Andy Pietrasik

Jan 3, 2025 | theguardian.com | Andy Pietrasik

Maps can be cumbersome things. Especially when it’s windy. They can be pretty confounding even when the elements are in your favour. But we’ll come to that. We were on a hill – not the technical term – in Snowdonia (Eryri national park), attempting to find first a path, then a boundary line, and then a spur of land – at night-time. Each member of our group was equipped with a map, a compass and a head torch. The wind was high, the sun was down and it could have all felt like an uphill slog.

May 5, 2024 | msn.com | Andy Pietrasik

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May 5, 2024 | theguardian.com | Andy Pietrasik

The Bay of Arcachon, on the south-west coast of France, is a happy place. It must be, because I’ve been visiting it with my family nearly every year for the past 15 years. We usually rent a small apartment in Arcachon town for four or five days, but such is the draw that we have been known to make a two-hour drive just to spend the day there when we’ve been in that part of the world.

Jan 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Max Benato |Paul Tierney |Andy Pietrasik |Kate Abbott |Dixe Wills |Jess Cartner-Morley | +6 more

All the greats in one estate, FranceWhen you have a partner obsessed with architecture, you can’t expect to go on holiday without a detour to see some building or another. So if it’s a city break, that usually means a walking tour of the architectural highlights interspersed with visits to art galleries. But when we heard about Château La Coste it became clear that this would not be a mere detour but the entire reason for our trip to Provence.