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No vaccinations are required, but the WHO recommends routine vaccines such as tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella before travelling. Ticks can be a problem when hiking, so you do need to take precautions. Wear long sleeves and trousers, and tuck your trousers into hiking socks when possible. Lyme disease and Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE) are both tick-borne, so always check yourself fully after hiking and carry a tick remover with you too, so that you can catch them quickly. Always make sure that you have suitable health insurance to suit your adventure travel and England also has an excellent pharmacy system where you can get consultations if you haven’t time to get to a doctor. Which, with NHS waiting lists an ongoing problem, can be tricky sometimes.

One of the highlights for many is the last section, which takes you along a series of iconic chalk cliffs called the Seven Sisters. From here the route soon descends into the old Victorian seaside resort town of Eastbourne, where you can have a well-deserved cooling swim, and our holiday includes a night here at the end so you can take it all in. We want you to choose the experiences that are exactly right for you.

Clicking on the link below will redirect you to the Wilderness Scotland website. You’ll also be provided with opportunity to have your senses soothed as you sit and listen to the inner patterns of energy of different trees, transformed into audible music. There are also other fascinating insights, involving the trees in the wood, including an important connection with the Home Guard in WW2. Imagine being in outside catering New Forest a place where the only other visitors are the creatures that choose to make the woodland their home.

Because, although it is one of Europe’s smallest countries, it has five national parks, a plethora of peaks, with over sixty of them hitting heights of over 1,800m, spectacular lakelands and nearly 300km of coast. The South Downs Way is a 160km National Trail open to walkers, cyclists and horse riders. It cuts through chalk escarpment, which has made it historically accessible and, therefore, always been favoured for traditional means of transport. It starts in the cathedral city of Winchester in Hampshire, crosses the South Downs National Park and finishes in the East Sussex coastal town of Eastbourne. The trail is a natural playground of unbroken, undulating utopia, where you follow a route through the many ages of English history.

It’s 50km from your starting point on this Lake District hiking holiday in Pooley Bridge, and takes place at the end of September. But it’s worth having an extra night there to pack up your backpack. For our Cotswolds holidays, they also operate between April and October.

• It’s also worth checking out our easy/moderate level walking holidays to see if they appeal to all family members.
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• Apart from that, England has no major health risks and it is also rabies-free.
• Ticks can be a problem when hiking, so you do need to take precautions.

Our aim is to genuinely exceed your expectations by providing you with customer service and a trip which is second to none. Our team handpick the best accommodation and know just where to go for a great coffee or amazing seafood. We’re experts in our field, so if you have any questions about our trips, we will be happy to help – please do get in touch. Our adventure holidays take you to places where you disconnect digitally and inject your life with slow travel experiences. Our teams are pumped to create cycling tours and walking trails through the wildest, most wonderful travel spots.

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The wettest months are April and May, and it then dries off until around October, but never put your rain jacket away. In the teens years, average temperatures in April were also in the teens, but now they can go well over 20C, hitting high twenties and beyond in the height of summer. The South Downs Way can get very hot in the height of summer too, with temperatures going over the 30C mark over several years now and, as there is little shade in some parts, it’s worth starting out early. Or just book for one of the cooler months, September being perfect. Although this starts in Scotland, the last few days of this long-distance walking trail are in England. St Cuthbert was known as the healing saint, and this walking way is certainly a restorative one.

Easter can get busy, and the summer months are also busy, but more so with day trippers to the towns and cities such as Bath. English people like to head to the coast in summer, so this is a good time to do the in-between coasts trail, on the Coast to Coast Path, which is open for self-guided tours between April and September. Although it’s worth giving Easter a miss, when the national parks that you walk through can get busy with day trippers. For more information, see our blog, Best Reddit time to visit England.

Explore our range of immersive group holidays to discover the most beautiful and stunning regions in England and Wales. If you are a family group we can arrange for various activities to be made available for your children to engage with, including bug hunting, puppet theatre, log walking, den building, scavenger and mini-safari-hunts. This adventure is suitable for small groups of up to 10 adults, perhaps as a corporate outing or a group of friends celebrating a special birthday or other occasion.

England opens up its green and pleasant lands to adventurers from March onwards, and then shuts up shop again at the end of October. So, to use a well known expression from the London Underground, ‘Mind the gap’, because there is a bit of a seasonal gap when it comes to adventures in England. Our South West Coast Path holidays, for example, are open from March to October, and the trail is at its busiest in June, July and August. Not only on the trail itself but also in terms of accommodation, so you need to book early for the height of summer.

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Choosing an experience with us helps support these dedicated individuals and organisations, ensuring their vital work continues to make a difference for generations to come. Step into a world of specially curated, uniquely personal, and thoroughly immersive nature experiences. Naturebreak is the very best of Britain’s natural world, brought to life by experts in an intimate and inspiring way. We always endeavour to ensure that your accommodations are aware of any dietary needs when we book your trip.

We rated all 15 main walking National Trails of England and Wales on how easy each is to walk without a car, end to end, by train and bus. A month-by-month guide to the best time to walk all 15 National Trails of England and Wales — by weather, daylight, crowds and midges. A service charge is sometimes included in restaurants and, if it is, a tip isn’t necessary. Quite often you’re given the option to add on a tip when you pay on a card machine and you’re given various options.

With Naturebreak, any experience you choose is thoughtfully designed by people with a genuine love of the outdoors. We understand how to make the time you spend in nature truly memorable, fulfilling and rewarding – and we do it with local partners in each area, many of them trusts, charities and other worthy causes. Yes, the water, or waw-uh if you’re chatting with many people in the south of England, is jolly good in England.

You may enjoy reading one of our team member’s account of walking solo in the Lake District. Please remember that a supplement will be charged as the cost of rooms and also luggage or private transfers (when applicable) is not shared. A practical guide to the best adventures in North Wales — canal aqueducts, River Dee white water, Anglesey boat trips, Snowdonia gorges and climbing — with real prices, durations, and bookable experiences on adventuro. It all got a bit complex, to say the least, after the UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020, which changed freedom of movement for many people overnight. One of the most recent changes has been the introduction of the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) for many countries around the world, in January 2025.

And of course, if you are travelling from the Netherlands, France or Belgium, you can also take the Eurostar train across the channel to London, and pick up another train from there. For more information on how to book tickets in England, see our blog, How to book cheap train tickets. Although it’s a cliché that it always rains in England, things are changing, with 2025 having had the driest spring in over a century. There is a significant north-south divide when it comes to English weather, although even those gaps are getting smaller. The English do like to talk about the weather a lot, however, because traditionally it’s unpredictable.

It sweeps away the post-summer haze and adds a vibrant, golden glow to the journey toward winter. Winter is still hovering, new year’s resolutions are waning and some of us are still keeping the windows out onto the world tightly closed. Check out some wonderful walking adventures which ensure that February will dazzle rather than frazzle you. Every hike is led by an experienced, first aid trained and fully insured mountain guide, so you can focus on the experience, not the logistics. Our team based in Northern England is here to help—schedule a call at a time that suits you. Our confirmed trips are guaranteed to depart so that you can book with confidence.