Travel
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The world’s best tennis hotels
As the Wimbledon Championships and US Open among other tennis tournaments unfold, our enthusiasm for the summer sport reaches fever pitch. Inspired by the stars of the court, more travellers are making tennis a part of their holiday, with one resort on this list of sporting hotels revealing that it hosted more than 900 hours of tennis lessons in August 2023 alone.
9-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
I cured my pre-teens’ tech addiction on a Survivor-style camping trip
I was in a shady glade where the ground came blanketed in delicate yellow flowers and birds sung from the trees. At its edge were glimpses of sheep-dotted fields. Though it was a clear day, the air tasted of the water responsible for turning the landscape green. And, at my feet, my son had almost achieved his goal: to start a fire with a magnifying glass and some cotton wool.
7-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
Tourists warned of ‘particularly dangerous’ summer as fires rage in Crete and Kos
Wildfires have broken out on the Greek islands of Zakynthos, Chios, Crete and Kos, as authorities warn this summer could be “particularly dangerous” following a prolonged drought.
5-min read - NewsThe Telegraph
You’re wrong about ‘dangerous’ Barcelona
It’s hardly any wonder that Barcelona is so popular with tourists: it has everything – a vibrant culture; a pleasantly warm, sunny climate; great food and wine; galleries full of Miro and Picasso; not to mention all that Gaudi. It even has 4km of sandy beach facing the Med. But alongside all this prime holiday appeal is a global reputation for crime – in particular the kind of petty crime, like pickpocketing, that doesn’t seem all that petty when it happens to you.
4-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
‘I’m scared for my children’: The elderly Europeans terrified about the Med’s changing climate
In recent weeks southern Europe has basked in unseasonably hot conditions, with drought in Italy and Spain, wildfires in Cyprus, and the Acropolis in Athens forced to shut due to unsafe temperatures.
8-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
The insider guide to Northumberland – the UK’s most overlooked national park
If you asked a child to design a place of empty landscapes, big skies, hills and rivers, dotted with picturesque villages and an extinct volcano thrown in for good measure, they would end up with something that very much resembled Northumberland National Park.
9-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
We bought Britain’s oddest attraction on a whim after seeing an advert in The Telegraph
I’m swinging in the breeze some 330 feet in the air. Below are lush pastures and thickly forested slopes; the only sound being the delighted squeals from the cable car behind me. The scene is almost Alpine. But there are no cowbells or soaring peaks. Instead, I have a tree-top view of tightly packed rows of stone-terraced houses, a train chugging into a station and a posse of motorbikes dodging the traffic along the busy A6. I’m in Derbyshire on my way to one of the UK’s most bizarre tourist att
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