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  • Vietnam

    Vietnam

    You’re nobody in Ho Chi Minh City unless you have a scooter. Only then can you transport friends, family, livestock and market produce – usually all at the same time – and blend into the buzzing 3.5million-strong swarm which zips, ant-like, around town. Despite the relative safety of a people carrier, the journey to my hotel is one sharp intake of breath after another as seemingly inevitable collisions are averted almost every second.

  • Scotland - Cameron House

    Scotland - Cameron House

    By Martin Deeson

    Few hotels in Scotland can boast a setting as dramatic as Cameron House. Perched on the shores of Loch Lomond, the view is an ever-changing panorama of heather and weather and water and mountains. Turn round and face the room and your view is of the Glen Lossie Suite: a four-poster bed, a roll-top copper bath, tartan wallpaper and a stag’s head trophy. Welcome to one of Scotland’s finest hotels. Now for dinner...

  • Seychelles

    Seychelles

    Seychelles: jellyfish trees, the planet’s heaviest tortoise and an emblem of a tourism industry that resembles a large human bum. The coco de mer symbol – of which the locals are inordinately proud – appears everywhere. It even gets stamped in your passport and is so realistic it can be faintly embarrassing. But then, the Seychelles, 115 of the oldest oceanic islands on earth, does ‘different’ rather well.

  • Singapore

    Singapore

    As the focal hub for all South East Asia, Singapore is too often treated as a fly-through city. Next time, try making your stay a little longer, even if it’s just for one day.

  • Stockholm

    Stockholm

    By Eugene Costello

    The last time I went to Stockholm, it was January, the honey-coloured buildings of the Old Town – Gamla Stan to Stockholmers (and smarty-pants) – were dappled with flecks of silently falling snow and the day was about six hours long. (Employers, take a leaf and all that…)

  • Sweden

    Sweden

    By Eugene Costello

    We stood at the small wooden jetty with our bags, watching the rapidly disappearing cruiser that had taken us here churning up the waters of the Baltic Sea like a jet bike in the local swimming pool.

  • Paris

    Paris

    Once you’ve started Saturday lying in a Four Seasons bed looking up at the Eiffel Tower you just know you’re going to have a good weekend. And then the breakfast arrives and you know that whatever else that day may hold, one of the things you won’t be needing is lunch.

  • Provence

    Provence

    Two types head for the South of France: those who want to be seen and those who don’t. Those who do crowd together on the coast, jangling their jewels in the Negresco and Eden Roc, and enduring nose-to-tail traffic jams as they crawl along the Corniche. Those who don’t love the region as much for its broom-covered hills as for its raffish, scintillating seaside; for the dry heat, clear light and scent of pine, and for the heady fusion of art and landscape, wine and sunshine that gives Provence and the Côte d’Azur its unique, dazzling variety.

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