What do you do when the ski season ends? Head to Nicaragua, of course, then climb a live volcano for a spot of ashboarding. Matt Carroll takes the plunge.
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.
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.
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.