Getting out when you can’t go anywhere The world is closed. So where can you go when you can’t go anywhere, but you’ll go crazy if you don’t get out? As we go to print, people are still able to go out for exercise, which confers a multiplicity of health and mental wellbeing benefits. A…

Winter sun escapes There are times when you need to have a break from winter’s endless march of grey days and grey faces so take yourself off to warmer climes. Our winter sun picks range from a balmy Tenerife to a sizzling hot Goa, via Cape Verde and Florida. Decide on how warm you want…

Scotland’s hidden treasure If you’ve never experienced Shetland, then you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s always a dark, cold, wet, treeless and barely habitable spot. And you’d be wrong, so very, very wrong. Even in the depths of winter, Shetland has a lot going for it. Lonely Planet’s experts ranked the islands in…

It is difficult to deny that the dark, cold days of winter can be a bit trying. Which is all the more reason to seek out activities full of light, warmth and the best mood lifter of all – food. Winter Festivals are a perfect antidote to the seasonal doldrums. Aberdonians love winter, and it…

Hidden pleasures of Poland Getting there is pretty easy, with flights from Aberdeen to Gdansk in the north of the country, Edinburgh to Warsaw Chopin or low cost carriers out of Glasgow to Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice or Wroclaw. Krakow makes the perfect base for a long weekend or city break. It’s a typically beguiling Mittel-Europe…