21 places to go in 2021: ‘The holidays we’re dreaming of this year’

Instead of the travel hotlist we usually launch in January, writers across Europe pick the local spots they long to go back to when things open up

A stroll and a gourmet treat by the river at Amarante
My go-to place for escape is the mountains. In normal times, I’d make a beeline for the granite-strewn plateaux of Serra da Estrela or the wooded slopes of Gerês. But the ups and downs of lockdown have left me craving something a little less wild. I feel a need for repose, not action.