How to be cool in summer

It's been a steamy, sweltering, sizzling, sauna out there. But how do you make the most of those precious few days of sunshine without being hospitalised with heat stroke? Jagruti Dave has some tips on where to chill in the UK this summer.

Detox, retox in Slovenia

As access to the cosmopolitan, former Yugoslavian state gets even easier with a new flight from Ryanair in September, Liane Katz discovers a land of historical riches, fine wines and spas.

Head space

Miami Beach is the venue for the Winter Music Conference, an annual junket for dodgy house music.

Beach therapy

A spa resort on the stunning Baltic coast mixes traditional and modern treatments at ludicrously cheap prices.

Hungary’s lake district

Georgia Brown takes Ryanair's maiden flight to Lake Balaton and explores a landscape once largely unknown to Britons.

Seal of approval

For an ecotherapy session with the zen masters of the deep, don a wetsuit and head for the Scillies.

Reach for the sky

'I don't like yoga holidays but I don't want to live like a yogi' ... Hadley Freeman on how to get it right.

Italy’s final frontier

South Tyrol is an Italian region set apart - mainly by the Dolomites - giving it a distinctly Austrian twist. Claire Cozens reports.

20 best deserted beaches

It is travel's Holy Grail - powder-white sand, a turquoise blue sea and not another soul in sight. But unspoilt, secret beaches do still exist, and, as Gemma Bowes reveals, you don't always have to go to the ends of the earth to find one.