The best festivals in France, 2010

The France Magazine editor on the best festivals across the country, from a red wine marathon to water jousting

• 10 alternatives to skiing in France

52 brilliant weekend breaks for 2010

That’s what you’ve got — and, this year, don’t waste a single one. We have your 2010 planned out

The first superscraper

The world’s tallest building, the £1 billion Burj Dubai, opens for business this week — if it can find any

Wild Girls hit the Klosters slopes

It may be royalty’s resort of choice, but the swish Swiss ski town has opened its heart (and its fat wallets) to this mad annual charity bash

Ice diving in the French Pyrenees

As skiers flash past above, Nicholas Roe discovers a world as beautiful as it is deadly on a lake dive beneath the ice

Times Walks: Hadrian’s Wall

A light dusting of snow over Hadrian’s Wall, with the Whin Sill cliffs riding west from Housesteads

• Times Walks: Cam Valley, Somerset

• Times Walks: Hope Dale, Shropshire

Skomer Island: Britain's best job?

The job of warden on the beautiful Pembrokeshire island is no match for Queensland's PR stunt

• Wanted: bird warden (must like lots of puffins)

• Sting in tail of 'best job in the world'

A well fed fit camp in the Moroccan sun

Will 2010 be the year when you get fit? Give yourself a head start by booking a holiday where you can shape up in the sun

• Ayurveda detox heaven in Kerala, India

• Where to go for that makeover break

The Bath Priory Spa, Bath

An Aboriginal-based treatment in a spa annex straight out of Jane Austen's time

• The Lido Spa, Bristol

• Thermae Bath Spa, Bath, Somerset

The Times travel photo competition

View the January 9 finalists and weekly winner. Win a skiing holiday in the January competition

Your travel smugshots

November's best entries and December's snowy winner. Send your wintersports and snow shots for our new competition

Red Sea: the complete guide

Desperately seeking sunshine? Egypt has a coastline that was built to banish winter blues

Mozambique's lost islands

Head to Quirimba, an exotic escape where delicate ecosystems combine with a fractious history

Profile: Telecoms boss Ian Carr

The MD of Team Simoco explains why he always packs his pyjamas and discusses the company's Beijing sickbed

In awe of Oman's green turtles

Michael Evans enjoys some winter sunshine and meets a man who's hell bent on saving an endangered species

Camping with BeBop in the Arizona desert

If you’re going camping in the Arizona desert, the first thing you need is a tent. The second thing is a lot of goats