Village tips

Some of Spain’s most popular seaside cities and villages will soon be linked by a new train line.

Some of Spain’s most popular seaside cities and villages could soon be linked by a new train line.

From Venice to Athens, Europe’s most popular destinations are buckling under the weight of unsustainable tourist numbers.

Last year, a town in the south of Italy launched a scheme offering to pay people up to €30,000 to relocate there. 

The village of Salto de Castro in Zamora in the northwest of the country made headlines last year when it went on the market for just €260,000 - less than the average price of an apartment in Barcelona.

A small village in northwest Spain is back on the market just a year after it was sold to a Spanish businessman. Salto de Castro in Zamora was on sale for the trifling sum of $275,000—lower than the average cost of a city center apartment in Barcelona.

Anyone who has been reading destination news this year will remember the massive amounts of travelers flocking to popular destinations across the globe as travelers feel more confident in visiting to their favorite bucket-list places than they have for years. 

When you fly into Aspen Airport, you know you’ve arrived in one of the most beautiful locales in Colorado. When you arrive in the fall, you know you’ve chosen the best time to be there. Snowmass Village, just seven miles from the airport, is waiting to greet you, with hiking and biking trails, new shops and restaurants, and those legendary mountains swathed in gold.

It’s impossible to tell how big the black eagle really is until it alights on the oak tree in front of me, making the branches droop and creak as it clings to its perch like an elephant on a tightrope. With a wingspan of around three feet, this giant bird of prey is far less graceful on its talons than it was a moment ago, when it was gliding in broad arcs over the rippling green valley. As I clasp a cup of chai on a terrace 1,800 metres up in the Kumaon Hills, I’m close enough to see its peppercorn-coloured wing tips.

Thousands of people once lived on small boats in a floating village in Hong Kong.

The sun is setting before 7 p.m. in New York City, and winter is well on its way.

Thousands of locals are protesting a US developer's plans to transform a Scottish village into a playground for the ultrawealthy.

Fancy working from home in surroundings so picturesque they put chocolate boxes to shame?

The last night of my two-week trip to Europe was the best one. But it didn't start out that way. 

A line of London buses is crossing Salisbury Plain. It looks like someone has taken a red pen to the map. At the wheel of the leading bus is Peter Hendy, AKA Lord Hendy, AKA the boss of Network Rail. He’s a great man for old Routemasters, owns two, and is the driving force – literally – of this annual jaunt to the abandoned village of Imber.

Utah's Deer Valley Resort plans to add 3,700 skiable acres, a new village and other enhancements for the 2025-2026 ski season, the resort's operating company announced Thursday.

Antwerp's modern reputation as a progressive design hub rests on the shoulders of the Antwerp Six, the fashion avant-gardists who rose to prominence in the 1980s. But Belgium's largest city has been a hotbed for boundary pushers since Christophe Plantin established the world's biggest book-publishing workshop there in the 16th century. Its openness is due both to its port, Europe's second largest, and to its multiculturalism (more than 170 nationalities represented). The atmosphere is why Antwerp Six member Dries Van Noten has kept his label's headquarters in his village-like hometown. Now a new wave of cutting-edge creatives are behind buzzy hotels, renewed cultural icons, and an ascendant food-and-drink scene. 

Portugal’s temperate climate conditions and diverse landscape make it an ideal destination to explore by bike, with mountains, beaches, ancient villages and forests all within short distances of each other. Whether you’re looking for a long-distance challenge or to enjoy the scenery on a leisurely ride, here are five routes to tackle on two wheels.

In the summer of 2020, my oldest daughter took a surf lesson near our home in Los Angeles, and I paddled out to sit alongside her as she was pushed into waves. Pelicans skimmed the surface of the Pacific, sea lions bobbed, and dolphins even jumped in the distance. I had only ever casually surfed before, but being in the water with her sparked something in me. Even though I struggled to catch many waves, I felt mentally—and physically—challenged; I was doing something new for the first time in a long time.

As you wind your way along the narrow coastal road of Langøya island in Northern Norway’s Vesterålen archipelago, you wonder how anyone could possibly live here.