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Booking a last-minute bargain may be paradise for the frugal traveller, but it’s a stressful black hole of browser tabs and supposed cut-price deals for the rest of us. But when it comes to the Easter period, is finding a quiet break at bargain basement prices simply too much to ask?

Planning an Easter break? April is a great time to travel – you’ll be able to find fun, sun, thrills or even snow if you know where to look. Here are our recommendations.

A city of marked extremes, Mexico’s capital is home to more than 20 million inhabitants and has its own unique Latin buzz.

St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in many cities that boast large Irish populations, such as Dublin, Belfast, New York and Boston. It is, however, also celebrated in places you wouldn’t expect.

The Canadian city with chic appeal, Montreal has an attitude and sense of style that would be more at home in continental Europe than North America. 

“Everything that you're about to see is exactly as it was when Hemingway left. When he shut the door, he expected to be back a few months later, but he never was. He was suffering from severe mental illness at the time and before he could properly be helped, he shot himself.”

Most tourists are just searching for a towel-free sun lounger by the pool, but there are still some real mysteries out there worth searching a little harder for.

Ask anyone who has been to Barcelona about the city and you are likely to get a big smile and hear the so-clichéd-but-so-true words, “I love Barcelona!”

Our selection ranges from the bizarre to the macabre to the silly – are you brave enough to set foot in any of them?

March is a great time to travel – in many places it’s the shoulder season between chilly winter and Easter, when prices are hiked up, and in warmer climes, temperatures and humidity are usually low enough to make sightseeing a pleasure and not an endurance course. Fancy a trip to an...

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