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28  mars     07h00
Rail route of the month: cheese, chocolate and a magical ride to the Swiss town of Gruyères
Nicky Gardner    The scenery and delicacies get better and better for our slow travel expert as she takes a local train through Canton Fribourg to a beautiful medieval villageIt was a handpainted sign on a wooden barn that piqued my interest in Gruyères. I was travelling from Emmental to Montreux last year,...
27  mars     07h00
An alternative guide to Leeds: a city with an independent spirit
Leyla Rose    A book club in a disused petrol station, an electronic music hub in an old bus garage ... Yorkshire’s largest city is a hotbed of grassroots creativity Leeds has an independent, thriving arts scene, says Emma Beverley, the director of programmes at last year’s cultural showcase, Leeds . A...
26  mars     07h00
It’s like travelling back 700 years: healthy pleasures in rural Andalucà a
Lois Pryce    A group of seven Moorish villages in southern Spain are the perfect place to recharge offering mountain air, sparkling springs and any excuse for a partyOn our first morning in Atalbéitar, I walk into the kitchen to make coffee and wonder if I’m feeling the effects of the previous night’s...
25  mars     07h00
Light fantastique: Paris through the eyes of the impressionists
Andrew Martin    From Monet to Degas, the luminosity of Paris has inspired countless artists. As the city celebrates years of impressionism it’s still shining brightParis is called the City of Light, possibly because of its early adoption of gas street lighting. But that would not explain why, as I approach...
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Send us a tip on a summer holiday in Scandinavia - and you could win a holiday voucher
Guardian community team    Tell us about your favourite outdoorsy summer break in Scandinavia. The best tip wins towards a Coolstays breakWe’re all familiar with the Scandinavian concept of hygge, which is all about hunkering down and staying cosy in winter. So it will come as no surprise to learn that the Scandis have...
24  mars     08h00
An eco retreat with a heart in Cyprus
Genevieve Fox    A hillside eco retreat makes a great base for connecting with nature and exploring the coast and mountains around Paphos This whole project started as an experiment, says Pawel Sidorski, who swapped his life in the European hotel industry to pursue his vision of sustainable luxury, opening Yurts...
19  mars     07h00
In the company of wolves and kings: Suffolk’s new medieval cycle trail
Sarah Baxter    The Wolf Way a magnificent, not too hilly, cycling route takes in the county’s myths, market towns and Gainsborough landscapesIt was an inauspicious start. Having cycled no more than a few metres, from the steps of the Angel hotel into the grounds of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, I fell off my bike...
07  mars     07h00
Riding the Daffodil Line around England’s golden triangle’
Phoebe Taplin    The Herefordshire Gloucestershire border is famous for its spring flower displays, and a new community run bus service is the perfect way to exploreWhen Clare Stone’s local bus service was abruptly axed in , she got quite cross and co founded protest group Buses Us. In the early th century...
19  février     07h00
Blooming lovely: 12 of the UK’s best gardens to visit in early spring
Phoebe Taplin    From an th century orangery in Manchester to a sunken fern garden in the Highlands, here are places to get your floral fixIn the midst of winter with its low grey skies, the scents and colours of embryonic spring are a welcome morale booster. These gardens will offer spectacular views over the...
12  février     07h30
Walking through the Yorkshire Wolds to a great village pub: the Goodmanham Arms
Sarah Banks    A saunter through a historic village and chalk hills to a quirky, rustic pub that brews its own aleAll Hallows Church in the village of Goodmanham is where the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria’s kingdom to Christianity began in . Edwin had already embraced the new religion...
23  mars     07h00
My top restaurants and food discoveries from 20 years of writing about France
Carolyn Boyd    From roadside picnics to Michelin star restaurants, the former editor of France magazine picks her most memorable foodie momentsMy favourite places to visit in FranceStandout moments from nearly years of writing about travelling and eating around France include meals in legendary restaurants and...
18  mars     15h57
A tale of two cities: get to know Belfast and Dublin in 72 hours
Thom Breathnach    With just a two hour train ride between the two, there’s no reason to choose between the Emerald Isle’s main cities. Here’s what to see and where to stay in both Whether you’re a repeat or first time visitor to Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast, the city’s neighbourhoods offer so much from the...
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Ready, set, go: nine film and TV locations to inspire your next UK and Ireland holiday
Guardian Staff    Whether it’s following in the footsteps of Normal People, seeing the backdrop of Peaky Blinders, or stepping into the grand interiors of The Crown, these destinations all have star quality and a Hilton hotel ensures the A list experience doesn’t end when the day is over This content was...
