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A waiter wearing a face mask serves drinks at Cafe Florian in Venice. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images ‘Living day by day’ – Venice and Florence without tourists
  • Fionn Davenport
  • September 12, 2020, 06:00

With the usual deluge of tourists to the Italian cities now a trickle, how are residents surviving?

‘Currarevagh: The place I’ve dreamed of the most during lockdown’ ‘Currarevagh: The place I’ve dreamed of the most during lockdown’

Artist Fergal McCarthy on why, over the past few months, he has been imagining an escape to this hideaway on Lough Corrib

A family affair: The siblings working in Irish hospitality A family affair: The siblings working in Irish hospitality

Familiarity breeds contentment in some of our best-loved family-run hotels and country houses

The slow road: The beauty of campervans and motor homes The slow road: The beauty of campervans and motor homes

‘In a campervan you can travel in a safer and more environmentally-friendly way, seeing great stuff along the way’

Land of the giants: A wander through Cavan’s heartland Land of the giants: A wander through Cavan’s heartland

The area is full of mythical tales and hidden gems – just don’t try to replicate your sun holiday

Ireland

Currarevagh House in Oughterard, Connemara, Co Galway has been open to guests for 130 years, making it the longest-running hotel in Ireland owned by the same family ‘Currarevagh: The place I’ve dreamed of the most during lockdown’

Artist Fergal McCarthy on why, over the past few months, he has been imagining an escape to this hideaway on Lough Corrib

Francis (left) and John Brennan run the Park Hotel in Kenmare, Co Kerry. A family affair: The siblings working in Irish hospitality
Clough Oughter Castle, Lough Oughter, Co Cavan Land of the giants: A wander through Cavan’s heartland
  • 36 hours on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast: ‘Everyone is having a wild time’
  • Conor Pope’s staycation diary: ‘It’s like I’m staring at a Polaroid of my childhood holidays’

Europe

A waiter wearing a face mask serves drinks at Cafe Florian in Venice. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images ‘Living day by day’ – Venice and Florence without tourists

With the usual deluge of tourists to the Italian cities now a trickle, how are residents surviving?

Goodbye, airfares: when our Ryanair flight leaves for Greece next week, we won’t be aboard. Photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Keep our money if you must, Ryanair. We’d rather lose our airfares than board our flight
Wish you were here? While countries across Europe are beginning to reopen their tourist markets, Irish people still have no idea if they are coming or going. Photograph: Getty Images Why you still can’t have a European holiday this summer. Or can you?
  • Irish travel agents call for 'clear guidelines' as airlines launch summer schedules
  • Irish holidaymakers will not be barred from Greece when tourism restarts

Long Haul

Inside the Virgin Galactic spaceship. Photograph: Spaceship Co/Virgin Galactic via Getty Two windows for $250k: Virgin Galactic unveils its moodily lit spaceship cabin

SpaceShipTwo comes with all mod cons, including cameras to film you escaping gravity

Lake Michigan: In summer, the weather is usually glorious, so it’s all about the outdoors – there’s lots of water sports from paddleboarding and surfing to boating and water-skiing. Photograph: iStock In search of the kind of America I’d always heard about in Michigan
Almost 900 years since its construction, Angkor Wat remains a masterpiece Exploring the temples of Angkor, where civilisation and nature entwine
  • Sonya Lennon: We swapped our family sun resort holiday for an Indian adventure
  • A bumpy, noisy, chaotic and unforgettable journey through Vietnam

Walks

St Declan’s Way pilgrim route is 18km long. Walk for the Weekend: Mount Melleray, Co Waterford

St Declan’s Way is an ancient pilgrim route linking Cashel with Ardmore

Expansive views at Templecronan Loop, Co Clare Walk for the Weekend: Templecronan Loop, Co Clare
There is much to explore at Blarney Estate, Co Cork Walk for the Weekend: Blarney Estate, Co Cork
  • Walk for the Weekend: Beara-Breifne Way, Co Cork
  • Wicklow Way walk for all seasons

Welcome to My Place

Tara McLoughlin in Stirling, Scotland Welcome to my place ... Stirling, Scotland
  • March 8, 2020

There’s a pride in the rich history of this place and a deep appreciation for the arts

