Daniel Stables

5 days ago | lonelyplanet.com | Daniel Stables

I’m not Mancunian, but I have lived in Manchester most of my adult life – so it’s with a combination of great pride and outsider impartiality that I can say my adopted home is the most exciting city in the UK right now.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Daniel Stables

6 hours agoBeautiful bluebells and the Northern Lights feature in this week's Big Pictures. Join us as we take a few moments to relax and enjoy the beauty of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight through the stunning images you have sent us. Upload your images via BBC Weather Watchers …

3 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.com | Daniel Stables |Christian Kerber

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller(UK). Dresden's mural-adorned courtyards, modern artworks and yellow trams combine to make it an enigmatic city break destination. The Saxon capital offers laidback restaurants, riverside cafes and buzzing nightlife districts, all set in the shadows of its stately baroque buildings.

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Daniel Stables

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “Safe travels. And don’t touch the bomb!” It’s a disorientating message to hear crackling through my phone as my Deutsche Bahn train glides through the outer suburbs of Dresden on a chilly, darkening evening. I feel like Billy Pilgrim, the time-travelling protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’s war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, barrelling headlong into the 1945 firebombing that remains intertwined with the fate of this German city.

1 month ago | lonelyplanet.com | Daniel Stables

Japan is home to an estimated 80,000 shrines dedicated to the kami – nature spirits – of Shintō, the country’s indigenous folk religion. None are bigger, more famous or more memorable than Fushimi Inari, a complex of shrines and walking trails that sprawls up a mountainside in the east of Kyoto. No doubt you have seen pictures of the avenues between the shrines, lined with 10,000 vermillion (shrine gates), which are a huge hit on social media. There’s nothing like being there in person, though.