Grab your backpack: The top 10 adventure destinations for 2025

From Northern Europe to southern New Zealand, walk, cycle or paddle your way through these 10 spectacular places next year.

• by Andrew Bain

If the French put ice in their wine, you can too

In this one region of France, putting ice in your wine is so popular that a whole new drink has been invented: a piscine.

• by Chrissie McClatchie

Travel’s 11 most overrated (and 12 most underrated) food experiences

The world needs to get over sushi and hamburgers, steer clear of floating breakfasts and instead embrace vegan dishes, Tassie oysters and, yes, Starbucks’ coffee.

Ten unexpected destinations where Christmas is surprisingly huge

Move over North America and Europe: You can find plenty of festive fun and decorations in places you never imagined as tinsel towns.

• by Brian Johnston

Why did I wait so long to visit Athens? My 13 travel highlights of 2024

From discovering Athens for the first time to reconnecting with the reopened Southern Ocean Lodge, here are the moments that really shone for me in 2024.

• by Lee Tulloch

Nine glorious European cities that are at their best in winter

Some destinations simply look and feel more glorious, not in the dazzle of a summer midday, but when the mercury slips downwards.

• by Chris Leadbeater

Beyond cliches: 15 unexpected highlights in popular destinations

Beaches in Paris, fine-dining in Germany, hiking in China: don’t think you know everything a destination can offer before you go there.

• by Brian Johnston

I just want to watch something on my hotel room TV. Why is it so hard?

This simple pleasure has turned into a palaver that makes me long for the violently expensive halcyon days of pay-per-view in hotel rooms.

• by Mark C. O’Flaherty

My advice on drinking cheap spirits in Bali? Just don’t

Recent incidents in Laos and Fiji have stirred fears about alcohol safety in Bali, which has its own history of bar poisonings.

• by Jenny Hewett

The world’s 20 most overrated destinations

Some parts of the travel experience are massively overrated – nowhere near as good as they should be – and we’re here to call them out.

• by The Traveller team