Travel Blog

If you’re planning a UK holiday and want something more exciting – and less crowded – than a beach break, set your sights on Scotland.

Our latest survey reveals current attitudes to travel, plans for 2021, the experiences you want to have and what Discover the World can do to help you future travel plans.

We’ve rounded up our recommended 2021 voyages that offer innovative ways to celebrate and honour our ocean.

Focusing on some of the island's lesser visited natural wonders, discover a different side of Iceland - the East.

Read on for our beginner’s guide to exploring the night sky, answering your questions about how to stargaze at home.

Feed your wanderlust and get inspired with our round-up of the best online travel experiences.

Do you know which country has the largest coastline? Or how to describe snow in Finnish? Are you familiar with the unicorns of the sea? And do you know the Adélie penguin from the Gentoo? Pit your wits against our bumper 30 question travel quiz. It’s an all encompassing travel trivia bonanza that will put your world knowledge to the test. Think you can score full marks?

Most people tend to visit Svalbard to see the midnight sun or the northern lights, but there is so much more to these icy islands. Here’s some of our favourite facts that may well surprise you about Norway’s far-flung Arctic archipelago…

We don’t know about you but with every day of social distancing and restricted travel that passes, our wanderlust grows ever stronger. Just because we are staying at home, it doesn’t mean that we can’t be dreaming of where we will be travelling to first. Here, we share the trips we will be embarking on, as soon as it’s safe for us to do so.

The Arctic is the northernmost region of Earth. Most scientists define the Arctic as the area above the ‘Arctic Circle’, a line of latitude about 66.5° north of the Equator. Within this circle are the Arctic ocean and the northern parts of Scandinavia, Russia, Canada, Greenland, and the U.S. state of Alaska. It is certainly spread out far and wide! You know about the Arctic’s sweeping tundra, ice-choked oceans, hardy people and incredible wildlife – but did you know all of this...

Read our isolation guide to bird watching at home, comparing some of the birds you may have been searching for on your travels with some British counterparts.