Holiday

  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Latest snow report: Easter snowfall prompts resorts to extend the season

    Easter has arrived and with it fresh snow in the Alps. Snow has been falling all week in European resorts and many other mountain ranges across the northern hemisphere, with North American resorts doing particularly well this week too.

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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    How Tenerife traded in full English breakfasts for Michelin stars

    As a Canary Island resident, I’m proud to say that times are changing on the island of eternal spring. What was once a Full English-vending, cheap-as-chips package holiday destination is maturing into a place for more sophisticated palettes.

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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    After my mother died of cancer, New Zealand turned my grief into hope

    New Zealand is the reason that I love to travel. Well, New Zealand and my mum. She had visited in the 1970s, and when she heard that my school was planning a rugby tour there, she took on a second job as a cleaner so she could pay for my ticket.

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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    Your Easter survival guide to Britain’s 10 busiest motorways

    With the Easter weekend upon us, many are gearing up for long drives to the coast, to national parks or simply to visit our in-laws.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    How the island paradise of Zanzibar is being ruined by British tourists

    Exotic islands will always provide the perfect backdrop for a party. Zanzibar is no exception. Even the name sparks images of long sultry nights, “anything goes” attitudes and unbridled hedonism. But go back a few decades and this semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago was a simple, spice-producing country faithfully observing Muslim traditions.

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  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    The 10 best things to do in Tenerife

    Yes, there are a million and one beaches (well, 72 listed on the tourist board website at least) on which to stretch out, switch off and toast into a nice shade of bronze. But to do just that is nothing short of a crime on such a multi-faceted island. Up, down, inside, outside: everywhere you look there are man-made and natural attractions to be had, from stargazing in Europe’s clearest skies to conquering the planet’s third-largest volcano, and from splashing around in the world’s most popular

    8-min read
  • LifestyleThe Telegraph

    The best bars and nightlife in Tenerife

    If there's one thing the Tenerifians know how to do well, it's party. Enjoying life is a genetic disposition, evident if you venture into one of the many bars and nightclubs frequented by locals – and there are many. Check out the vibrant student scene in La Laguna, test your stamina in the bop-till-breakfast clubs of the southern resorts, or limber up for Latin pop and hip-swaying salsa in the Spanish nightclubs of both north and south. Every year brings a new music festival, and this year is n

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