Travel

  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    How to get around Japan without upsetting the locals

    “If you see a step up, it’s time to change your shoes,” said Llew Thomas, our tour leader, as we entered the guesthouse. Wooden geta sandals were lined up in a row but slipping into them was no easy feat. It required balance and dexterity to remove our boots and step up without touching the mud-flecked entrance floor again. Wearing the right footwear in the right place is huge in Japan; there are even special plastic sliders for the lavatory.

    10-min read
  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Latest snow report: Easter snowfall prompts resorts to extend the season

    Easter has arrived and with it fresh snow in the Alps. Snow has been falling all week in European resorts and many other mountain ranges across the northern hemisphere, with North American resorts doing particularly well this week too.

    5-min read
  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    How Tenerife traded in full English breakfasts for Michelin stars

    As a Canary Island resident, I’m proud to say that times are changing on the island of eternal spring. What was once a Full English-vending, cheap-as-chips package holiday destination is maturing into a place for more sophisticated palettes.

    6-min read
  • LifestyleEvening Standard

    Venice Simplon-Orient-Express: all aboard the most glamorous train journey in the world

    Crystal glasses, white-glove breakfast service and caviar — this is what it’s really like on board the Venice Simplon-Orient Express, says Dylan Jones

    6-min read
  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    After my mother died of cancer, New Zealand turned my grief into hope

    New Zealand is the reason that I love to travel. Well, New Zealand and my mum. She had visited in the 1970s, and when she heard that my school was planning a rugby tour there, she took on a second job as a cleaner so she could pay for my ticket.

    5-min read
  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    Your Easter survival guide to Britain’s 10 busiest motorways

    With the Easter weekend upon us, many are gearing up for long drives to the coast, to national parks or simply to visit our in-laws.

    9-min read
  • NewsThe Telegraph

    How the island paradise of Zanzibar is being ruined by British tourists

    Exotic islands will always provide the perfect backdrop for a party. Zanzibar is no exception. Even the name sparks images of long sultry nights, “anything goes” attitudes and unbridled hedonism. But go back a few decades and this semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago was a simple, spice-producing country faithfully observing Muslim traditions.

    5-min read