Zagreb’s secret courtyards
“Shhh. Let’s try to keep quiet,” said my guide, Saša Šimpraga, as he pushed open the weighty wooden door of the Arnold, a late-19th-century...
Vienna city guide: what to do, plus the best cafes, restaurants and hotels
For a perfect winter break, you need more than just a schmaltzy Christmas market. With its atmospheric coffee shops, opulent museums and galleries, food...
Seven stunning places of worship
With their awe-inspiring architecture, magnificent facades and sheer size, places of worship are often some of the most beautiful buildings in the world. No...
The best adventure holidays for 2015
Desert exploring and kayaking, Djibouti
Hard-pushed to pinpoint it on a map? You’re not alone. On the Horn of Africa, bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and...
Travel quiz: famous travellers
Writers
1.
Who wrote: “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live …”
Eric Newby
Jack...
A tiny island’s fight to stay alive
A walk around Papa Westray – a four-square-mile island on the northern edge of the Orkney archipelago in Scotland – is a walk through...
An Indian ritual in dazzling yellow
Congratulations to Ashit Desai, the winner of BBC Travel’s monthly photo competition! This month we asked you to show us images that illustrate the...
Free-falling has never been so scenic
We can only wonder what was going through Dario Zanon’s mind as he peered over the edge of a foggy cliff above northern Italy’s...
The forest where tigers rule
We had been inside the forest for less than an hour when the stories started flying. A tiger here; a tigress with two cubs...
Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas on Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana
Last February, a friend invited me to FAC, or La Fábrica de Arte Cubano, an old oil factory that’s now a thriving arts space...
A trail to an ancient world
At the trailhead, under the shadows of towering pine trees, a large sign warned of bears. At Yellowstone or Yosemite in the US, this...
Top 10 food markets in Europe
Markthal, Rotterdam
Rotterdam’s new €175m Markthal is a sensory explosion. The building, by Dutch architects MVRDV, opened in October and is the shape of an...
An archipelago of killer cats
"In 23 June 1984, I was attacked.” Phoni Gyen took a seat on a dock overlooking the still waterways of the Sundarbans, a low-lying archipelago...
Welcome to ‘surfer nirvana’
The Liberian city of Robertsport is blessed with four pillars of surfer nirvana: perfect waves, warm water, an empty line up and an exotic...
KidZania: the theme park where kids play at being adults
Suzanne Moore visits Istanbul’s KidZania
“You don’t expect me to enjoy this, do you?” she says. “Yes, I bloody well do. That’s why we have come...
10 of the best Christmas attractions in the UK
Burning the Clocks, Brighton
Beautiful lanterns made from paper and willow are produced by Brighton and Hove folk in preparation for the annual “burning of...