PHOTOGRAPH: JUSTIN FOULKES
Your entire year’s worth of original
quick breaks, mapped out right here
Food on the go
1 Explore Alsace on a vintage wine-mobile p40
2 Take tea on a bus in London p41
3 Taste tapas by bike in Seville p42
4 Work up an appetite on a Tel Aviv tour p42
5 Sample schnitzel in a carriage in Vienna p43
6 The culinary culture of Porto p44
Back to the land
7 Go wild camping in Scotland p56
8 Be a farmer for a day in Wales p56
9 Hole up in a treehouse near Paris p56
10 Work wood like a pro in Sussex p57
11 Forage your own feast in Gloucestershire p58
12 Try a British wilderness weekend p58
One-off weekends
13 Join a wine fight in Spain p59
14 Cast a sword in Wales p59
15 Take the British Pullman to Cornwall p60
16 See Berlin museums at night p60
17 Build a timber raft in Sweden p61
18 Carnival in the Swiss Alps p62
Weekends on wheels
19 Have a Mini adventure in the Surrey Hills p74
20 Bike through Portugal’s backlands p75
21 Rove the land in Herefordshire p76
22 Live the life nomadic in Wicklow, Ireland p76
23 Scoot a Vespa in Italy’s ‘other Tuscany’ p7 7
Adventures in art
24 A tale of two French gardens p78
25 Stay en-pointe in St Petersburg p79
26 Nightwatching in Amsterdam p79
27 Endless suppers in Milan p80
28 Horsing around in London p80
Weekend quests
29 For the Holy Grail, Python-style p81
30 For gold in Scotland p81
31 For wolves in Spain p82
32 For amber in Lithuania p82
33 For Slovenia’s tallest peak p83
Island weekends
34 Kayak between Grecian isles p84
35 Go vertical in Manhattan p85
36 Rent your own island in the Cotswolds p85
37 Go caving in the Balearics p86
38 Soak-in the Faroe Islands p86
39 Pick ‘n’ Mix Ile de Ré p87
Cultural weekends with kids
40 London by the book p92
41 P l a y Po o h s t i c k s i n S u s s ex p92
42 Unreel road trip through Iceland p93
43 Dubrovnik in the movies p94
44 Arabian nights in Oman p94
Go further weekends
45 Ogle architecture in Tbilisi p96
46 Have a laugh in Chicago p97
47 Drink with a view in Beirut p98
48 Learn the art of strolling in Sidi Bou Saïd p98
49 Explore Istanbul’s other side p98
50 Go ape in Rwanda p99
51 Hiking in Sardinia p100
52 L ocals’ L ondon p102
52 Best
Weekends
Away