Great British Journeys
This is guide to the most jawdroppingly beautiful trips you can take through Britain’s landscape. Whether it's getting an open top bus along the coast, riding a steam train up a mountain, floating along an idyllic river, driving through spectacular hills or strolling in an amazing valley, there’s an adventure here for everyone. And the chance to slow down and connect with our landscape and heritage in a way that’s rare these days.
These are the kind of routes where the views just get better and better every time you turn a corner. And most of them can be done in a day, so you don’t have to wait forever to have the trips of a lifetime.
Richard Madden has been a travel writer specialising in 'Adventure Travel' for more than 25 years, ten years of which as Adventure Travel Editor of The Telegraph. He has visited all seven continents and crossed the Andes on horseback, crewed a Whitbread Round the World boat, cycled across America and skydived with the Red Devils. Now his next challenge is to find Britain’s greatest journeys.