Martinhal Beach Resort & Hotel: a new resort from the founders of Woolley Grange

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Head for the hills: the mountains of Snowdonia provide a stunning backdrop to the route

A peak performer: Simon Calder climbs aboard the Welsh Highland Railway

A new section of the dramatic Welsh Highland Railway opens this week – and with rolling stock as impressive as the views, it's not to be missed

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If the nightingales would just pipe down...

...you might hear the bittern's boom. Adrian Phillips is spoilt for birdlife to watch on Hungary's Lake Tisza

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Papua New Guinea, one of the 'last frontiers', can also be reached by luxury cruiser

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Half-price hotel break in Shropshire: Get 50 per cent off a 'Mid-Week Food Lover's Break' at Fishmore Hall. Price ?163 per room per night, including ? la carte dinner for two and full English breakfast. Go to fishmorehall.co.uk

Tips and deals of the week: 23/05/2010

Half-price hotel break in ShropshireGet 50 per cent off a "Mid-Week Food Lover's Break" at Fishmore Hall. Price £163 per room per night, including à la carte dinner for two and full English breakfast.Go to: fishmorehall.co.uk

Grand ambition: the Regent Esplanade hotel

48 Hours In: Zagreb

The Croatian capital embraces the start of summer with concerts, caf� culture and national celebrations.

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Cool sophistication: The rooms at Coral Lodge have eco-friendly beds, silent air-conditioning, and furniture made from coconut wood

Stay the night: Coral Lodge 15.41, Mozambique

A new shorefront lodge is a worthy addition to Mozambique's stylish stopovers, says Sue Watt

Sailing by: Get active at the Olympic venue at Weymouth

The Olympics have arrived! Well, some of the venues, at least

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Sands of time: Mishal Husain's trip took her back to the deserts of Ras al-Khaimah

Mishal Husain travels back to the UAE

A trip down memory lane is a little tricky if, like me, yours was an expatriate childhood. Mine was spent in the United Arab Emirates – 10 happy years from 1975, when I was two years old – which makes it the first home I can remember. But the UAE isn't somewhere I pass through much these days and my friends from there are scattered across the globe. Even if I did venture back, the ever-changing urban landscape is more than likely to have rendered once-familiar locations unrecognisable.

In good shape: Grafenegg, in Austria is one of the most recent additions to the festival circuit, launching in 2007.

Times may be tight, but we're hooked on classics

Classical music festivals are on the increase across Europe despite the tough economic climate. Adrian Mourby reports

The Flinders Ranges National Park, whose green hills contrast dramatically with the sparse prairie on which Parachilna sits

Following in the footsteps of a trailblazer...but not on a camel

It was 150 years ago that John Stuart reached a part of Australia that other colonialists had failed to reach. Polly Evans retraced his journey, only with a few more home comforts

Travel Challenge: An adventure in Peru

Every week, we invite companies to give us their best deal for a specified holiday. Today: a two-week journey around Peru, leaving in mid June. Prices are per person based on two sharing.

High life: Margherita, climbed by Sue Watt is one of Mount Stanley's two peaks

Summit special: Climbing Uganda's highest peak requires stamina, an armed guide... and a pair of Wellington boots

"Bring your right leg up to that little ledge. Come on, it's just one small step." Our guide, Joel, was doing his best to encourage me, at nearly 5,000m up Uganda's Mount Stanley, that the summit was within reach. It may have been a small step to Joel, but to a rock-climbing novice like me, it required a leap of faith to expect one spike on my crampon to support my weight as I clung like a limpet to a four-metre wall of sheer, icy rock.

Golden wonder: The beach resort of Nilaveli is on the brink of a boom

Sri Lanka: Once off-limits areas are reopening to tourists

Foreign correspondent Peter Popham returns to discover how much has changed since the civil war ended

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