In north-western Morocco, on a bay of the strait of Gibraltar, Tangier has spent its lifetime bending to suit the needs of an ever-changing world. Inside Cinéma Rif in Tangier, Morocco, Photograph: Hemis/Alamy When you’ve soaked in the baths and recovered from the ruin bars (typically in dilapidated buildings), take the EuroNight Ister on to Bucharest, then finish the route on the Bosphorus Express, a 19-hour train from the Romanian capital to Istanbul, stepping out to the Golden Horn.Īll the same city stops, from about £175 – a fraction of the whopping £19,145 for the Orient Express – and you won’t get in trouble for wearing jeans in the dining car.
Then catch the Nightjet sleeper to Munich, and, after sampling a beer hall or strolling the Englischer Garten, jump on another Nightjet train to Budapest. Start with the Eurostar from London to Paris. It costs a small fortune for a ticket, but there is a far cheaper way to take the same route – as long as you’re flexible on that wooden panelling. Today, the train lives on as the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which runs from London to Istanbul once a year. Of course, the route also provided the setting for Hercule Poirot’s most famous case. The train has always been first-class only the carriages all opulent wood panelling and lavish furnishings. Photograph: Tony Eveling/Alamyįew trains are more storied than the Orient Express, which began carrying passengers from Paris to Istanbul – dinner jackets, bow ties and all – back in 1883.
View from Galata Bridge looking towards Suleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul. After work? It’s not hard to find good local wine in the Apennines, either. The mountains and lush vegetation also hide glistening rivers, caves and canyons, and the open hillsides support Apennine chamois, red deer and wild boars, making for world-class wildlife watching. Look up and you could spot a golden eagle or griffon vulture circling the skies. It’s not only bears and wolves you might see in the hills. Volunteers live together in guest houses (for €300 a month) and work with the local team to set up camera traps, track local wildlife and work with local communities on coexistence actions – doing anything from building electric fences to pruning fruit trees. The environmental charity runs a volunteer programme (1 February-15 December), which allows biodiversity enthusiasts to become “bear ambassadors”, staying at one of three scenic communes – Ortona dei Marsi, Gioia dei Marsi or Pettorano sul Gizio – where historic architecture is surrounded by lush greenery. It’s here, surrounded by limestone peaks, that Rewilding Europe is working to create wildlife corridors linking two national parks – Abruzzo, Molise and Lazio, and Majella – to the Sirente-Velino Regional Park, with the ultimate aim of extending the range and abundance of bears (and other wildlife) within the parks – as well as bringing new economic opportunities to local communities. Marsican brown bears and wolves roam the mountainous grasslands and ancient beech forests of the Central Apennines, in the heart of Italy, just 90 minutes from Rome. īecome a bear ambassador in the Central ApenninesĪ marsican brown bear. A bed costs €15-35 a night, with discounted prices if you join the Austrian Alpine Club.īook in advance – this is a well-organised nation of hikers.
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Order Käsespätzle, Austria’s godly answer to mac and cheese, topped with crispy onions, for a carb boost.
The huts are high quality – wide sloped roofs, wooden beams and scenic terraces. For a longer holiday, start in Innsbruck and head west to St Anton, taking high, wild trails out to the loose paths and scree slopes of the Eppzirler Scharte, and later to views of Germany’s high point, the Zugspitze, and Valluga, which looks out over Arlberg. Highlights include the first three sections from St Johann to Kufstein, which take you past the Schleier waterfall, the glimmering Hintersteiner lake and through the spear-headed Wilder Kaiser mountains. There are a further nine stages (not connected to the first 24) between the Venediger mountains and the 3,798m Großglockner, Austria’s highest peak, in East Tirol. It’s broken into 24 stages between Kitzbühel in the east, via Innsbruck, to St Anton in the west. The Eagle’s Way, or Adlerweg in German, runs the length of Tirol – stretching 256 miles in total. Perhaps he was gazing at the gorgeous Nordkette mountain, backdrop to the city of Innsbruck, when he scribbled: “Here, finally, I have found a place of quiet – a place of peace the likes of which I could have only wished for.”Īlmost 200 years later, the Austrian region is still renowned for that tranquillity.
In 1829, the German poet Goethe arrived in Tirol.
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