Heavenly stays: 10 of the best monastery breaks in Europe

From frugal retreats to luxury escapes, these convents and monasteries offer peace and spectacular locations for all faiths

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20 of the UK’s best hotels and pubs for the great outdoors – as chosen by the Good Hotel Guide

From pubs with rooms to rural hotels to seaside getaways, these picks put you in the middle of beautiful countryside with hikes from the doorstep

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Shyster #Ryanair boss says the answer to this kind of shit tourist is to limit airport drinking. Like he's not totally going to profit from more on-board drinking if that ever happens (pigs would be flying).

The quick way to cut shit tourism is a meaningful fuel tax on jet fuel for passenger flights and a minimum €10 per person per night tourist tax.

Louts will stay at home and get pissed. And save the planet.

#TaxJetFuel #overtourism #weekendbreaks #airtravel

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Rave on a plane from Liverpool to the Balearics

Dancing in the aisle on flight to Ibiza. O’Leary is in favour of also cracking down on how much alcohol passengers can consume when they’re on the plane.

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‘Plus-size people face a lot of barriers’: the campaigners helping larger walkers to enjoy the great outdoors

From being properly kitted out to planning a walking route up Mam Tor, our writer finds her feet and her tribe in the Peak District

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Gastro reboots: 10 of the best renovated English foodie inns

From a 16th-century former pub on the Isle of Wight to a boutique hotel in the Lake District, these refurbished inns and coaching houses offer a mouthwatering stay in all seasons

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Where tourists seldom tread, part 11: five British seaside towns with hidden histories

Some of the less-loved and gently crumbling British resorts still teem with hidden pleasures, for those who care to look

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Where tourists seldom tread, part 10: four more towns with hidden histories

We continue our series on towns the guidebook writers skip with visits to Gillingham, Camborne, East Kilbride and Stockport

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‘Walking away from the world in Scotland’: an easier way to plan long Highlands hikes

A new website aims to give people more confidence on multi-day, self-guided hikes, and sees our writer – who’d previously had to abandon a wild camping trip in the area – return in triumph

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From hill walks and yoga to foraging and wild swimming: 12 of the best active UK retreats

These short breaks from the Inner Hebrides to Bodmin Moor offer the chance to relax and recalibrate amid beautiful natural landscapes

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