Remember your travel jabs – or risk losing your insurance cover

Insurers warn that one in four Britons fail to get jabs before travelling – and may find their policy doesn't pay if they fall ill

Travel tips: upmarket Cornish village and the UK’s vintage festivals

Go to the revamped Millendreath in Cornwall, indulge your nostalgia at vintage festivals and the week's best deals

Body not beach-ready? So what?

Alex Clark: The whole joy of being on holiday is feeling free to eat, drink and let it all hang out

Drink up, it’s good for you! A red wine detox holiday in France

You don't usually associate detoxing with fun – or booze. But there's plenty of both on a new red wine detox in the Madiran wine region in south-west France

The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane – review

Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: In the final book in his trilogy about landscape and the human heart, Robert Macfarlane turns his attention to sacred encounters and wild walks

40 consequences of 10 wet summers: what will a decade of rain do to us?

Forecasters have warned that we may need to get used to washout summers, perhaps for the next 10 years. From wildlife to camping to fashion, what will this do to us a nation?

The island of long life

On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet… and very, very long. So what is the locals' secret? Andrew Anthony investigates

Spain’s Ehic refusal prompts legal action from European Commission

British insurance firms lodge complaints as holidaymakers in Spain are told to reclaim cost of health care from their insurer

How do you recover from jet lag?

Jet lag can really take the edge off an exciting long-haul holiday, or exacerbate the post-break blues. But remedies are at hand

Dengue fever rise prompts doctors to warn of insect bites abroad

Travellers to far east and Caribbean told to be on lookout for warning signs after cases of tropical disease rise threefold