Behind the Scenes

This month...

…we’re celebrating festivals around the world. Amid Morocco’s rust-red Atlas

Ireland’s tempestuous coast, a look inside a Mongolian ‘ger’, and more of your images from around the world

WHERE YOU’VE BEEN AND WHAT YOU’VE SEEN

Globetrotter

A WORLD OF TRAVEL NEWS AND DISCOVERIES

Easy Trips

THIS MONTH... the new food scene in Dublin, wildlife-tracking in Poland and an alternative romantic break in Paris

New orders

The good times have always rolled in Dublin, but with

Six decades of Hockney

Rarely do sun-dappled Hollywood hills and blustery Yorkshire farmland appear

It’s a Thai break

Most beach-aimed flights from the UK head to the Med

PARIS

Paris too obvious a choice for Valentine’s Day? Sure, it’s

Shh! Quiet, please

Make the most of February’s curl-up-with-a-book weather

Tale of two cities

Though separated by only a few miles of rolling Castilian

Almaha

Just when the British winter seems to be dragging on,

Great Escape

Make yourself at home with Frank Lloyd Wright in Phoenix and Scottsdale, then get to grips with the cactuses in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. Size up the Grand Canyon and connect with the land in the Navajo Nation, before sampling the fine wines of Sedona and the Verde Valley

VALLEY OF THE Roses

Travel into a secret valley deep in the Atlas Mountains for a floral festival unlike any other

Making a Splash

Buddhist New Year is the time to see Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second city, at its most animated, from the religious processions to the wet ’n’ wild antics of the local residents

Witch SEASON OF THE

They’re very witchy and slightly kitschy, but spring festivities in eastern Germany’s Harz Mountains have deep roots in the region’s prehistory

Costume Drama

The Venice Carnival (Carnevale) is the definition of a festival

ALTERNATIVE honeymoons

If marriage is on the cards this year, half the fun is in planning the honeymoon. Here are four ideas for an imaginative, adventurous romantic trip away

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Budget Cotswolds

The gorgeous villages, graceful churches and rolling hills of the Cotswolds are a vision of old-world England – and there’s plenty to enjoy without a lord-of-the-manor price tag

Weekend in Cardiff

Caught between an ancient fort and an ultramodern waterfront, the compact Welsh capital has a new-found confidence that makes it a thoroughly fun weekend getaway

Rural Corsica

Jutting out of the Med like an impregnable fortress, this French island is beloved for its beaches but also has sawtooth peaks, pretty valleys, dense forests and enigmatic villages

Food & drink in Seville

Andalucía’s charismatic capital is a good-time getaway of steamy barrios, salt-of-theearth tapas bars, culinary alchemists, stylish watering holes and layers of city history

Los Angeles nightlife

LA’s central districts burst with vintage-inspired drinking dens, glitzy clubs and casual boozers, plus – not surprisingly in the home of Hollywood – theatres and cinemas galore

Outdoors in Fiji

Fiji’s sea spray of more than 300 scattered islands means this South Pacific nation is more water than land – and diving, snorkelling and other outdoors adventures reign supreme

What on Earth?

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