When to go, where to stay and how to choose, written by the specialists who plan these trips. Every fact carries the date we last checked it.
Plenty of places are sunny in winter. Fewer are properly warm, and fewer still are dry in the month you can travel. An honest guide from the UK, with flight times and the long-term weather averages.
Ship size decides how often you go ashore. The Drake Passage decides how you feel on the way. The month decides what you see. How the landing rules work, whether to fly or sail, and what changes through the season.
The herds do not recognise the border, so the real question is not which country but which month. Here is where the migration usually is through the year, what the river crossings are really like, and how to avoid the crowds.
Which country, what kind of camp, what a day actually looks like, and what to pack. A plain-spoken guide for anyone planning a first safari, written by the person who plans ours.
Sri Lanka is caught between two monsoons that arrive from opposite directions at opposite times of year. Understand them and you can find a dry beach in almost any month. Here is which coast to choose, and when.
Three southern Italian summers, three very different holidays. Cliffs and boats, farmhouses and white towns, or baroque cities and a volcano. What each does well, what each does badly, and who each one suits.
There is no bad month to be in the Maldives, but there are very different ones. Here is how the two monsoons shape the water, the light, the prices and the wildlife, and how we match the month to the trip.
When to book, how to choose between places, whether to combine two, and what to tell the hotel. A month-by-month plan for the one trip most couples only get to take once.
