National Geographic Traveller (UK)

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SNAPSHOT • ON THE RADAR • WHAT’S NEW • FOOD • EXPERIENCE • INSIDE GUIDE • FAMILY • UK BREAK • BOOKS • KIT LIST

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Christmas cities • GET IN THE SPIRIT WITH THESE EXPERIENCES ACROSS EUROPE, FROM A FESTIVE FAIRYTALE MARKET TO A FLOATING ICE RINK

FLIGHT-FREE CANARIES • A first-of-its-kind tour from London to Lanzarote is making the Canaries easier to access via land and sea

Latin flavours • BUENOS AIRES AND RIO DE JANEIRO ARE HITTING THE CULINARY LIMELIGHT WITH NEW FOOD-FOCUSED TOURS

A TASTE OF POLAND • Comforting, seasonal and rooted in tradition, Polish bakes are a celebration of harvests and holidays

Tea-tasting in Sri Lanka • RETREAT TO THE LOWLAND VALLEYS OF KALUTARA FOR AN EASY-ACCESS INTRO TO SRI LANKA’S TEA, RUBBER AND CINNAMON ESTATES

MDINA • With its Roman mosaics, grand stately homes and baroque city gates, this small Maltese city preserves traces of its ancient history

A bite of the Big Apple • A TRIP TO NEW YORK IS THE ULTIMATE CITY BREAK — BUT WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO DO IT WITH KIDS?

ST IVES • THIS CORNISH TOWN IS A SUMMERTIME DARLING, BUT ITS CAPTIVATING GALLERIES AND ATMOSPHERIC JAZZ BARS MAKE IT EQUALLY INVITING IN THE WINTER MONTHS

Style & substance • TREAT YOURSELF THIS SEASON WITH BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED BOOKS FOR ASPIRATIONAL TRAVELS, BOTH REAL AND IMAGINED

GIFT GUIDE • With Christmas just around the corner, check out these festive finds for travel-lovers — from plush journals to cosy clothing that’s perfect for winter walks

Shafik Meghji • EXPLORING THE MOST REMOTE REACHES OF SOUTH AMERICA REVEALS LOST BRITISH HISTORIES AND CONNECTS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

A SEVEN-NIGHT TRIP TO THE AZORES FOR TWO • Courtesy of Sunvil, the winner and their guest will enjoy a stay at the Hotel Marina Atlântico on São Miguel, known as ‘the green island’

Juan Walker • THE ABORIGINAL GUIDE IS GROWING THE NETWORK OF INDIGENOUS-OWNED AND-LED VISITOR EXPERIENCES IN FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND

12 OF THE BEST UK SPA HOTELS TO BOOK NOW • Whether surrounded by rolling hills or housed in stately homes, these stays offer the ultimate chance to escape and recharge.

TOP STORIES • Here’s what you’ve been enjoying on the website this month

A GUIDE TO EXPLORING OMAN’S GREAT WADIS • THE SULTANATE’S DESERTS AND FRONTIER MOUNTAINS HIDE SCORES OF WADI OASES, ALL BEGGING TO BE EXPLORED.

TROLL PENINSULA • Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by isolated herring-fishing villages.

NORTH YORKSHIRE • In and around the Howardian Hills, chefs are crafting dishes that sing of this county’s rich larder, with ingredients like zesty spruce tips and salted rhubarb adding pizazz to locally sourced fish, meat and game

DUBAI • Even by the standards of an emirate that shows all the constructional restraint of a toddler with a trunk of Lego, Dubai is in turbocharge mode. Eminent hotel groups are flooding in as superhotels spring up on man-made islands. Yet for all Dubai’s veneration of the new, decades of innovation have left a legacy of eye-catching and, in some cases, surprisingly affordable sanctuaries in which to bed down, whether you’re based in Burj Khalifa-dominated Downtown, the buzzing Marina or amid the sugary sands of Jumeirah Beach and the Palm....