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  • Turkiye's Mesopotamia Express wraps up promotional tour, set to debut on April 19<br>TURKIYE - APRIL 5: Turkiye's new tourist 'Mesopotamia Express' has completed its promotional tour in Turkiye on April 5, 2024. The touristic train, which offers new experiences to travel enthusiasts along the route from Ankara to Diyarbakir, completed its promotional tour before its maiden voyage on April 19. The train tour started from Ankara, stopped in Kayseri, Malatya and Elazig and reached Diyarbakir. after about a day. Passengers enjoyed the natural landscapes along the route in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia and had the opportunity to get to know the cities where the train stopped. (Photo by Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Rail travel
    Riding the Mesopotamia Express across Turkey

    With lengthy stops for side trips, this long-distance trip is a joyful, social experience, accompanied by great food and music
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    Scotland
    An easier way to plan long Highlands hikes

  • Tourists at a viewing site beneath the Acropolis in Athens, Greece

    Climate crisis
    ‘My escape is going north’: heatwaves drive tourists in Europe to cool climes

  • Peruvian Amazon
    ‘I’m going to show you good things. Let’s start with an anaconda’

  • Take the plunge: curves and beige shades in the pool area and hammam of the Hôtel Pilgrim.

    City break
    Retro Paris: stepping back into the 70s

  • Stilt hut in the Delta of Axios (also know as Vardaris) river, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece.

    Alternative Greece
    Six of the best Greek holidays beyond the sun lounger

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  • Sarah Baxter Isle of Man

    Walking holiday
    Hiking the Isle of Man’s summit trails

  • Panorama of the wild cliffs on the west coast of Lundy Island (the largest island in the Bristol Channel), Devon, England. Puffins nests on the cliffs.

    Lundy, a world in itself
    How I fell for the island's peculiar magic

  • An alternative guide to Sheffield
    A crucible for left-field culture and regeneration

  • A country track leading down to the majestic Seven Sisters cliffs beyond at Cuckmere Haven in the south of England, UK.

    UK
    The South Downs bolthole that offers a ‘complete escape from the world’

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Spotlight

  • Walking in Greece
    Our epic family adventure hiking through the Vikos gorge

    A rail trip across Europe to the spectacular Zagori region of Greece is the perfect bonding experience for the writer and her 11-year-old son
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  • Close up of Green Istrian olives on a branch, Strunjan. Slovenia<br>2EA1K9A Close up of Green Istrian olives on a branch, Strunjan. Slovenia

    Readers’ favourite campsites in Europe
    ‘We loved pitching in an olive grove’

  • The Globe at Knockan Crag Trail in theNorth West Highlands<br>T9BMB5 The Globe at Knockan Crag Trail in theNorth West Highlands

    Bagging Munros, wild camping and mysterious lochs
    Readers’ favourite wilderness trips in Scotland

    • blu-green Tenno lake, near Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy

      Europe
      Readers’ favourite lake and river breaks

    • Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England. South from above Keswick across Derwentwater to Borrowdale and the central fells<br>DEJ4H4 Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England. South from above Keswick across Derwentwater to Borrowdale and the central fells

      ‘Rain, sun or snow, there’s beauty everywhere’
      Readers’ favourite UK national parks

    • The park on one of the villas on lake Como - Varenna, Italy

      ‘Pillars, pergolas, palms and pines’
      Readers’ favourite gardens in Europe

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  • The Wash cargo sail, Patrick Barkham for Travel. Bloke with grey-white beard in lots of the photos is Henry Chamberlain, skipper/founder/boat restorer. etc. Pete Naylor 2024-2363

    Sailing
    My mission? A two-day voyage along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes for a chip shop

    One man is trying to revive zero-carbon cargo routes by sailing produce along England’s eastern seaboard – and taking paying passengers along for the thrilling ride
  • Gaddings Dam – A Photo Essay

    The beach on top of a Yorkshire moor
    ‘A wild swimmer’s paradise’

  • Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition – the social media phenomenon comes to life this Winter in London. Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition launches in London’s Kensington on 8th December. Warrender Baths Soo Burnell

    ‘You know it when you see it’
    Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition opens in London

  • ‘I slept in ditches and dreamed of marauding raiders’
    A wild walk on the Hadrian’s Wall path

  • Calstock viaduct on stage 3 of the Tamara Coast To Coast Way.

    Coast to coast
    Snapshots of Cornwall’s new Tamar valley walk

  • R3-28

    Cycling the 7,600km European Divide
    ‘Only 12 other people have completed it’

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    Nantes to Quimper, France – a Breton classic

  • In the footsteps of Lee Miller and the surrealists
    A tour of her arty Sussex retreat

    A film about the war photographer and model Lee Miller will be released this year. Her son is our guide for a trip to Farleys, her art-filled Sussex home
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    ‘It’s like stepping back in time’
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    With glorious national parks and a traditional way of life, the Balkan country shows how green travel can benefit locals and visitors alike
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