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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
In south-eastern Poland, on the borders with Slovakia and Ukraine, the Bieszczady are mountains of forest and high pasture, with few villages. A five-day circuit from Rzeszów, by way of Sanok, Lake Solina and the Great Bieszczady Loop.
Coast and islands
Medieval castles, a coast of cliffs and beaches, mountains where people speak Welsh. Eight days from Cardiff to Conwy, through the Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire, Cardigan Bay and Eryri.
Wide open spaces
In northern Portugal, facing Galicia, the Minho is a land of granite, rain and maize, and it was here that the kingdom was born. Six days on a loop from Braga, through Peneda-Gerês park, its mountain villages and the border river down to the Atlantic.
Coast and islands
A great Byzantine city, the tombs of the kings of Macedon, the highest mountain in Greece and three peninsulas on the Aegean Sea. A six-day loop from Thessaloniki, from Pella to Mount Athos.
Wide open spaces
Glaciers beside the road, arms of the sea where the tide rises by up to twelve metres, and the highest mountain in North America. A two-week loop from Anchorage, through the Kenai Peninsula, Denali, Fairbanks and Valdez.
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
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.
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.