20 h. ago Woodland walk with a fairytale castle and a cafe that nails the perfect toastie

This pretty woodland is where you'll find wildlife and remnants of the former Glamorganshire Canal

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26 h. ago The fairytale castle under siege by tourists: Violence breaks out as 75,000 tourists flock to tiny village on just one weekend

Over the long bank holiday weekend, thousands of sunseekers flocked to Lake Garda to take in the stunning sights, but locals were left fuming with their behaviour.

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27 h. ago Fury in Italy as 75,000 tourists jam streets of quaint Lake Garda village as video shows arguing holidaymakers trying to barge their way in to fairytale castle

Over the long bank holiday weekend, thousands of sunseekers flocked to Lake Garda to take in the stunning sights, but locals were left fuming with their behaviour.

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31 h. ago A wild walk along Spain’s empty coast – where the desert meets the sea

Saved from tourist development by a ‘favourite daughter of Andalucía’, Cabo de Gata is a spectacular national park perfect for an adventure on footIf you study a map of Spain, in the south-east corner you’ll see a strip of empty space along the edge of the Mediterranean. It contains no major towns and barely any roads. Its coastline is equally barren – no ports or resorts; just a few tiny villages tucked away in intriguingly named coves – “raven”, “coal”, “bitter water”. This patch of emptiness is the Cabo de Gata-Níjar national park, a protected haven of desert wilderness on the edge of Europe.Having been forced to cancel an expedition to the Algerian Sahara earlier in the year, this park appears to be the answer to my yearning for the arid warmth and stark beauty of desert travel. Zooming in on the satellite view, a network of paths appears, suggesting a walking route of around 40 miles (64km) – from the Cabo itself, up the coast, along the cliffs, to the beach town of Agua Amarga...

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46 h. ago We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks inDo whales make you horny? How about UFOs? Maybe you’ve always dreamed of having a tryst in a fairytale castle, or making love inside a gigantic biscuit tin? Whatever your weird fantasy may be, it can probably be catered for on a roadside somewhere in Japan, if a new book on the curious phenomenon of love hotels is anything to go by.French photographer François Prost has been on a 3,000km pilgrimage of passion, driving from Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, to the island of Shikoku in the south, to document Japan’s unique architecture of furtive liaisons. What he found spans from manga-embellished motels and Christmas-themed love nests to pastel-hued stage sets worthy of Wes Anderson. And some things stranger than your most eccentric kinks could dream of. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Tiny UK seaside village with once thriving harbour now a hidden gem

The small hamlet of Porthgain offers tourists a wonderful holiday destination off the beaten track with cultural touchstones and some amazingly fresh fish and chips

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5 d. ago 'Active violence' at Metropolitan State University as students told prepare to fight

This is a breaking news story and is constantly being updated as the story develops

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6 d. ago European city frozen in time where dark tourists descend every year

This ancient city has become such a holiday hotspot that tourist numbers had to be capped at 20,000 a day. Still, millions flock to see this remarkable ruins of this once thriving Roman town

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8 d. ago Terrifying moment man runs for his life from rampaging polar bear after his desperate attempt to shoot the beast failed

Residents of the tiny village of Pyramiden had been trying to scare off bears after one had been spotted sniffing around residents' snowmobiles.

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1 week ago The Lake District’s ‘best ice cream shop’ is in a tiny village where cars are banned

It went viral in 2024 for a rather unusual flavour

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1 week ago Tiny UK village 50 miles from capital where London Underground once stopped

It was once an important interchange boasting three platforms for welcoming passengers and freight, but no trains run there anymore

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1 week ago Tiny UK village home to one of Britain's best fish and chip shops

Customers praised Mike's Traditional Fish and Chips for the quality of its food as well as the value of the meal overall - critics agree and have named it as being among the 40 best chippies in the country

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1 week ago Tiny UK village with huge lake rated by Brits who say it is most beautiful

Located in Norfolk, a tiny UK village that can be visited in a day is one of the prettiest in the country, making it the perfect place for a summer retreat

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2 w. ago Easter TikTok tourist daytripper invasion: Locals complain their beauty spots are under siege by visitors leaving behind piles of litter and human waste

Masses of day trippers descending on rural beauty spots across the UK over the Easter weekend have been lambasted by locals who say they are being 'besieged'.

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2 w. ago 'TikTok tourists' relieving themselves in fields leave Welsh village 'under siege'

"When you complain, and ask them to stop, you hear things like, 'well, sheep sh*t in fields, so why not us?" - said one local who is demanding action

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2 w. ago The tiny Essex village that is the best London commuter town in 2025

The tiny Essex village that is the best London commuter town in 2025  Time Out

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2 w. ago Don't listen to the moaners... we LOVE tourists: Inside the Cornwall seaside town that can't get enough of staycation crowds

EXCLUSIVE: When MailOnline visited the tiny village of Looe, Cornish shop owners said they couldn't wait for the summer and said tourists were more than welcome.

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2 w. ago Inside tiny village where residents are 20x more likely to catch horror disease there's no cure for

Montchavin, a ski resort in the French Alps with a population of around 200, has seen an alarming cluster of the fatal motor neurone disease (MND) - with around one in ten people diagnosed

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2 w. ago Tiny village nestled in 'waterfall country' with pubs and a choice of beautiful walks

We love a Welsh village with lush walks and proper pubs, and we've found one that ticks all the boxes

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3 w. ago 'I visited tiny village dubbed Italy of UK and one thing surprised me'

As beautifully unique and Mediterranean-esque as this tiny UK village is, there is one particular reason I have no plans to ever visit the insatiably popular Portmeirion ever again

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