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Destinations told one at a time, each with the trip that goes with it — ready to make your own.
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An 830-kilometre loop from Inverness, through the mountains of the west coast, the beaches of the north and the cliffs of Caithness. Nine days on roads that are often single-track, at the pace of the passing places.
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The lagoon of the Ria Formosa, the golden limestone cliffs of Benagil and Lagos, then Cape St Vincent, which the ancients held to be the end of the inhabited world. A week’s loop from Faro, by way of the wild coast running north towards the Alentejo, and the Serra de Monchique.
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From the Plitvice Lakes to the walls of Dubrovnik, this trip crosses Croatia in ten days. It takes in Zadar, Šibenik, Split and the Biokovo road.
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A road cut into the cliffs of southern Australia, between surf beaches, rainforest and limestone stacks. Five days from Melbourne to Port Fairy, sleeping by the sea.
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Greece’s largest island mixes Minoan palaces, Venetian harbours, gorges and pink-sand beaches. This nine-day trip starts in Heraklion and ends in Chania, by way of Lasithi, the south coast and the far west.
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Two peninsulas in south-west Ireland, between lakes, mountains and cliffs above the Atlantic. Six days on a loop from Killarney, from Slea Head to Ladies View.
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Vesuvius and the towns it buried in AD 79, then the Amalfi Coast, its terraced villages and its lemon trees above the sea. Five days on a loop from Naples, from Pompeii to Ravello.
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A mountain in the sea: red granite calanques, Genoese citadels, passes more than a thousand metres up, twenty kilometres from the beaches. Ten days on a loop from Ajaccio, on slow and winding roads.
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A narrow bay between high mountains, Venetian towns on the water’s edge and a winding road that climbs up to Lovćen. Five days on a loop from Kotor, taking in Perast, Herceg Novi, Cetinje and Budva.
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Between the country’s two great cities lies almost the whole of Portugal’s history: the palaces of Sintra, the royal abbeys, the wave at Nazaré, the old university of Coimbra. A week heading north, from Belém, where the caravels set sail, to Porto, which gave the country its name.
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From the surf beaches of Sydney to the rainforests of Queensland, you drive up Australia’s east coast for more than 3,600 kilometres. Sixteen days on the road heading north, with the Great Barrier Reef at the end.
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Highway 1 follows the Pacific from San Francisco to Los Angeles, past cliffs, surf beaches and towns that grew from the Spanish missions. Eight days on the road, with Big Sur in the middle.