Our favourite things: February 2018
We've been here and we've been there, and our team have found a few things we thought we'd share
Hiking in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
Going wild
What: Chile's Route of Parks
Where: Running 1,500 miles from Hornopirén in central Chile, south to the Beagle Channel, through 17 of the country's national parks
Tell me more: It's the largest donation of privately held land in history, adding 11 million acres to Chile's national parks. Part of the land was gifted to the government by Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, former CEO of Patagonia clothing. gob.cl Amelia Duggan
Jump around
Get high at ZAPspace, a new trampoline park in London's Stratford. It's packed with drop slides, a dodgeball court and a tumble lane for fearless flippers. Once you feel suitably wobbly, find your legs at the venue's speakeasy, The Curious Fox. From £12. Stephanie Cavagnaro
Top 4: Silver screen hotels
The Plaza, New York // Almost Famous
Trivia: Famous guests include the late John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Degli Orafi, Florence // Room with a View
Trivia: The room with that view is 414
Relais Bourgondisch Cruyce, Bruges // In Bruges
Trivia: One of the most liked unmade scripts of the year in the Blacklist 2006 (it was made two years later)
Hotel Des Mille Collines, Kigali // Hotel Rwanda
Trivia: 1,268 people took refuge here during the Rwandan genocide
Source: Expedia's new Ultimate Movie Buff Hotel guide Maria Pieri
Sleep easy
The ancient inns of Japan seem to be having a moment. Historically a place for nomadic samurai and traders to rest up, ryokans look set to become the most popular type of place to bed down across the country. Airbnb is claiming a 600% rise in ryokan bookings for 2018. Josephine Price
Which music festivals are on our radar for this year?
Wonderflip, Udaipur // Josephine Price
Littlegig, Stellenbosch // Zane Henry
End of the Road, Wiltshire // Amelia Duggan
NOS Alive, Lisbon // Farida Zeynalova
Meadows in the Mountains, Bulgaria // Stephanie Cavagnaro
In numbers: Picasso's Guernica unpacked
27/03 – 29/07
when you can catch a new exhibition on the masterpiece at Paris' Musée Picasso
81
years since it was painted
1937
year of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica by Nazi and fascist Italian warplanes
25 x 11
the width and height in feet of the vast, monochrome mural
Connor McGovern
Published in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK)