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Lizzie Enfield

Lizzie Enfield

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The booming new travel trend for book lovers

Forget the solo beach paperback: travellers are now joining structured reading retreats that mix books, place and community. At I'Brindellone, a...

22.09.2025 70

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Lizzie Enfield

The 'Nordic' escape you didn't know existed

With Swedish farmhouses, Viking churches and €4 fika, Estonia feels profoundly Nordic, without the eye-watering price tag. I am cycling around...

20.09.2025 60

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Lizzie Enfield

Why endurance events are the new escape

Across deserts, oceans and mountain ranges, a new kind of holiday is gaining ground – where pushing yourself to the limit is the whole point. We...

29.07.2025 30

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Lizzie Enfield

The rise of the slow swimming holiday

Swimming holidays are the ultimate in slow travel – and since the pandemic, they've become more popular than ever. The pale-blue copper domes of...

06.02.2025 40

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Lizzie Enfield

The nation that wants you to come and sleep

Sweden's long, cold nights might put you off going there in winter, unless, that is, you are in search of that elusive 21st-Century luxury: a good...

24.01.2025 70

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Lizzie Enfield