Basque in calming waters
There's nothing trendy or tricksy about the sea water spa town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. It just knows how to give good instant karma.
The best days out to beat the bank holiday blues
Burn off the calories on a forest cycle trail in Cumbria or place your bets in a duck race in Yorkshire ... here's our pick of things to do today and tomorrow.
Five best … walks with a difference
From an art walk in Yorkshire Sculpture Park to a food walk taking you through Somerset's vintage apple orchards.
Jetlagged aircrew ‘face serious health hazards’
Aircrew working on long-haul routes face serious health hazards from jetlag, experts have warned.
Spa for the course
We live in a spa-obsessed world but a health retreat needn't be all about pampering and posturing. Simon Busch gets back to basics at two French wellbeing retreats.
‘If I went again, I’d take my pills’
The more we travel to Africa, India and south-east Asia, the less seriously, it seems, we take the risks of contracting malaria. Mark Honigsbaum on a new campaign to educate Britain about a disease that all too often proves fatal.
What is … the best natural cure for sunburn?
If you're stuck somewhere without any after-sun lotion, don't despair. There are lots of treatments that travellers swear by.
My yoga holiday from hell
Take care when booking a wellbeing break abroad, warns Kate Rew - it's hard to find inner peace when the yoga deck's a building site.
Ride on
In the third of our series on the ups and downs of cycling in Britain's major cities, we take a spin round Brighton, Cardiff and Leeds.
Britain’s best long-distance walks
David Bathurst, author of a new book on Britain's big walks, picks his top 10 hiking trails, from classics like the Pennine Way to less well trodden routes