before Google Maps, travellers had to rely on guides and phrasebooks that mixed useful advice with imperial arrogance and surreal oddities

Palm Beach International Airport is to be named after Trump just weeks after his intellectual property company trademarked the name

I used to feel joy at the prospect of visiting the US. But now it feels like entering hostile territory. Wish me luck at passport control

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