There’s fancy dress, and then there’s dancing beneath eight-hundred-year-old battlements while a Transylvanian storm rattles the shutters. If you’ve ever fancied swapping the usual pub crawl for something a little more gothic, the
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For eighteen years, Untravelled Paths has been taking small groups off the beaten track, to the places most tour operators overlook. Now, we’re doing something a little different — and we couldn’t be
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Today is, by the calendar’s own logic, the single worst day of the year to be thinking about Christmas. The 31st of July sits almost exactly six months from the 25th of December,
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Let’s be honest about November in the UK: it is grim. The clocks have gone back, the average daily high in London struggles to reach 10°C, and the country is treated to roughly
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Everyone assumes August has to mean sky-high fares. Peak summer, school holidays, everyone and their dog trying to get away at once, surely the flights are a fortune? Not necessarily. We’ve had a
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There’s a reason seasoned travellers rate winter as the best time to visit Iceland, not the worst. Yes, the days are shorter and the temperatures dip, but that’s precisely what unlocks the country’s
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Some of the best trips we run aren’t built around a single country at all – they’re built around the join. The ferry crossing that swaps one culture for another overnight. The mountain
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Some places are worth visiting for their scenery. Others are worth visiting for a single day, or even a single hour, when a whole culture pours itself into the street, the stadium or
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In 2007, over 100 million people around the world cast their votes to decide which human-made structures deserved a place on the most coveted list in travel. The result was the New Seven
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