Places

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

Where to stay in 2024

Where to stay in 2024

They're here – the hotels we're obsessing over in 2024, from wabi-sabi Mexican treehouses to a designer Nepalese basecamp to a turf-roofed Icelandic retreat…

Hotel Motto: oh, Vienna

Hotel Motto: oh, Vienna

Globe-trotting gourmand Felicity Cloake waltzes through Vienna's best pastries and grandest cafés from her base at Hotel Motto

Flight-free travel with Eurostar

Flight-free travel with Eurostar

All change, please – super-high-speed trains are shaking up the Continental travel scene, putting you on the right track for visiting Eurostar destinations from the UK

A weekend guide to Margate

The weekend guide to Margate

Kate Pettifer has the lowdown on how to spend 48 hours in the Kent seaside resort, where an artistic renaissance has brought new edge to its nostalgic appeal

City of the surreal: a love letter to Cartagena

A love letter to Cartagena

Maya Boyd falls under the spell of the Colombian city, where literary legend is intertwined with otherworldly beauty and rum-soaked decadence