Rev up for Europe’s fastest rollercoaster as Ferrari Land opens in PortAventura in Spain

The Red Force rollercoaster, at the Ferrari Land theme park, is also Europe’s tallest taking riders up 112 metres – and clocking in at speeds of 110mph

EU departure but … UK sees record-breaking increase in visitors

Visit Britain is predicting a bumper year for overseas tourists with a weak pound making the UK a more attractive holiday destination

Step aside Denmark. Norway takes world’s happiest nation crown

Knocking their Scandi neighbours off the top of the happiness index, Norwegians put their joyful outlook down to shared experiences, the great outdoors – and lots of country cabins

Spinning around: DJ Tiësto tops list of the world’s most-travelled musicians

The Dutch dance music don has clocked up more than 1.5 million career miles. The freewheelin’ Bob Dylan trundled in third

Dispute over ‘patriotism’ delays opening of Gdańsk’s new war museum

Poland’s conservative government has decided that the port city’s new landmark exhibiting the horrors of the second world war isn’t sufficiently nationalist

Nights at the museum: tales of being trapped in galleries, a cathedral … and a ‘hotel’

Inspired by the story of a gallery-goer getting trapped inside a German museum, we look at other occasions when visitors have outstayed their welcome … and the opening hours

From Barcelona to Malia: how Brits on holiday have made themselves unwelcome

The bad behaviour of British tourists abroad caused a surge in complaints to police in the Spanish city last year – but where else dreads their arrival?

Montenegro’s pristine Lake Skadar threatened by new resort

Tourism in Montenegro is booming, but the approval of plans for a new ‘eco-resort’ has led to protests from conservationists who fear it will threaten a stunning national park

Guardian readers on their worst holidays: rats, sewage and lots of vomiting

We asked for your worst holiday stories and you really came through, with a truly horrifying collection of vacation misery

Holy carp: how fish farming saved a Polish nunnery

An 800-year-old abbey near Kraków was facing financial ruin until prayers to St Anthony led to a successful new venture

Clean room, no beetles wanted: how a young Kafka hoped to write budget travel guides

Before writing his best-known works, Franz Kafka hoped to make millions with a series of “on the cheap” guides to European travel

Prehistoric cave art celebrated at new Lascaux centre in Dordogne

Lascaux 4, a spectacular replica of France’s most celebrated cave art using interactive guides and multi-screen displays, opens on 15 December

Paris to sell off bridges’ love locks and give the proceeds to refugees

The 65 tonnes of love locks removed from Paris’s bridges in the last 18 months are to be sold – and could raise €100,000 for refugee groups

France loses skiing pole position as US leads winter sports destinations

Lack of snow in Alps and Pyrenees sees US resorts overtake France as world’s top skiing destination for first time since 2012

East Germany’s old mines transformed into new lake district

Despite a €2.2bn regeneration programme, the Lusatian Lake District project, on land once occupied by the GDR’s industrial heartland, remains relatively unknown to non-east Germans. So we took a tour …