Travel / Harriet Marsden

The Week UK • 9th October 2025

Experience Tanzania’s untamed wilderness from Lemala’s luxury lodges

No fences, no pylons, no concrete. That’s what allows the “Great Migration”, when more than a million wildebeest, zebra and gazelles cross the plains of the Serengeti in northern Tanzania, up to the Maasai Mara in Kenya in what is the biggest movement of mammals on Earth.

The Week UK • 2nd December 2024

Jumeirah Burj Al Arab: Dubai's outrageous peak of luxury

How many hotels can claim to be recognisable by their silhouette alone, like Peter Pan? The Jumeirah Burj Al Arab, Dubai's last word in opulent, excessive luxury, can.Since it opened its glass doors 25 years ago this week, the sail-shaped landmark has become so inextricably linked with the emirate state that it has become a must-see for any tourist.

The Week UK • 7th May 2024

My Arbor: a unique treetop retreat in the Dolomite mountains

My Arbor achieved what years of Brexit has so far failed to do: convinced me that I'm British, not European. This five-star treetop spa and wellness hotel appears in a forest in the Dolomite mountains of South Tyrol. That's an autonomous province in northernmost Italy, just a few miles from Austria.

The Week UK • 26th February 2024

Andaz Mayakoba Resort Riviera Maya: luxury ecotourism meets Mexican flair

Along Mexico's northeast Yucatán Peninsula, about half an hour south of brash tourist haven Cancún, lies the well-loved strip of Caribbean coastline, Riviera Maya. Halfway between the party central Playa del Carmen and bohemian beachtown Tulum you'll find Mayakoba: a 600-acre oasis of lagoons and canals that wind through dappled mangrove forests, and slip out over flour-like sand into the bright turquoise sea and the world's second largest barrier reef. The private complex is one of Mexico's for...

The Week UK • 26th February 2024

Mexico City travel guide: art and design

Being in Mexico City feels, I imagine, like being in Paris in the 1920s, or London in the 1960s: at the epicentre of a new world.

The Telegraph • 26th April 2021

I'm 29, I hitchhike and love street food – but my next holiday will be a cruise

I’m hardly your stereotypical cruiser. I’m not a retired couple on the hunt for fly-and-flop around the Caribbean. I’m only 29, I don’t enjoy black tie and I have limited tolerance for Americans. If I were feeling pretentious I might describe my travelling style as ‘wannabe local’ – translation, I hitchhike and eat questionable street food.

The Sunday Times • 1st March 2020

Joanna Lumley travels to Cuba and Haiti for a fascinating new TV show

One is absolutely communist and one is absolutely capitalist, but they’re both as poor as mice. Both are fashioned by revolutions: one by the great slave rebellion at the end of the 18th century and one by Fidel Castro’s, 60 years ago. They’re only about 57 miles apart, but they have almost no interest in each other.

The Independent • 11th February 2020

Pippi Longstocking turns 75: The legacy of Astrid Lindgren and the world’s strongest girl

She’s the strongest girl in the world. With her carrot-coloured pigtails, her striped mismatched socks and her freckles, she’s instantly recognisable.

The Sunday Times • 15th September 2019

Taste of the Hebrides: a gourmet cruise from Oban in Scotland

Fuelled by false bravado and whisky, I somehow found myself plunging into freezing Hebridean waters in my pyjamas. I bobbed in the inky water of Bernera Bay, off the Isle of Lismore, alongside some bemused seals, before clambering back on board the Glen Shiel, the newest member of the Majestic Line’s small cruise fleet.

The Independent • 12th June 2018

This Belgian archive claimed to hold all the world's knowledge – and anticipated the internet

Down a narrow cobbled street in Mons, a small medieval town in south Belgium, there is an archive where it is claimed all the world’s knowledge is held – on paper.

The Independent • 29th May 2018

Welcome to Fusterlandia, the Cuban design project that transformed a community

A stone’s throw from downtown Havana and its grand dilapidation is the unassuming village of Jaimanitas – and an architectural dreamscape. Inspired by his time in Europe and public architecture projects like Gaudi’s Park Güell, celebrated Cuban artist Jose Rodriguez Fuster went back to his fisherman roots and to the impoverished costal town to begin a transformative project. In 1975, he converted his own home into an art museum by adorning it with mosaic tiles. “I started building my dream,” h

The Independent • 11th April 2018

I joined a sex toy festival in Belgium to raise money and awareness

As I waded through the mud, swinging my spade like a medieval axe, I grew increasingly desperate to find a vibrator. And no, this isn’t a tale of rural sexual repression. This was the annual sex toy hunt in Wépion, Belgium. In a little village just outside of Namur, the capital of Wallonia, I found myself knee deep in a crowded, muddy field, digging for dildos at the highlight of the “Chasse aux Sextoys” festival.

Harriet Marsden

Experience Tanzania’s untamed wilderness from Lemala’s luxury lodges

Jumeirah Burj Al Arab: Dubai's outrageous peak of luxury

My Arbor: a unique treetop retreat in the Dolomite mountains

Andaz Mayakoba Resort Riviera Maya: luxury ecotourism meets Mexican flair

Mexico City travel guide: art and design

I'm 29, I hitchhike and love street food – but my next holiday will be a cruise

Joanna Lumley travels to Cuba and Haiti for a fascinating new TV show

Pippi Longstocking turns 75: The legacy of Astrid Lindgren and the world’s strongest girl

Taste of the Hebrides: a gourmet cruise from Oban in Scotland

This Belgian archive claimed to hold all the world's knowledge – and anticipated the internet

Welcome to Fusterlandia, the Cuban design project that transformed a community

I joined a sex toy festival in Belgium to raise money and awareness

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