UK

• 1 Travel highlights for 2012
  London Olympics With three and a half million tickets sold and a build up that has been headline news for the last year or more, it would be hard to miss the fact that in 2012 Britain – and more...

• 2 Leonardo in London
  Under the title 'Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan', the exhibition draws together paintings from collections around the world in an unprecedented display of the rare surviving works of...

• 3 Europe's spectacular natural heritage
  Dramatic mountains – the vast Durmitor massif in the eponymous national park in northwestern Montenegro, the volcanic mass of Mount Teide, and the dramatic Dolomites in the Italian Alps where green...

• 4 Edinburgh – even better in summer
  Scotland's second most populous city lies about fifty miles north of the English border, between the Firth of Forth and the Pentland Hills. With its fine castle perched high on a rocky crag, the medieval...

• 5 'Glamping': putting the glamour in camping
  Forget about wet feet and tangled guy-lines: times have changed. The new trend for 'glamping' – as a the name suggests, it combines glamour and camping – let's you get up close and personal...

• 6 Whitfield Farm Cottage bed and breakfast
  The ideal base from which to explore Dorset's stunning coastline Whitfield Farm Cottage is a 200-year-old property of character and charm set in peaceful countryside within one mile of Dorchester, offering...