The world’s longest meal?
“Do you want to try Stalin's favourite wine?” asked my Georgian friend Nino. The art of making Georgian wine After harvesting, the grapes...
Welcome to ‘surfer nirvana’
The Liberian city of Robertsport is blessed with four pillars of surfer nirvana: perfect waves, warm water, an empty line up and an exotic...
KidZania: the theme park where kids play at being adults
Suzanne Moore visits Istanbul’s KidZania
“You don’t expect me to enjoy this, do you?” she says. “Yes, I bloody well do. That’s why we have come...
10 of the best Christmas attractions in the UK
Burning the Clocks, Brighton
Beautiful lanterns made from paper and willow are produced by Brighton and Hove folk in preparation for the annual “burning of...
The foodie traveller … in Stockholm: the new take on coffee and cake
The traditional fika, which means a rendezvous for a coffee and a pastry, has been part of Swedish culture since the 18th century –...
Hoyma – the Faroe Islands’ homespun music festival
It’s 4pm, shortly before dusk. Cupped in mountains, Sydrugöta is a cat’s cradle of streetlights beside a fjord turned to pewter in the fading...
India’s temples of sex
In December 2013, India’s LGBT community suffered a severe setback as the country’s Supreme Court ruled homosexuality to be a criminal offence. More recently,...
An unusual route to a road-less village
Isolated for centuries
Cloistered within dramatic mountains of the Great Himalayan range – averaging an altitude of 3,600m and sprinkled with peaks as high as...
Italy’s mysterious hallucinogenic drink
During the day, the two iron portcullises at number 10 Via Fratelli Calandra are tightly closed. There are no signs, and the graffiti that...
The city with a chip on its shoulder
I don’t know who invented the term “Second City”, but I’m willing to bet it wasn’t someone who lived in one. Yes, technically a Second...
The tiny forest on the world’s edge
Every year, travellers head to Patagonia to marvel at the vast glaciers, huge open skies and soaring mountains. But at Omora Ethnobotanical Park on...
The places that ‘don’t exist’
Kolja Spori packs light. For a short trip, it’s nothing more than a travel jacket, the pockets stuffed with underwear and a toothbrush. For...
The best places to live this year
2015 has no shortage of must-see...
‘Thank you Montenegro’
Driving south of Dubrovnik along the Dalmatian Coast, I looked out my rental car window and saw the sun reflecting off the Adriatic several...
Canowindra, Portree, Isle of Skye: B&B review
There’s a lovely coincidence to welcome us to Canowindra when we arrive late one sunny September afternoon, after a day’s swimming in Skye’s Fairy...
My Kyrgyzstan adventure
The horses had been brought in from the hills and were tethered next to a pile of drying dung. All around were snowcapped peaks...