As we set off down the coast of Turkey on a 500km drive from the Aegean to the Mediterranean, via the Datca and Bozburun Peninsulas where the two seas meet, my guide Burak Doganay puts me in the picture. Turkey has eight national borders influenced by several different religions and cultures,’he says. the south and [...]

Aside from being a charming holiday spectacle on balmy summer nights, the timeless tradition of the passeggiata is also a highly civilised social ritual, says James Hamilton-Paterson OF ALL THE Social CUSTOMS that go hand in hand with a warm climate, the evening promenade is surely the most immemorial. It has the unmistakable feel of [...]

TENNESSEE Would you rather live on an Oxbridge-like university campus or in a rustic cabin in the woods? Kevin Wilson doesn t have to choose THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH sits on the Cumberland Plateau in Sewanee, Tennessee. The professors and many of the students wear long academic gowns and attend classes in Gothic sandstone [...]

L ABBAYE DE LA BUSSIERE Michelin This 12th-century Cistercian abbey is in a quiet comer of Burgundy, surrounded by rolling hills, lakes and parkland. In 2005 the Cummings family, then owners of Amberley Castle in Sussex, bought it from the church and undertook its conversion from spiritual retreat to five-star hotel. The result is magnificent, [...]

ZAMBIA AN1) MALAWI ARE A WILD NEW TWIST ()N TI IE CLASSIC BUSII-TO-BEACI1 DOUBLE-HIT. PETER BROWNE REVISITS rriIE SOUTHERN AFRICA OF HIS CHILDHOOD AND FINDS I IE IS STILL IN FRONTIER TERRITORY IN A VAST AND EMPTY AFRICA. PI IOTOGRAPI IS BY MICHEL FIGUET IN BED ON MY FIRST NIGHT in Zambia, blanketed by warm, [...]