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Siblu’s Domaine de Kerlann camping park in Brittany

Face ruddy with exertion, muddy knees peeking out from beneath his shorts, Bobby, eight, skids to a halt in front of our mobile home and [...]

Jeremy Clarke takes a rail trip through Europe

'Hallo! Yes you my friend! Do you want some drugs?’ said a cheery teenage narcotics salesman.‘No!’ I said, standing in the sunshine outside Marseille St [...]

Guy Adams takes a barge through the Black Country

Shipwreck! Or, to be more precise . . . barge-wreck! A breakfast-time drama plays out on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal, as Captain Adams and his [...]

Most exciting theme park offerings this summer revealed

Many of the world’s biggest theme parks are launching new rides this summer. Some will satisfy even the biggest adrenaline junkies. Others feature our favourite characters [...]

Stephen Wright’s road trip from LA to San Francisco

Frankly, it was with some consternation that we stood at the foot of the Hollywood Hills with our daughters, aged 16 and 18.Back home, it [...]

Ice cream with a dollop of history in Turin

This is no health farm. Piedmont - underneath the Alps, in the top left-hand corner of Italy - introduced the world to Nutella and Martini.It’s [...]

Shanghai on the up! This shiny city will leave you buzzing

Living in Shanghai makes New York seem provincial, says a transplanted U.S. professor, now running the Chinese offshoot of New York University. ‘It feels open to [...]

The best ways to experience New York this spring

New York bursts with life in spring - whether you want to see ballet or blossom.The New York City Ballet repertory season opens on Tuesday [...]

Bravo Butlin’s! The king of holiday camps reinvents itself

After three days of sea air, it was only as were leaving that it dawned on me: we hadn’t gone anywhere near the sea. There was [...]

How to see Europe’s key cities without breaking the bank

Exploring some of the top sights in Europe need not cost a fortune.A two-night city stay, flights and even an activity can come in at [...]

How the city now known as Kolkata beats its shabby image

Kolkata is a slow-burner.At first glance, the Indian city, formerly known as Calcutta, is a haze of pollution, incessant honking of horns and half-built skyscrapers [...]

Magical Milan: How to enjoy Lombardy’s grand capital

Home to luxury labels such as Prada, Versace and Armani, Milan regards itself as not only the fashion and design capital of Italy, but also [...]

This Greek all-inclusive family resort’s a real treat!

My five-year-old daughter Saskia has a question. ‘Are we going to meet Zeus?’ she asks. This is after I’ve explained a little about Mount Olympus [...]

Steaming waters still draw beauties to Bath

Georgian gentility: Steaming waters and a glorious skyline still draw basking beauties to ever-elegant BathBathing in Bath's thermal waters has been popular since Roman timesYou [...]

Adriaane Pielou explores Jurmala resort in Latvia

The Russians have gone, so bag a Baltic bargain! How Latvia is one of Europe's best (and cheapest) treasuresThe Daily Mail's Adriaane Pielou roamed the [...]

A carnival in the Canaries: Party on in Gran Canaria

A carnival in the Canaries: Forget Rio de Janeiro, Gran Canaria is the place for a flamboyant pre-Lent party in 2017Very few tourists consider the [...]

Sicilian villas Baia Faraglioni and Apolline

Don’t tell anyone — my teenagers would die of shame. But my favourite thing about our family villa holiday in Sicily were my 8am Embarrassing [...]

James Rampton explores Alphonse Island in the Seychelles

Things don’t get much more Ernest Hemingway than this. I’m standing in the back of a fishing boat, chugging around the island of Alphonse in [...]

Tamara Hinson reviews La Palma in the Canary Islands

Singing the praises of a rarer Canary: La Palma's quiet black sand beaches make for the perfect island getawayThe Daily Mail's Tamara Hinson explored the [...]

Make a pig of yourself in succulent Segovia

How do you work up an appetite for a whole roast suckling pig?You can imagine the dish — cochinillo asado — being eaten by peasant [...]

Cheshire isn’t only beloved of WAGs and footballers

It is easy to dismiss Cheshire as a WAGs' playground, but dig a little deeper and it proves to be a class act.Take the 1,000-acre, [...]

A mix of beaches to delight the whole family

Conche des Baleines, Ile de Re, FranceA wild and dramatic beach in the remote north-west corner of France’s Ile de Re, it’s a favourite holiday [...]

Russian revolt! Visit St Petersburg a century on

Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, wrote the American journalist John Reed.His eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution [...]

Andrew Yates reviews the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz

Take an English Victorian seaside resort with its grand hotels, prom and arcades, and plonk it several hundred miles away on a rugged coast overlooking [...]

The Gardaland Adventure Hotel boasts endless family fun

Were Indiana Jones finally to retire and decide to go into the hotel business, this is surely the kind of joint he’d open.It’s a brand [...]

Jo Kessel kayaks the Ardeche River from Ch’ti Franoi

There comes a moment in any parent’s life when you think: why? Mine comes as I dangle off a rope tethered to a ten-metre high [...]

An Inspector Calls on London’s The Athenaeum Hotel

An Inspector Calls: London's newly-refurbished Athenaeum Hotel fails on every front except for its slick new barThe Inspector checked in to investigate The Athenaeum Hotel [...]

Seeing Michelangelo’s Rome with a new perspective

Sometimes stiff competition is just the inspiration you need. And in late 15th and early 16th-century Rome, rivalry was fierce.Particularly between two of the city’s [...]

A llama drama in splendid Scotland for Guy Adams

There’s many a lovely tearoom in the Highlands, but no restorative cuppa will match the one I had halfway up a mountain with a llama [...]

Anna Pasternak reviews the Anassa in Paphos, Cyprus

When it’s a choice between visiting an archaeological site or watching Paul Hollywood film a documentary, the Great British Bake Off star wins hands down. We [...]

This French camping village is pitch-perfect for a family

Gliding through the water with the sun blaring above, the only sound is the occasional tweet of birdsong or observation from our guide. Oh, and [...]

The charms of Oman: Chic, peaceful, beguiling

When sprinkling celebrity stardust on your mountain-top hotel, aim high. At the Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar in northern Oman, there is a glass-sided walkway projecting [...]

Morocco’s Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort ticks all the boxes

Look out!’ cries my eight-year-old daughter, Sofia.I turn on my sun lounger. Heading towards us at a steady, but determined, pace is an enormous camel. [...]

Cycling the Loire Valley, a haven of France at its best

Follow the river to France at its finest: Cycling and kayaking the Loire Valley, that Gallic haven of castles and charm The Loire region of [...]

Take a tour of Lanzarote’s volcanic side

Were Lanzarote a woman, she'd be feisty and combustible. The smallest of the four main Canary Islands is dubbed the Hawaii of Europe.Like her larger [...]

Poetry, opera and romantic tales set the scene in Verona

My first mistake is to arrive in Verona with two men. One is tall, dark and handsome. The other is fair, with mesmerising green eyes.'Which [...]