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Top 10 restaurants in Turin, Italy

As thousands of foodies and producers descend on Turin for the Salone del Gusto food festival, we pick the best trattorie to indulge in fantastic regional food

Tell us about your favourite holiday tour guides

Wanderlust magazine has announced the winners of its annual World Guide Awards. Have you ever had a guide who transformed your travelling experience?
Salisbury in top 10 cities in the world, says Lonely Planet

Wiltshire city listed along with Washington, El Chaltén and Zermatt in travel guide's selection of places to visit in 2015
- Republic of Congo surprise choice on Lonely Planet's 2015 wishlist
Skiing in Afghanistan – it's one hour up and two minutes down

There's no ski lift and no chalets, but a growing number of adventurous skiers are heading to Afghanistan for virgin snow and warm hospitality
Cool city tours: guided walks that come with a twist

There's nothing pedestrian about our selection of top 10 walking tours around world cities; it's especially good for travellers who don't like tours

Beach breaks

World's top budget beach pads

Prime spots on the world's finest beaches at affordable prices, from Thailand to Croatia, Brazil to Greece

UK hotel guide

British boltholes

Find the perfect hotel or B&B with our reviews from around the UK
- Interactive UK hotel guide
- The best city hotels in the world

Where to go in England

Interactive map

Explore our searchable map - including great days, beautiful beaches - and even the odd pub or two
- Secret Britain: Kevin Rushby explores the country's unsung corners

Readers' competitions

Berlin: send us a tip

A low-key cafe in the capital of cool or great little market? Post a travel tip on GuardianWitness and you could win a £200 hotel voucher
Readers' travel photo competition: win a trip to South Africa

The theme of October's competition is road trips. Enter your image at GuardianWitness
Eleszto Bar, Budapest

Shane Ant With a mix of 20-plus IPA, stout, weiss and other beers from its own brewery and others in Hungary, Austria, etc, and open until 3am every night, it was the best bar we found in the city. Thanks to a couple of unis nearby, it attracted a young and relaxed crowd
The Baker's Table, Talgarth, UK

pinusSyl If you're walking in the Brecon Beacons, the Talgarth Mill Café is well worth a visit. In a restored mill the cafe is an attraction in itself. They serve tea, very good coffee, lovely home-made cakes and lunch dishes with the option of takeaway drinks and cakes and freshly-baked bread
Mont Blanc, Tervuren, Belgium

AlastairP A classic ice-cream parlour set in a beautiful Flemish town just outside Brussels. Enjoy sitting outside, in the continental tradition, overlooking the town square with a fountain
Coffee and Vinyl, Antwerp, Belgium

steviem44 Outstanding well ordered range of well priced new pressings of rarities, with notably extensive and varied selections, particularly in reggae. Those who care less for vinyl can sit with a coffee or beer and a tasty bun and peruse the papers by the windows
Clown Motel, Nevada, USA

LuckyTheClown A clown-themed motel overlooking a cemetery full of-plague victim gold miners? Count me in. This is the cheapest motel in the picturesquely-faded high desert town of Tonopah, a fittingly strange pitstop midway between Vegas and Reno

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