Travel destinations

The Channel Islands get overlooked by some holidaymakers. They aren’t really like going abroad because, well they are British. Except that holidaying there is not really like staying at home and yet it isn’t really like France or Spain. Listen to the Guernsey patois, largely French but largely unfathomable to the average visiting French person, and you will realise that although your money has the same value and you have shops with recognisable names it is different. So why do the islands appeal to such
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Adrian visits Harlech in the Welsh county of Gwynedd to see, what else, the castle. For many though the long, sandy beaches are the attraction that keeps tourists returning year after year.

Reza visits Istanbul and Antalya in Turkey, assesses the security measures in place and sees tourism on the increase.

Natasha visits Bucharest one of the fastest growing destination for city breaks. And finds time to go in search of Dracula’s castle.

The opening of the Guggenheim Museum twenty years ago has transformed visitor numbers to Bilbao. Now about a million people will visit the museum alone.

Europe is a treasure trove of incredible travel experiences, which can make deciding where to go a challenging task. Thankfully Lonely Planet’s travel experts have been on the case to bring you the best spots to add to your bucket list for 2017.

Reza returns to Cuba to see how tourism is changing the country and what plans the government has for the next few years.

Tourists flock to the area and the tourist board in Sydney describes the area as “a pulsating centre of performance art, immersive theatre, avant-cabaret, music, cult films…”

It is calculated that the number of mountain gorillas in Africa is about 900 with probably 500 or so in Uganda and the remaining 400 split between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Adrian travels to the small town of Machynlleth, once the site of Owain Glyndŵr’s parliament and today the gateway from the south to Snowdonia and near to a site in which ospreys are nesting after a gap of hundreds of years.

In a few weeks’ time, the state of emergency in the country ends. Will it be renewed or lapse? If it lapses will the travel advice from the British government alter to say that it is safer to travel to Tunisia again?

Judith Baker finds that a new breed of adventurers is discovering Uzbekistan and the Uzbeks are welcoming them with open arms, hearty meals and colourful dancing displays.

If you are in London this weekend, head for South Molton Street where the tourist authority for the Caribbean island of Barbados will present a three day, free extravaganza it calls a Taste of Barbados.

The other thing that I remember about Seattle was that down on the waterfront was Pike Place Market – a large market where I saw and tasted some of the best fish that I have ever eaten.

When Lerner and Lowe wrote this song for My Fair Lady in the 1950’s, they had no idea that some of the lyrics could just as easily fit with another street, one called Karl-Marx-Straße (or strasse) in Potsdam.

On May 1st, Visit Cornwall and its members are launching ‘Cornish Summer Time’ (CST) which starts six weeks earlier than ‘official’ British Summer Time.

Panama has waited patiently for its moment of glory. That time – following the recent expansion of the famous Panama Canal – is now, says Kaye Holland.

Some of these rivers flow through dense rainforest in which you can find waterfalls making it an ideal place to explore.

A cruise on the Ilala is so different that, until you try it, you won’t realise that such an old-fashioned romance with boat and sea still existed.

Anna Maria Espsäter looks at the changing culinary, cultural and architectural landscape of Norwegian capital, Oslo.

When the FCO ban is lifted, a visit to Carthaginian and Roman sites in Tunisia that recall one of the great ancient civilisations should become part of of everyone’s bucket list.

Maharashtra has taken two working coal mines, one open-cast and one underground and introduced them as tourist attractions.

Whether you have been to Venice or not you will have seen reports or documentaries on TV or in magazines about it so many times that many feel like there is not much appealing to it anymore. Rubbish. The magic still works as Annick and Frederic found out during carnival time.

Anna Maria Espsäter revisits old haunts in and around Mexico City.

By the sound of it, every frog in Hammamet had made his way to this one pond. And each was determined to be louder than his rivals.

Watching them became infectious. I was scanning the skies for the next assault on my concentration. Golf was forgotten.

In this, the first of two articles, Anna Maria Espsäter revisits old haunts in and around Mexico City.

The aptly named Grapevine (the nearest town to Dallas-Fort-Worth airport) is home to the premier Urban Wine Trail in Texas.