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  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    Adventure holidays
    Wacky races through Albania’s Accursed Mountains

    A low-budget rally offers capers and camaraderie to the daring

  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    Weekend long reads
    Crisp air and warm waters: winter in Wiesbaden

    Praised by Pliny the Elder, the steaming springs remain entwined in the city’s daily life

  • Thursday, 31 January, 2019
    Winter sports
    La Folie Douce: the Alps’ most exuberant hotel

    The French chain of high-altitude après-ski bars has opened a hotel like no other

  • Friday, 11 January, 2019
    The fast track to ski-touring bliss in Switzerland

    Just beyond the pistes of Andermatt, Eric Kendall finds a perfect spring retreat for skiers

  • Friday, 21 December, 2018
    Postcard from . . . Belgium: fresh snow all around

    The ski slopes of the Ardennes reach a higher altitude than the Austrian town of Mayrhofen (just)

  • Wednesday, 19 December, 2018
    Rovaniemi: the town that sold Christmas

    How did an unremarkable logging city in Finland establish itself as the home of Santa Claus?

  • Friday, 7 December, 2018
    Move over Barcelona: why Madrid is ideal for a winter break

    From avant-garde art to experimental food, the capital is enjoying a new wave of confidence and cultural vitality

  • Friday, 30 November, 2018
    Winter sports
    High adventure: skiing from the summit of Mont Blanc

    Climbing and skiing the Alps’ highest peak demands time, effort and commitment — but there is a shortcut

  • Thursday, 22 November, 2018
    Across Svalbard on an Arctic safari

    Swaddled in a survival suit, Horatio Clare climbs aboard a snowmobile for a frozen four-day journey in search of polar bears

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 15 November, 2018
    L’Arlatan: a night on the tiles

    An heiress and an artist have transformed a tired building in Arles into an eccentric experiment in design

  • Friday, 9 November, 2018
    FT Best ofBest of Travel 2018
    Glamping in Greenland: the ultimate getaway

    Beside a remote iceberg-filled fjord, a new camp is pioneering a very different version of luxury

  • Wednesday, 7 November, 2018
    The rebirth of Scotland’s Machrie hotel and golf course

    Gordon Campbell Gray resurrects a formerly dilapidated hotel — and the world-class golf course it stands on

  • Wednesday, 31 October, 2018
    After five years and £100m, Sweden’s Nationalmuseum reopens

    Enlarged, brightened, reinvigorated — and now free — the museum is enough to merit a weekend trip to Stockholm

  • Thursday, 25 October, 2018
    Winter sports
    Can the world’s first AI ski instructor beat the real thing?

    High on the Hintertux glacier, Tom Robbins takes a pre-season ski lesson from an invisible coach

  • Friday, 19 October, 2018
    Travel
    The king of beer: how a former teacher created a global brewing empire

    In the space of five years, Mikkel Borg Bjergso has opened bars from San Francisco to the Faroes and spawned a growing lifestyle brand

  • Friday, 12 October, 2018
    Travel
    Sacred steps: walking Norway’s St Olav Ways

    A network of ancient pilgrimage paths has been restored and now offers a quieter, more untamed, alternative to the Camino de Santiago

  • Thursday, 11 October, 2018
    FT Best ofBest of Travel 2018
    Lynn Barber samples the ultimate weekend for champagne-lovers

    Cellars, vineyards, lessons in pruning, meetings with winemakers — and lots and lots of bubbly

  • Saturday, 6 October, 2018
    Opinion
    Airlines thrive when they know who to insult

    Ryanair learns that vexing passengers is one thing but taking on pilots is another

  • Friday, 5 October, 2018
    FT Best ofBest of Travel 2018
    Novelist Sarah Perry on her winter in Prague

    Far from the stag and hen parties, the author finds gothic inspiration in the city’s opera houses, libraries and cafés

  • Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
    Legal battle over, Amsterdam’s Soho House opens

    The group’s designers — and lawyers — have worked hard to transform a 1930s office building

  • Friday, 28 September, 2018
    Postcard from Zurich: a window on the world of Swiss wines

    Most Swiss wine never leaves the country, but an annual event in a former Zurich factory is the ideal place to try it

  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    Postcard from . . . the Dragon World Championships in Austria

    A new sport, ‘dragon racing’, combines the thrill of stand-up paddleboarding with the fun of competing as a team

  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    Sleeping in a pope’s bedchamber in Rome

    A former papal apartment has been reborn as the Eternal City’s most exclusive place to stay

  • Wednesday, 19 September, 2018
    High design in the remote hills of Matarraña, Spain

    The little-visited county is a treat for walkers, birdwatchers — and fans of avant-garde architecture

  • Wednesday, 5 September, 2018
    Is Norway’s Tromso the new Reykjavik?

    Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, the port city has seen soaring visitor numbers — with a little help from a British actress

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