Diana Jarvis

With July and August temperatures pushing 40C in the Med, cooler destinations like Sweden are fast becoming the new face of the European summer holiday

‘I’ve never considered taking a summer holiday in Spain or Greece – I’d regret, too much, missing out on a perfect Swedish summer day,’ Hårken tells me. We’re standing by a lighthouse on Valö, a rocky speck of an island in the Gothenburg archipelago, and the sky is a cloudless colouring-book blue.

The third annual celebration of sustainability in travel from Wanderlust Magazine looks at 50 destinations – plus accommodation – that show travel can be a force for good.

Last September, I embarked on the first Byway trip to Tunisia. To my absolute surprise, it only took just over 48 hours to get from London to Tunis. I’d already overlanded to Marrakesh in Morocco over seven days and Tirana in Albania in five, so getting to North Africa in just two day piqued my curiosity and wanderlust no end.
Day 1: London to Marseille
The first day of the trip was all trains: the Eurostar from London’s St Pancras to Paris followed by a short hop across Paris on the Metro to...

This epic but comfortable and surprisingly quick journey sets you up perfectly to explore Tunisia’s ancient sites, cuisine and medinas
‘Go on, try one,” says the man behind a mountain of Arabic sweets. He hands me a piece of makroudh, a honey-dipped semolina and date delicacy. It is still warm from deep frying and deliciously soft and sticky. I’m standing on an intersection between two cobbled medina streets in Tunis,...

A photostory about photographing wildlife in Northumberland's Farne Islands.

On Intrepid’s Albania Expedition, travel writer and photographer Diana discovers the quickest way to get to know a place is through its people.

“The most important monument here is the people” says Elton.

Elton Caushi, our leader on the Albania Expedition, is taking us on a walking tour of old Tirana. We start in the ultra-modern downtown part of the capital city yet, in just a couple of blocks, find ourselves in the higgledy-piggly backstreets among the pre-communist homesteads and decaying ...

In the ten or so years since the Black Mambas - the world’s first all-female anti poaching unit - was established, they’ve garnered plenty of column inches and air time.

So, after many hours’ travel, I step off the jeep into the hot, dry mid-afternoon warmth, and I’m in wild anticipation. And as I stand there with Cute, Leitah, Felicia, Debra and Collet, feeling their pride and confidence swell as they welcome us to their headquarters, I know I’m in the presence of greatness.

A flight-free adventure between the UK and North Africa offers the romance of slow travel alongside the opportunity to get to know some of Europe’s most famous artists, finds Diana Jarvis

Walking along Margate seafront one evening as the colourful swash of another Turner-esque sunset melted into the sea, I began to plot my flight-free adventure to Morocco.

I usually work as a photographer, but I’d...

Oualidia on the Atlantic coast of Morocco is situated at the far south-western end of the Sidi Moussa-Oualidia RAMSAR protected lagoon and wetland complex. This photo story is about some of the complexities of getting off the beaten track and dilemmas faced when photographing flamingoes in the wild.

As Intrepid Travel and sustainable operator Byway team up to offer flight-free trips, Diana Jarvis finds the joy is in the journey

Some people just love travelling. I don’t mean sipping limoncello in an Italian backstreet cafe or soaking up the sun in Mauritius, I mean the act of travelling – sitting on trains, buses or boats and watching the landscape roll by. As I stare out of the TGV window, marvelling at the mountainous peaks of Mont B...

Once a ‘hidden gem’, the blue city of Chefchaouen in northern Morocco, has become an Instagram sensation. Lured by the enduring appeal of its transcendental blue walls, the huge influx of visitors means the city is now at risk from overtourism.

On a cycling trip around Morocco, which she reached by traveling overland from England, writer and photographer Diana Jarvis found plenty to slow down for. She reflects on the true value and meaning of unhurried, sustainable travel.
“Riding a bike is like life. There are the ups and the downs. And you can’t have the downs without the ups,” says Hicham.
We’re in a basement room in a Marrakesh hotel and I’m exhausted after seven days traveling overland through France and Spain by train, bus and...

The West African nation of Senegal is lapped by the waves of the Atlantic to the west, woven with rivers, tributaries and mangroves in the equatorial south and ravaged by the winds and sands of the Sahel in the north.
The contrasts don't stop there; cultural influences from across Africa* as well as from French and Dutch colonial days have created a broad and cosmopolitan spectrum of architecture, music, da...

Photographing the Northern Lights or Southern Lights has become extremely popular in recent years. How do you make your images stand out?

If you’ve ever been out photographing the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis) you’ll know how lucky you need to be just see them. Getting your first picture in focus and without under exposing or blowing the highlights is pure excitement. But how do you create images that don’t just look like everyone else’s?

An introduction to taking photos at dusk in the 'blue hour'