Tom Allan

In a nation better known for futuristic cities, a cluster of small villages is clinging to the ancient tradit…

On a rocky headland north of Istanbul a lighthouse blinks out a warning, as it has done for more than 160 yea…

This shoulder of the Cheviot Hills has always been an edge-land. It marks the watershed between the Rule and …

On either side of the lane, the tall hedge banks stand sodden and between them a field is washing away down t…

I came to the Black Forest in search of simple pleasures - to walk and to eat. And on a hillside overlooking …

A genius, insists Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses, doesn't make mistakes - his errors are the "portals of discover…

When ultra-marathon swimmer Sarah Thomas clambered out of the dark waters of Lake Champlain, on the border of…

Taking a dip in the river is a national pastime here, with the River Aare the basis of the city's claim to be…

In a clearing in the forest, splashed with spring violets and patches of evening light, Irina Kashpei is chec…

It is 5.30am in southern Belarus. A pink moon hangs over flat fields tinged with frost, and as we arrive at t…

On the trail of rainforest legend, an explorer’s legacy and the world’s second-biggest hot spring

Auf Dominica ist eine Papageienart vom Aussterben bedroht. Ein Verein bringt zwei Tiere nach Deutschland. Vog…

Environmental activists and locals are organizing against the project, which would pass through 11 nature res…

Through the dust I can see a throng of men on horseback. They press and jostle until one rider bursts clear, …

The aim of the E40 project is an ancient one: to link the Black Sea with the Baltic, creating a navigable pas…

Protest gegen Umweltzerstörung E40 heißt das Projekt einer Wasserstraße vom Schwarzen Meer bis zur Ostsee. In…

Tom Allan joins Lewis Pugh as he bids to swim the length of the English Channel — and talks to others going f…

The combe above the beach echoes with the calls of chiffchaffs, and cock stonechats flick and churr on the wi…

Using ski lifts, hiking trails and climbers’ refuges, a new trip takes cyclists deep into the mountains

Since the conflict with Russia that began in 2013-14, tourism has dwindled in the city. And yet it still has …

Georgia’s Transcaucasian Trail offers striking landscapes, great food and barely any tourists in sight

The low buzz gives them away. The thatched roof I'm working on, perched on a hillside above the pigeon-grey K…

On his land in the Svaneti mountains, Zaza Vibliani shows off his family's watermill, set inside a tiny hut u…

Unnoticed and unfeted, a US swimmer is breaking the sport’s boundarie