Pick your way across the Island of the Knights via rooftop frappés, pillowy pitta and bowls of dakos salad piled high with crumbly feta – not to mention a 15th-century hospital, a confluence of springs in lush forestry and a turquoise bay tucked behind an ancient acropolis. Suffice to say, the Medieval jewel of the…

Anyone with a guidebook and a map can work their way around the major attractions of a buzzing metropolis, but a day spent drifting from the Yu Garden to the Peace Hotel and back again isn’t likely to get you under the skin of Shanghai’s decadent chaos. It’s true, getting intimate with a silver-surfaced giant…

You’ll never understand a place like India unless you get to grips with its food. Like its people, its cuisine is complicated and surprising – a diverse assortment of tastes and textures connected by deep, rich spices and strong customs – but if you’re looking for good place to start, getting to know the below…

No trip to this heaving cosmopolis is complete without visiting its most famous attractions – from the Forbidden City to the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace to the Great Wall – but don’t stop there. The Bird’s Nest Stadium and Ming Dynasty Tombs may be spectacular, but Beijing is a city of many faces…

Whether you know it as Pearl of the Orient, Asia’s Hollywood or the Riviera of the East, Hong Kong is without a doubt the ultimate hybrid, an intoxicating limbo where East meets West and where even a short visit can be a truly scintillating experience. It is, of course, also a jungle – an endless…

Breakfast Start your day in the Old Town, Kraków’s quaint historic centre. You’ll want to fuel up for a day of vigorous strolling, so make Sheep & Dragon Café your first stop. A typical Polish breakfast involves chleb z masłem (bread and butter), ser (cheese), szynka (ham) and jajka (eggs), so you could certainly argue…

A favourite of George Clooney, Positano’s Il San Pietro is renowned for its luxury, discretion, five-star warmth and – as of a mega $3.2million renovation – now, too, its one-of-a-kind, two-storey eco-kitchen. Producing every ingredient used by the hotel’s Michelin-star restaurant Zass, this incredible 400sqm feat of engineering uses a quarter of the electricity its peers…

Ever on the hunt for Britain’s best afternoon tea, Glug & Chew‘s latest discovery was found nestled in the pretty streets of leafy Marylebone at The Arch London. The Royal Afternoon Tea, as it’s called, can be taken in the boutique hotel’s chic Martini Library, stylish Hunter 486 restaurant or luxurious Salon de Champagne lounge,…