City breaks

It is a rare day that Kate Humble doesn’t get up and get outside, walking out from her farm in the Monmouthshire countryside. “I…

The numbers are significant: 250 new campsites so far this year on booking portal Pitch Up, 100 new glamping locations on the…

It was autumn in Venice. Pale mist hung over the canals in the early mornings before vaporising as the sun rose, and the city…

My dad grew up obsessed with small waterways. As a child he scoured streams, ponds and, perhaps inevitably for someone living on…

Beach, lunch and a snooze in the sun, Ibiza When I moan (increasingly) about how desperate I am to go to Ibiza, I think people…

It started with a warning: “Weaklings and novices must expect to perish.” Guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright didn’t mince his…

February and it’s not yet quite spring in Amsterdam. Soon, the buds in the rose garden in Vondelpark will start to blush pink and…

The Old Home Place by JD Crowe and the New SouthBoats have featured in my travels ever since the mid-90s when, aged 22, I bought a…

A few years ago, I travelled to the Cascade mountains of Washington state to research fire lookouts – crow’s nests for smoke…

If there is one thing I learned after a year away from my home country it is that I am, in fact, an Israeli cliche. What I miss…