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Mauritius, an island paradise

International travel: Mauritius

Brilliant sunshine, azure seas and golden sands are uplifting enough. Add wonderful food, pampering galore and lashings of local rum and you must be in Mauritius

The city of Singapore

City Guide: Singapore

GAP YEAR students and baby boomers treating themselves to a midlife crisis no longer want to rough it, sleeping on the beach or stowing their fading backpacks at a hard-bedded hostel.

Nomads of Ulaanbaatar on horseback. Picture: Julia Horton

Travel: Mongolia

A JOURNEY on the Trans Mongolian Express takes the traveller through magical landscapes into a world steeped in the past

Exterior view of Arisaig House

Travel: Airsaig House, Arisaig

ONCE upon a time, Sarah Winnington-Ingram had her wedding night at Arisaig House, a romantic, grey stone mansion on the Road to the Isles – a place so swish it even has its own railway station.

City guide: Düsseldorf

IF YOU want to get to know your ale like a real German, avoid the tourist traps (and taps) in Bavaria.

Mixologist Gromit Eduardsen prepares a Copenhagen cocktail

City guide: Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN is well known for world-class design but it is the city’s sense of style that is making it an emerging global fashion centre.

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High wire adventure ropes at Aonach Mor

Travel: Lochaber, Highlands

SEA kayaking has a tendency to be a bit challenging – hence our securely fastened spray decks and slightly worrying capsize drill (I’m not sure my skills are up to an eskimo roll) – but today the water is blissfully still, barely a wave breaking on the rocks that line the coast.

The Peninsula Hotel, Tokyo

Travel: The Peninsula, Tokyo

SLEEK, sophisticated and superbly located, the Peninsula Tokyo is perfect for tourists determined to see the city in style. While its sister hotel in Hong Kong is steeped in history, the Peninsula Tokyo is ultra modern and dripping with elegance.

Beaver Creek. Colorado USA

Travel: Beaver Creek, Colorado

With vast, nearly deserted runs, excellent ski schools and an adrenaline rush for those who want it, Beaver Creek in Colorado has more family-friendly attractions than you can shake a stick at writes Richard Bath

La Rochelle's aquarium contains 1.5 million litres of water and 10,000 native sea creatures. Below, the city's Vieux Port

Travel: La Rochelle, France

IT IS late September and La Rochelle’s Vieux Port, one of the most photographed harbours on the Atlantic coast, is basking in the last of the summer sun. Its quayside restaurant and café terraces are packed.

San Francisco has a wide variety of activities and pursuits, and the best way to sightsee is by bike

City guide: San Francisco

SAN Francisco surely deserves its reputation as one of the US’s coolest, most cultured, sophisticated and laid-back destinations.

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