Valerie O’Hanlon (right) on Ponte delle Scalzi (Scalzi bridge) with her sister Evelyn O’Hanlon Casserly (left). Welcome to my place . . . Venice
Breda Gallagher in Estepona, Spain. Welcome to my Place . . . Estepona, Spain
  • Welcome to my place . . . Moscow
  • Welcome to my place ... Birmingham

Travel Deals

Active luxury in Kerry in a hotel with postcard-perfect views Active luxury in Kerry in a hotel with postcard-perfect views

Travel Bag: Plan an escape with these holiday ideas around Ireland

Sligo foodie tours, Barcelona ecoluxury, Cork staycation Sligo foodie tours, Barcelona ecoluxury, Cork staycation

Travel deals: Plan an escape with these holiday ideas in Ireland and abroad

New London hotel, just the fit for fitness-lovers, and breathtaking Prague views New London hotel, just the fit for fitness-lovers, and breathtaking Prague views

Travel deals: Plan an escape with these holiday ideas in Ireland and abroad

London designer bolthole, afternoon tea at Lismore Castle, five-star-plus Bali London designer bolthole, afternoon tea at Lismore Castle, five-star-plus Bali

Travel deals: We check out the latest offers so you don’t have to

Travel News

Where can I travel abroad to now? Well, it’s complicated

Where can I travel abroad to now? Well, it’s complicated Conor Pope: We are likely to have the ‘green list’ for another month, before it is replaced by an EU-wide traffic-light system

Travel green list to be updated before being scrapped in October

Travel green list to be updated before being scrapped in October Current approach to restrictions will be replaced by EU-wide traffic light system

Being a travel agent in 2020: ‘No new bookings ... We are devastated’

Being a travel agent in 2020: ‘No new bookings ... We are devastated’ Covid-19: Revenue hit for over 300 travel agents and tour operators since early March

Green list Q&A: What has changed, where can I go, and who can come here?

Green list Q&A: What has changed, where can I go, and who can come here? Conor Pope looks at what the latest travel advisory means

Travel insurers call for clarity on overseas travel

Travel insurers call for clarity on overseas travel Government publishes ‘green list’ of countries considered safer but keeps advisory against all travel abroad

West’s awake as staycation interest soars

West’s awake as staycation interest soars Property website shows searches for holiday home rentals climbing by over 100 per cent

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If your son is open to it, you could consider getting a professional assessment My 15-year-old son has developed unusual obsessive behaviour
‘Living with my parents, who are in their 60s, has been very difficult.’ Photograph: Getty Images I had to move back home – and I can’t stand hearing my parents’ loud sex
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘They want us to vacate this place so they can use it as a love shack?’

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1 Coronavirus restrictions: A view of a Garda checkpoint in Fairview, Dublin over the weekend. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times Róisín Ingle: We’re in a different pandemic place now. Nobody’s quoting Seamus Heaney anymore
2 The Guild of Fine Food’s Great Taste awards values taste above all else Great Taste awards: Irish food producers win 19 top ratings – their most successful year yet
3 Apple, cheddar and thyme scones. Photograph: Harry Weir The secret to an airy and light scone with a pillowy interior
4 A new book argues doctors and patients speak different languages when it comes to disease and illness. Photograph: iStock The Covid-19 pandemic is changing the way we speak
5 Going for the sensible option isn’t always a good idea. Photograph: iStock Getting teenagers to apply for a ‘career’ degree is a complete nonsense
6 Cleaning up a house in Dublin 4 after it was vacated by a tenant who left it in a squalid and damaged state while owing €55,000 in rent arrears. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell Unpaid rent, destroyed properties: Landlords’ tales from the rental market
7 The Great British Bake Off contestants 2020: (left to right) Hermine, Sura, Rowan, Marc, Laura, Linda, Mak, Dave, Loriea, Lottie, Mark and Peter. Photograph: Channel 4/Mark Bourdillon/Love Productions Great British Bake Off: How they got around social distancing in the tent
8 Kane Tanaka is usually up by 6am and enjoys studying mathematics. Photograph: Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP 117-year-old woman who loves cola and boardgames breaks another record
9 We quickly settled into a new pattern of taking temperatures with breakfast Back to school: We went into a tailspin when our eldest had a temperature
10 Prof Luke O’Neill, director of Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Prof Luke O’Neill: ‘It’s definitely beatable, Covid-19’
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