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Images from photo contests run by the Agora app have deservedly made regular appearances on MailOnline throughout this year. And now staff members at the app have chosen their favourite pictures of 2020. But the next step, choosing the overall winner, is down to you. Agora is asking members of the public to vote for … Read more

Wake up and smell the roses. There’s a beautiful world of gardens at Britain’s ravishing historic homes waiting to be explored, from wisteria-covered walls to wonderful water features and bewitching woods where you’ll lose all sense of time. Here’s our pick of the best. ‘A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted,’ Sir Winston … Read more

Need to use up air miles before the end of the year? Here’s how you can spend them… on a trip to space! You can enter a draw for a seat on Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic service  But you must have at least two million Virgin Atlantic Flying Club points Emirates or Etihad points can … Read more

It’s hard to tell if my legs are wobbly because it’s the first time I’ve been ashore in four days or because I’ve just been on a steep climb. I’m on a cruise and walking holiday with Ramblers in the Canary Islands and, as both an active traveller and a cruise virgin, I’m curious to … Read more

Great British boltholes: The beautiful boutique pub that’s a heavenly reward for tackling Cambridgeshire’s Devil’s Dyke hike The Mail on Sunday’s Jane Knight checked into The Three Blackbirds, a dog-friendly pub in Woodditton The rooms would ‘not be out of place in a boutique hotel’, with oversized headboards and proper milk for tea And the … Read more

Britain at its best: Chalk up a walk along the ancient Ridgeway track, which takes in the mysterious Uffington White Horse, Iron Age hill-forts and Bronze Age burial mounds Kate Eshelby embarked on an ancient walk between Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire known as The Ridgeway For more than 5,000 years, drovers, traders and invaders have travelled … Read more