Buying Christmas gifts for someone who loves travel should be easier than it is. You know what they care about. You know what makes them light up. And yet every year you end up panic-buying something practical — a packing cube, a travel adaptor, a neck pillow — that says "I know you travel" rather than "I know you."
The best Christmas gifts for travel lovers aren't about the journey. They're about the destination — the places they've been and the ones they're dreaming about. Here's what to buy.
A Print of Their Favourite Destination
The Christmas gift that will get the best reaction in the room. A watercolour print of the place they love most — their Italian obsession, the Greek island they've been to four times, the French city they keep promising to go back to — is the most personal thing you can wrap. It goes on their wall on Boxing Day and it's still there twenty years later.
At Sundays In Tuscany we make watercolour destination prints of the European places people love most. Twenty-five destinations including Tuscany, Positano, the Amalfi Coast, Santorini, Mykonos, Lisbon, Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Florence, Lake Como, Venice, the French Riviera, Cornwall and the Cotswolds. A4 from £17.99, A3 from £36.99. Free UK shipping on every order.
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A Gallery Wall Set
Three prints of three different places, wrapped together. If they've been to Italy more than once, give them Tuscany, Positano and the Cinque Terre. If they love Greece, give them Santorini, Mykonos and Kefalonia. A set of three prints is a gift that transforms a wall — and it's the kind of present that people remember long after the Christmas tree has come down.
A Great Travel Memoir
Travel writing at its best makes you feel like you're somewhere while you're sitting on the sofa in January. Patrick Leigh Fermor's
A Time of Gifts for the literary traveller. Frances Mayes'
Under the Tuscan Sun for the Italy obsessive. Matthew Fort's
Eating Up Italy for the food-and-travel lover. A beautiful hardback edition, wrapped well, is a Christmas gift that lasts the whole winter.
A Cooking Class in a Cuisine They Love
January is bleak. A cooking class in February gives them something to look forward to. Regional Italian, Greek mezze, Moroccan spices — a class built around the food of a place they love connects their passion for travel to their ordinary life in the best possible way.
A Future Trip, Half-Planned
The most exciting thing you can put under a Christmas tree is a card that says "I've looked at flights and I think we should go here in spring." You don't need to have booked anything — the research itself is the gift. The intention. The evidence that you've been thinking about what they love and where they want to go.
The Gift That Goes on the Wall
Most Christmas gifts are consumed — eaten, drunk, used up, forgotten by February. A destination print goes on the wall in January and is still there in December the following year and the year after that. Every time they look at it, every guest who asks about it — it keeps giving. That's rare in a Christmas gift. Genuinely rare.
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