Places

Author Lottie Gross maps out five of the best routes for country adventures with your loyal plus one — and the hotels that welcome muddy paws at the end of them

The man responsible for derailing your plans to relax and do nothing — in the best possible way

Glow-worm safaris, glorious sandbars, saunas and smart hotels are helping the Channel Island to reinvent itself, writer Richard Mellor discovers

Harriet Charnock-Bates finds the best beaches, chiringuitos and bohemian boutiques on this bijou Balearic hotspot

Writer Estella Shardlow discovers a cooler — in every sense of the word — time to adventure through Chile’s southern wilderness

Former resident Nasreen Osman returns to Japan a decade later to discover ascendant cities, pleasant surprises in Kyoto and the matcha craze in full hold

Caroline Lewis shows you where to start when perusing the tens of thousands of Swedish isles

Late summer’s full of promise, with new hotels from the Lake District to Vancouver (and a bank holiday for extending your stay)

Kate Weir signposts the best bites, bars and backstreets of East London’s ceaselessly creative corner