‘The only way is up’: cycling Norway’s mountainous ‘Milky Way’
Travel | The Guardianby Ailsa Sheldon20 Aug 2026
‘Norway is a hilly country,” shrugs Glenn Roar Berge. He’s not wrong, though he is fond of an understatement.
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top 99%‘I came to the Highlands to give something back to the hills’: a volunteering trip in Scotland
Travel | The Guardianby Mike MacEacheran19 Aug 2026
I hadn’t planned to enjoy any of this. As summer light fell on Stac Pollaidh – the summit’s teeth bared, the views stretching across the surreal emptiness of Assynt – I found myself ankle-deep in...
Transylvania beyond the spooky castles: a family adventure in Romania’s mountains
Travel | The Guardianby Graeme Green18 Aug 2026
As the sun disappears behind the high tree line, our campfire spits and crackles. Four plump trout are sizzling on a flame-heated slab of rock, a cooking technique used by people in the Gurghiu...
Away with the ferries: exploring Switzerland’s forgotten lake district by boat
Travel | The Guardianby Mike MacEacheran17 Aug 2026
The ferry cuts across the waters of Lake Biel, creating soft ripples, as if someone has taken a brushstroke to a blue canvas.
20 of the best cabins, campsites and hotels in Europe’s mountains, lakes and forests
Travel | The Guardianby Fiona Kerr15 Aug 2026
In the mountains … A remote refuge in northern Italy It’s not easy to get to Rifugio Val di Togno, at 1,317 meters (4,320ft).
‘It’s one huge adventure playground’: readers’ best summer trips in the lakes and mountains of Europe
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers14 Aug 2026
Late summer hiking in the Austrian Alps Haldensee is a clear, sparkling cold lake located at the bottom of the Tannheimer Tal valley in the Austrian Alps (about 90 miles south-west of Munich).
In the footsteps of the Victorians on the Isle of Man
Travel | The Guardianby Phoebe Smith11 Aug 2026
On the shores of Douglas Bay, I could barely see the sand. Crammed on to the beach, on every available inch, were tourists bustling for the best spot. Luckily, I wasn’t there at the same time.
‘I lose all sense of time in the hypnotic flow’: five writers on their favourite British rivers
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian Staff9 Aug 2026
Paddleboarding the Esk in North Yorkshire It’s early afternoon on an unusually hot and sunny Yorkshire day.
‘I haven’t felt this present for months’: sail back in time on a Thames barge in Essex
Travel | The Guardianby Imogen Lepere8 Aug 2026
In a darkened room in Maldon, Essex, a ship’s lantern illuminates the laundry drying on a web of ropes suspended from the ceiling.
How to explore Britain and Ireland’s most beautiful rivers on foot, bike or boat: readers’ travel tips
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers7 Aug 2026
Bolton Abbey and the Yorkshire Dales from the Wharfe Last summer, I enjoyed a six-mile walk along the fast-flowing River Wharfe from Ilkley to Bolton Abbey, with calming vistas of the Yorkshire...
10 of Britain’s best piers for dining, nightlife and good old seaside fun
Travel | The Guardianby Rachel Dixon3 Aug 2026
Perched in our glass-fronted eyrie, 300 metres out to sea, we watch a murmuration of starlings rise and fall and swoop around us. When the show is over, we turn our attention to the food.
Literary escapes: your favourite trips inspired by books
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers31 Jul 2026
Winning tip: Northern Ireland Inspired by Dervla Murphy’s A Place Apart Dervla Murphy’s A Place Apart persuaded me to see Northern Ireland differently.
‘Adventures with a touch of magic’: readers’ favourite family days out in the UK
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers17 Jul 2026
Winning tip: a boat tour in County Fermanagh The MV Kestrel has been taking boat tours out from Enniskillen on Lower Lough Erne for as long I can remember.
‘As if I was on a Greek island, but without the stifling heat’: readers’ favourite cooler European coasts
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers10 Jul 2026
Pining for the Latvian coast Saulkrasti’s long beaches and scented pine forests are an hour from Riga on the frequent local train.
Incredible panoramas, wildflower meadows and the odd wild horse: readers’ favourite walks in Europe
Travel | The Guardianby Guardian readers26 Jun 2026
Walk with the gods above Amalfi, Italy If you have a head for heights, then you can “walk with the gods” on the Sentiero degli Dei.
Tripe soup and bitter coffee in the dining car: a nostalgic ride through Poland on a communist-era train
Travel | The Guardianby Caroline Eden2 Jun 2026
Trainspotters jostled on platform 2 as sunshine lit up the polished olive-green carriages of the 11:07 from Warszawa Główna (Warsaw main station) to Poznań.
The return of France’s train of marvels: from the Côte d’Azur to the Southern French Alps
Travel | The Guardianby Annabelle Thorpe24 May 2026
Nine-thirty on a sunny Tuesday morning, and the platforms at Nice-Ville station are buzzing. Office workers nudge their way past backpackers, passengers clamber on to trains heading east to Monaco...
The train is ‘my time machine’: a tour of Naples’ hidden ancient wonders
Travel | The Guardianby Sophia Seymour23 May 2026
One by one, the visitors descend through a tight tunnel cut through volcanic rock into the damp foundations of the Teatro Romano buried beneath Herculaneum, with the weight of 2,000 years of city...
‘A landscape raw and wild’: by train to the heart of the Yorkshire Three Peaks
Travel | The Guardianby Chris Moss20 May 2026
Limestone stretches on all sides like an inland ocean – appropriately enough, since the shimmering white rock has its ancient origins in coral, shells and the skeletons of sea creatures.