My five-year-old daughter Saskia has a question. ‘Are we going to meet Zeus?’ she asks. This is after I’ve explained a little about Mount Olympus being th... read more
Georgian gentility: Steaming waters and a glorious skyline still draw basking beauties to ever-elegant Bath Bathing in Bath’s thermal waters has been popu... read more
The Russians have gone, so bag a Baltic bargain! How Latvia is one of Europe’s best (and cheapest) treasures The Daily Mail’s Adriaane Pielou roamed... read more
A carnival in the Canaries: Forget Rio de Janeiro, Gran Canaria is the place for a flamboyant pre-Lent party in 2017 Very few tourists consider the Canary Islan... read more
Don’t tell anyone — my teenagers would die of shame. But my favourite thing about our family villa holiday in Sicily were my 8am Embarrassing Dad nudie swim... read more
Things don’t get much more Ernest Hemingway than this. I’m standing in the back of a fishing boat, chugging around the island of Alphonse in the Seychelles.... read more
Singing the praises of a rarer Canary: La Palma’s quiet black sand beaches make for the perfect island getaway The Daily Mail’s Tamara Hinson explor... read more
How do you work up an appetite for a whole roast suckling pig? You can imagine the dish — cochinillo asado — being eaten by peasant farmers who would plough... read more
It is easy to dismiss Cheshire as a WAGs’ playground, but dig a little deeper and it proves to be a class act. Take the 1,000-acre, National Trust-owned T... read more
Conche des Baleines, Ile de Re, France A wild and dramatic beach in the remote north-west corner of France’s Ile de Re, it’s a favourite holiday spot for we... read more
Adventure it was, and one of the most marvellous mankind ever embarked upon, wrote the American journalist John Reed. His eyewitness account of the Russian Revo... read more
Take an English Victorian seaside resort with its grand hotels, prom and arcades, and plonk it several hundred miles away on a rugged coast overlooking the Bay ... read more
Were Indiana Jones finally to retire and decide to go into the hotel business, this is surely the kind of joint he’d open. It’s a brand new ‘adventure’ ... read more
There comes a moment in any parent’s life when you think: why? Mine comes as I dangle off a rope tethered to a ten-metre high rock-face in south-central Franc... read more
An Inspector Calls: London’s newly-refurbished Athenaeum Hotel fails on every front except for its slick new bar The Inspector checked in to investigate T... read more
Sometimes stiff competition is just the inspiration you need. And in late 15th and early 16th-century Rome, rivalry was fierce. Particularly between two of the ... read more
There’s many a lovely tearoom in the Highlands, but no restorative cuppa will match the one I had halfway up a mountain with a llama called Atticus. It was la... read more
When it’s a choice between visiting an archaeological site or watching Paul Hollywood film a documentary, the Great British Bake Off star wins hands down. W... read more
Gliding through the water with the sun blaring above, the only sound is the occasional tweet of birdsong or observation from our guide. Oh, and the slurp from m... read more
When sprinkling celebrity stardust on your mountain-top hotel, aim high. At the Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar in northern Oman, there is a glass-sided walkway p... read more
Look out!’ cries my eight-year-old daughter, Sofia. I turn on my sun lounger. Heading towards us at a steady, but determined, pace is an enormous camel. This ... read more
Follow the river to France at its finest: Cycling and kayaking the Loire Valley, that Gallic haven of castles and charm The Loire region of France is famed f... read more