Where to Go

Destinations

Six countries, ten cities, a hundred reasons to go. Our guides cover the essentials and the lesser-known — the places that reward the curious traveller.

Italy

La Dolce Vita

From Alpine lakes to Sicilian shore, Italy contains multitudes — each region a separate civilisation with its own cuisine, dialect, and sense of beauty.

Italy

Florence

The city where the Renaissance was invented, still wearing it. The Uffizi, the Duomo, and a food scene that has quietly become one of Italy's best.
Italy

Amalfi Coast

Eleven villages strung along thirty kilometres of vertical coastline. Spectacular, crowded in summer, and worth it — if you choose carefully where to stay.
Italy

Rome

The city that keeps happening around you. Two thousand years of empire, baroque excess, and living neighbourhood life — all within walking distance.
Italy

Sicily

The island that absorbed every civilisation that invaded it — Greek, Arab, Norman — and turned it all into extraordinary architecture and the most complex cuisine in Italy.
Italy

Venice

A city built on water that shouldn't exist and still does — improbable, melancholy, and the most extraordinary urban environment in the world.
France

Joie de Vivre

France offers the full spectrum — from the intellectual energy of Paris to the silence of Provence, the Atlantic coast to the sun-bleached Riviera.

France

Bordeaux

A post-industrial port city that reinvented itself around wine, architecture, and a serious food scene. The best base for the Gironde and Dordogne.
France

Paris

The most written-about city in the world, and still not fully understood. The real Paris is grittier, more contradictory, and more rewarding than the myth.
France

Provence

Lavender fields in July, autumn markets loaded with truffles and game — Provence delivers on every season, best explored by car from a single village base.
Spain

Viva España

Spain's intensity is its gift: extreme architecture, extraordinary food, endless coastline, and a culture that treats dinner at 10pm as a matter of principle.

Spain

Barcelona

Gaudí's buildings draw the crowds, but Barcelona rewards beyond architecture — distinct neighbourhoods, outstanding food, and a beach that actually works.
Spain

Seville

Spain's most intense city — flamenco, Moorish architecture, and a tapas culture that has no comparison in Andalusia. Go in spring or October.
Greece

The Ancient World

Three thousand years of history beneath amber light — whitewashed islands, ancient temples, and a cuisine that evolved over millennia above the Aegean.

Greece

Santorini

Caldera views, cave hotels, and the Bronze Age ruins of Akrotiri — the most dramatic island in Greece, best visited outside of peak summer.
Greece

Athens

Beneath the Acropolis, a city of four million people eating very well, opening interesting galleries, and staying up until 3am as a matter of routine.