From round-the-world adventures to flying supersonic or taking a ‘read-away’, here’s the GH guide to where to pack your bags for in 2026

Anyone who’s read Helen Macdonald’s remarkable memoir H is for Hawk – about grief, nature and training a goshawk – will be aware of its powerful impact. The book has now been turned into a film starri

CAROL McGIFFIN

This year marks the centennial of surely the most famous highway in the US: Route 66, the ‘Mother Road’, opened in 1926 to link Chicago with Santa Monica, California. It was a primary route for people

“America is lost! Must we fall beneath the blow? Or have we resources that may repair the mischiefs?” These are the opening words of a memo in the hand of George III in the wake of the 1783 Peace of P

If you’ve set resolutions and these fail, you’re not alone. So many people give up by the second Friday of January, it’s known as ‘Quitter’s Day’. What if we scrap them and simply aim to have a…