Hire a cruiser or yacht for a UK boating holiday on the Royal River Thames, Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal in Scotland, or the famous Norfolk Broads. Explore Ireland with an Irish boating holiday on the River Shannon and Erne Waterways. Take a guided or self-led hike in the best countryside of the UK and Ireland. Walking holidays on coastal paths, gentle slopes, hills and dales, rugged mountains.

Choose road bike or mountain bike cycling holidays on country trails and rural by-ways. Check rail times and buy rail tickets online. Or go by coach – book these tickets online, too. If you’re going via London we have all the information you need to plan underground or over ground trips in London. If you’re travelling to or from Europe then check ferry schedules and book a ferry online.

The London of today promises something for everyone. The London Eye lifts visitors high above the river into vistas that stretch tight across the fading skies. Further down on the South Bank, the Tate Modern contains one of the world's most incredible collections of Modern Art, while the city's 30,000 stores and boutiques will exhaust even the most avid shopper, and its 6,000 restaurants are only too eager to demonstrate why Britons revere their chefs as celebrities.