Adrian Bridge

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Adrian Bridge

Strangely for a cluster of islands at the frontline of global geopolitical tension, there is something remarkably calming about a visit...

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Adrian Bridge

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller(UK). For travellers looking to explore the peaks of Japan, it doesn’t get much better than the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, an extraordinary expedition through the country’s Northern Alps in the centre of the main island of Honshu.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Danielle Demetriou |Ronan O'Connell |Adrian Bridge |Sara Macefield

Our insider expert reveals her ultimate two-week itinerary around the Land of the Rising SunCloud-brushing skyscrapers, flashing neon and seas of salarymen. The rhythmic whisk of matcha in the stillness of a tatami mat tea room. The dancing hands of a sushi chef slicing sashimi on a cypress wood counter. Decadent quantities of world-class powder snow. Steam rising from a hot spring onsen bath. And the list goes on. Japan has long been a timeless haven of colourfully unique experiences.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Adrian Bridge |Sara Macefield |Emma Boyle |David Taylor

With a dazzling high-speed network and various magnificent scenic trains, this overlooked island should be on every enthusiast's bucket listTaiwan has been much in the news of late, and it's safe to say that the prime focus has not been the excellence and surprising variety of the island's scenic train routes. I shall return to the bigger picture, but for now I am soaking in a scene of quite stupendous beauty at the small mountainside railway station of Jhangnaoliao.

Feb 19, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Adrian Bridge

Adrian Bridge Travel writer 19 February 2025 8:00am GMT Of all the places to get holed up as Storm Eowyn wreaked havoc over the British Isles last month, I had the good fortune to find myself in the rather lovely holiday home located directly inside the railway station of Horton-in-Ribblesdale in North Yorkshire. I was in that part of the world to rediscover the joys of the Settle-Carlisle line – widely acknowledged to be the most scenic stretch of track in England – which in 2025 is marking...