Craig Tansley

As Cuba re-emerges as a destination, and with the Americans yet to return, now is the time to experience this fascinating time-capsule country.

With more than 300 days of sunshine, any time seems like a good time to visit the Gold Coast. But each season offers something different.

With a subtropical climate and more than 300 days of sunshine a year, there’s never a bad time, but each season brings with it unique reasons to love the place.

The Gold Coast has changed since you went there as a kid. Here are six undiscovered highlights from hidden speakeasy bars to retro motels and revamped industrial areas.

First-person musings and humorous anecdotes about visiting Telluride during winter and the strange people the author meets along the way.

Biking purists hate e-bikes. Just ask ’em. But electric bikes have revolutionised cycling worldwide and make longer cycling journeys accessible to all of us. You or I could do the Tour de France on an e-bike. During the first year of Covid alone (2020-2021) e-bike sales increased by 240 per cent in Australia, while in the US, they outsold their electric car counterparts two to one.

There’s a hotel or resort here to suit every kind of traveller, from five-star-plus seaside hotels to retro-hip retreats.

New Mexico’s arty desert vibes, West Virginia’s rapids, Canada’s northern lights: North America’s travel hits from Good Weekend’s 2023 Dream Destinations issue.

New Mexico’s arty desert vibes, West Virginia’s rapids, Canada’s northern lights: North America’s travel hits from Good Weekend’s 2023 Dream Destinations issue.

I’m walking down a dirty alleyway in Saigon’s First District. I’ve turned off the main drag and now I’m shadowing a local I just met who’s showing me the way to what he calls the best new bar in the city. He looks harmless enough. We walk past old run-down manufacturing stores, take a lift up a couple of floors, and push through a door with no signage into a hidden speakeasy called Hmm.