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There’s many a lovely tearoom in the Highlands, but no restorative cuppa will match the one I had halfway up a mountain with a llama called Atticus.It was late one…

Lisbon on the run: Dashing past São Jorge Castle and the Elevador de Santa Justa on an energetic new tour of Portugal's capitalA Lisbon hotel is now…

Gap year holidays: From backpacking to teaching English abroad By Fred Mawer Updated: 18:53, 22 August 2010 Last week, hundreds of thousands of students found…

Two hundred years ago, the German inventor Karl Drais created the velocipede, a wheeled wooden contraption regarded as the first bicycle. In tribute, try one of these…

How to prepare for a tennis match with Pippa Middleton? A Caribbean warm-up!  By Rachel Johnson for The Mail on Sunday Updated: 10:57, 5 January 2014 I don't…

Shipwreck! Or, to be more precise . . . barge-wreck! A breakfast-time drama plays out on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal, as Captain Adams and his crew set off in…

The summer holidays can be long for working parents. But there is a way to get your children off the sofa and away from their games consoles - and they might just…

Speaking for myself, the best part of a ski holiday is not hurtling down the slopes. It’s not even sauntering into the bar in the evening for some well-deserved après…

Meet the relatives: Martin Roberts' 'mind blowing' encounter with Rwanda's gorillas By Martin Roberts. Updated: 18:55, 7 March 2014 So often adventure…

At the water’s edge, I’m clutching a golden grenade. At least, that’s what it looks like — but break it open and you’re rewarded with a medley of sweet, tangy…