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Your adventure agenda: be inspired by discerning travel guides, destination diaries and hotels with stories to tell.

Which Italian lake is right for you?

Como, Garda or Maggiore — meet your lake-shaped match

Paris resident Maddy Odom reveals her favourite sun-drenched beaches, quaint seaside villages and surfers’ paradises away from the Côte d’Azur

The definitive guide to Cycladic magic this summer, with easily navigable routes and idyllic island combos

Writer and photographer Emma Lavelle scales mountains, dips into the Cape Winelands and meets penguins over a weekend in the sunny South African city

Cartoonist Zebedee Helm heads to Stockholm’s coolest island to find his ideal bed-and-bath situation

Kate Weir checks in on an East London favourite on its milestone birthday year

To whom May concerns, here are this month’s just-landed hotels

Fashion-forward author Kay Barron finds herself very much to the manor born — one of a certain style, anyway — in the Cotswolds' coolest new stay

How to spend the perfect weekend in Swedish’s super-cool capital

Travellers, it’s your time to shine with the Smith team's pick of the season's best luxury and boutique hotels

Native San Franciscan Laura Zhang navigates the California coastal city to show you how to maximise your weekend break there

Self-confessed food-obsessive Joel Hart makes a culinary pilgrimage to eat his way around Mexico’s ultimate gastronomic haven

The Cyclades’ windy wonder isle is a gourmet haven, with dovecotes, mountain villages, wild beaches and otherworldly landscapes, says Caroline Lewis

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