52 best weekends away

On the cover – our annual ’52 Best Weekends Away’ special issue contains a wealth of ideas for weekend breaks including staying in a plush pigsty on the Yorkshire coast. Helping build a castle in France. Looking for bears in Finland’s forests, or whirling through Viennese coffee shops .

How to enjoy a bad place – After completing a 3,812 mile road trip around Britain’s worst places with the challenge of enjoying them, Tim Moore reveals six ugly, blighted and dull areas he succeeded in relishing.

Presenter and adventurer Ben Fogle – Fogle reveals talks about visiting an island that has had fewer visitors than space and eating boil-in-the-bag Christmas dinner in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean .

The Wild Woods – Romincka Forest in Northern Poland, one of Europe’s last pockets of wilderness is where writer Oliver Smith spent a night amongst the wolves wearing 8 layers of clothes.

10 Easy Trips – Celebrate rhubarb in Yorkshire, hunker down in a Norwegian igloo or visit the Star Wars planet Tatooine.

The Guide – This month, find out about unlikely art tours and how to master French cheese.

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