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Join the set-jetters’: how to visit your favourite TV show locations - from One Day to Happy Valley
Adam Smith    Visiting TV and movie locations is the hot travel trend for . And you don’t need to go abroad to join inPondering where to go for your next trip Why not take a cue from your favourite TV series or movie More and more of us are getting inspiration for our travel plans from the locations where...
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So long Cornwall, Cheddar and the Cotswolds: discover the UK destination dupes’ to beat the crowds
Laura Millar    If you’re not one for travel cliches, these alternative travel spots could be just the ticketYou’re probably already familiar with the concept of the fashion or beauty dupe: a piece of clothing or a product which is similar to the original must have item you’re swapping it for, in form and function...
22  mars     07h00
This is the France you dream of’: readers’ favourite travel discoveries
Guardian readers    Medieval villages, secret alleyways and Charles de Gaulle’s retreat are just some of our tipsters’ French findsClimbing towards the basilica from the river, we explored a zigzag of secret staircases and hidden courtyards in Lyon. These traboules are hard to follow, and so we had to look out for the...
08  mars     07h00
I’ve never seen lily pads so big’: readers’ favourite gardens in Europe
Guardian readers    Our tipsters enjoy glorious fragrances and waves of shimmering colour at historic and absorbing gardens from Spain to SwedenLa Mortella is an extraordinary garden we visited on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. It is a wonderland of exotic plants, created in by Argentinian Susana...
01  mars     07h00
Readers’ favourite spring breaks in the UK and Europe
Guardian readers    Our readers make the most of spring with woodland walks in Yorkshire’s Little Switzerland’ and picnics of ham and cheese baguettes in the French AlpsThe area around Hardcastle in West Yorkshire springs into life in mid March. The woodland floor transforms as if by magic into a soft carpet of...
23  février     07h00
A Neolithic miracle’: readers’ favourite ancient UK sites
Guardian readers    Our tipsters celebrate our distant ancestors at mystical and atmospheric sites from County Fermanagh to CornwallCratcliffe and Robin Hood’s Stride are a collection of gritstone crags and boulders nestled against a Derbyshire hillside not far from Bakewell. It’s a beautiful place with a magical feel...
16  février     07h00
Ditch the car and saddle up: readers’ best slow travel breaks
Guardian readers    From Hydra to the Hebrides, our tipsters embrace life in the slow lane, getting off the beaten track on foot, by bike and even a donkeyI’ve enjoyed a lovely four to five day circular trip using ferries and bikes. We took the Brittany Ferries overnight sailing from Portsmouth St Malo, then cycled...
26  décembre     08h00
A wild swimmer’s paradise’: the beach on top of a Yorkshire moor
Ben Davis and Pete Jenkinson    A new documentary, Wild Water, celebrates a hardy group of enthusiasts who hike up boglands to swim year round in a remote mill pond built during the Industrial RevolutionGaddings Dam was built as a mill pond in about , when the Industrial Revolution positioned West Yorkshire and the north of...
08  décembre     07h00
You know it when you see it’: Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition opens in London
Joanne O'Connor    New exhibition showcases photographs of real locations inspired by American film director’s whimsical trademark styleThink of a Wes Anderson film and the muted greys and browns of a rain soaked day in London are not the first things that spring to mind. But the UK capital is about to host the first...
10  octobre     06h00
I slept in ditches and dreamed of marauding raiders’: a wild walk on the Hadrian’s Wall path
Quintin Lake    The vandalism at Sycamore Gap may have hogged the headlines, but walking the length of the national trail puts these borderlands into thrilling historical contextHadrian’s Wall has perhaps the most single minded personality of all the National Trails, tracing as it does the miles from Bowness on...
02  août     06h00
Coast to coast: snapshots of Cornwall’s new Tamar valley walk
Jonny Weeks    Our photojournalist samples short walks along the new mile route which hugs the border of Cornwall and DevonA few minutes into a guided walk along the new Tamara Coast to Coast Way, which roughly traces the border of Cornwall and Devon, my guide is looking sheepish. We’re standing in a grassy...
08  juin     06h00
Only 12 other people have completed it’: cycling the 7,600km European Divide
Jacob Martin    From the Norwegian fjords to the mountains of Portugal, this epic bikepacking adventure through nine countries has beauty and challenges in spadesLast summer I cycled, km , miles along a route called the European Divide Trail, which runs through nine countries, all the way from Arctic...
31  janvier     07h00
Extreme adventure from Afghanistan to Ecuador: the Banff Mountain Film Festival returns
Neelam Tailor    Shortly to tour the UK, this festival of exhilarating documentaries expands our notions of human possibility and focuses attention on inequality and the environmentThe Banff Mountain film festival opens the door to the inspiring stories of people who simultaneously confront their physical and...