Travel
- LifestyleThe Telegraph
The best Canary Islands to visit – and how to choose the right one for you
A church bell tolls as locals order another espresso and settle in for a chat in the palm-shaded village square. A surfer jogs down smooth golden sands to catch the morning’s waves. A hiker shields their eyes from the rising sun as they reach a volcano’s summit. These may not be scenes you’d expect from the Canary Islands, but times have changed, and so has this archipelago.
15-min read - LifestyleEvening Standard
Villa Sant'Andrea, Sicily: an elegant and intimate slice of White Lotus-style luxury
Looking for A-list luxury without the drama? This glorious hotel in the bay of Mazzaro offers stunning views, glorious fine dining and still has a relaxed vibe, says Nick Clark
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
The unsung Spanish city where a glass of wine costs £1
After a few days in Logroño, I became determined to order a glass of wine more expensive than my favourite London latte. But each time the bill arrived, whether a house wine, an experimental pick from a chalkboard list or a personal recommendation from the bartender, I failed. There was just no need to splash out. Any glass of wine here – paired with a creative pintxo snack and served al fresco under atmospheric street lights – was delightful and exactly the reason I’d come.
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
How to have a perfect autumn weekend in Rome
Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness of heart. It’s a city that combines the intimacy and human scale of a village with the cultural draws of a historic, art-laden European metropolis.
10-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
I took my spoilt kids to Barbados but they preferred Bognor Regis
My children are spoilt, over-privileged, under-grateful b-----ds. (Don’t worry, they won’t be reading this, as it’s in a newspaper instead of on YouTube or WhatsApp or MoronBox or whatever the latest one is called.)
8-min read - LifestyleThe Guardian
‘A gap year offers that feeling of absolute freedom’: readers’ trips of a lifetime
Euphoria on a moped in Indonesia, orcas off Argentina and the chance to ranch, surf or simply be the person they always wanted to be are among our readers’ wonderful memories
7-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
I first visited Lisbon 25 years ago. The city is now unrecognisable
By the middle weekend of November 1999, Praça do Comércio had seen better days. The main plaza on Lisbon’s waterfront seemed to be as much an ad-hoc urban gallery as an important public space, so extensive and so graffiti-splattered was the wooden boarding, shielding its many once-fine buildings. Cracked
