Travelogue
Health check | Turning the tide | Clean break
Welcome to the new map of the UK
The first 5,000 miles of the National Cycle Network opens next month. Stuart Jeffries reports on a mammoth project to make cycling a safe leisure pursuit ands 'test drives' two of the routes
Restorers’ subtle touch brings Piero’s genius to glorious life
There's really only one reason people go to Arezzo: fifteenth-century artist Piero della Francesca. His fresco cycle, The Legend of the True Cross, which decorates the choir of the church of San Francesco is one of the high points of early Renaissance art.
Stay Seine
You may have to be mad to cycle in London but you can forget the Mad Max factor in the French capital, says Stuart Jeffries.
Travelogue
Health check | Separate breaks | Double attraction
Take a hike
Ros Taylor seeks out equipment for climbers and walkers on the net.
Worried sick
All travelling entails risk, but are we spoiling our holidays by overestimating the dangers?
Bohemian rhapsody
Stephen Cook retraces Virginia Woolf's footsteps over the crest of the South Downs to Charleston, which has become the Bloomsbury group's rural shrine.