The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Travel - April 20, 2024

Where to make the most of May

FIND YOUR PERFECT MAY BREAK

LAST-MINUTE HALF-TERM ADVENTURES

Half-term holiday dates in Europe

FIND YOUR PERFECT MAY BREAK

Average May temperatures around the world

Inspiration

Advice

Hotels

Destinations

Do you really need £97 per day to enter Spain?

Smaller can be cheaper – but there’s a catch

Meet the man who keeps your plane in the sky

See puffins and white sands on the British islands that ‘feel like another country’

Essentials

FIVE HOTELS THAT DESERVE THE TOP SCORE

My insider tips on why a hotel merits a perfect 10

My insider tips on why a hotel merits a perfect 10

The Telegraph hotel reviews

When cruises are cheaper than trains and planes

2 The Gironde, Dordogne and Garonne

5 The Yonne and Loing

4 The Ill

1 The Seine

3 The Rhône, Saône and Seine

The 10 finest French river cruises to take this year

6 The Rhône and Saône

10 The Rhône and Rhine

8 The Saône

9 The Loire

7 Canal du Midi

Essentials

‘Seeing a bear kill was merely a curtain-raiser’

Yeehaw like a Royal in Canada’s unsung city of big hats, stampedes and steaks

WHERE TO CATCH THE CALGARY VIBE

Essentials

April showers – and other myths about the British weather

Average rainfall vs max temperatures

Sex, death, light and shade in the Naples of Caravaggio

Caravaggio in Naples

Essentials

Grand Hotel Bellevue A French fantasy fulfilled

The Grosvenor Hotel, Stockbridge, Hampshire

London 7/ 10

‘Our balcony jutted out over the Broad with a rowing boat moored beneath it’

COMPETITION

LETTER OF THE WEEK

‘A magical week’: a spring break on the Norfolk Broads proved a winning formula for reader Margaret Littlewood and her family*