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Photo story: celebrating Holi festival in India's Braj region
The May issue of National Geographic Traveller celebrates weekend escapes with 52 ideas for flight-free breaks. With many destinations only a short drive, train journey or ferry ride away — and 21 of them in the UK and Ireland — there’s a wealth to choose from. From puffin-spotting in Wales and foraging in the French Alps to exploring Ireland’s Copper Coast on wheels and sampling the Slow Food movement in Italy, there are enough ideas to keep you inspired for a year of weekends away.
Elsewhere in the issue, we explore the wild and fragile frontiers of Antarctica and South Georgia; eat our way around Portugal’s Algarve region; sample local life in the shadow of Cambodia’s iconic Angkor Wat temples; enjoy a short break in the idyllic Croatian county of Istria; and examine the rising trend for secular pilgrimages.