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Destinations told one at a time, each with the trip that goes with it — ready to make your own.
Wide open spaces
On England’s south coast, red, then golden, then white cliffs show 185 million years of the Earth’s history. This trip follows them over five days, from Exmouth in Devon to Studland in Dorset.
Coast and islands
Brick towns of the Hanseatic League, seaside resorts with white villas, and peninsulas between the sea and the lagoons. A week on Germany’s Baltic coast, from Lübeck to Stralsund.
Heritage and culture
A five-day loop from Logroño, through hilltop villages, vines and bodegas designed by great architects. You pass the monasteries where Castilian is said to have first been written down, then follow the Way of St James to Pamplona.
Wide open spaces
Rainforests, a coast of headlands and lighthouses, redwoods and two active volcanoes. A two-week loop from Seattle, by way of the Olympic Peninsula, the Oregon coast and Mount Rainier.
Mountains and passes
In the heart of the country, the highest range in mainland Portugal still bears the marks of glaciers, of flocks and of a long-contested border. A six-day loop from Guarda, from the fortified villages of the Beira to the lakes of the plateau, and on to the schist houses of Piódão.
Wide open spaces
Umbria has no sea and no border. It is a region of hilltop towns, saints and mountains in the middle of Italy. This trip covers it in a week from Perugia, from Assisi to the Piano Grande and on to Orvieto.
Heritage and culture
A loop that crosses the border twice. It links a coast beaten by the Atlantic to inland villages where the mountains begin at once.
Wide open spaces
The Ordesa canyon beneath Monte Perdido, Romanesque monasteries tucked under cliffs, an outsized international railway station and stone villages with conical chimneys. Six days on a loop from Huesca, on the dry, sunny side of the Pyrenees.
Experiences
From Nashville to New Orleans, this trip follows American music, from country to jazz by way of the blues and rock’n’roll. Eleven days along the Natchez Trace, Highway 61 and the Mississippi, down to the bayous of Louisiana.
Wide open spaces
The toe of the boot, caught between two seas with barely a plain to its name: from the cliffs of Tropea to Scilla’s rock, from the temples of Magna Graecia to the pines of the Sila. A week-long loop from Lamezia Terme, first along the coast, then up into the mountains.
Mountains and passes
Aubisque, Tourmalet, Aspin, Peyresourde: the passes the Tour de France turned into legends, and between them the Cirque de Gavarnie. Five days from Pau to Bagnères-de-Luchon, crossing the mountains valley by valley.
Wide open spaces
For more than a hundred kilometres the river carves the border between Portugal and Spain. From Bragança to Foz Côa the villages stay perched, the road switches banks over the crests of the dams, and the viewpoints make the whole journey.