A 45-minute Sunday walk from the Sun in Splendour to Westbourne Park Road, with the history behind Notting Hill's painted stucco terraces.

A house built in 1902–1908 to feel like a Greek home on Delos: marble, mosaics, a library like a monk's cell, and the perfect opposite of the Villa Ephrussi up the hill.

A June afternoon in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: the honey-stone town outside Blenheim's gate, its two pub streets, a queen held prisoner, a glove trade that paid for the stone, and how to see the park for free.

A house built between two bays by a Rothschild who wanted to live on a ship, with nine gardens, a loggia buried in bougainvillea and the best terrace view on the Riviera.

Inside Rockaway Park, the DIY arts quarry near Temple Cloud, Somerset — studios, sculpture, a vegan café and a chapel dedicated to alternative thought.

Three Cotswolds villages, one spring - Castle Combe's honey-stone cottages, Winchcombe's proper bakery, and Minchinhampton's roses and grazing cows.

Four days chasing changeable Atlantic weather in Madeira, from a rainbow over Funchal's rooftops to café culture and practical notes for your own trip.

A honey-stone market town in the Cotswolds where wool merchants once built fortunes, antiques dealers now build reputations, and the King lives just down the road.

A rainy Christmas Eve in Shakespeare's home town, where half-timbered streets glow under fairy lights and the River Avon runs dark and quiet past the theatre he never saw.

Up on its windy hilltop, the highest town in the Cotswolds turns gold and crimson every October — I went looking for its wool-trade history, its 1646 battle, and the church door that may or may not have inspired Tolkien.

Ten minutes inland from the Cagnes-sur-Mer coast, the old village of Villeneuve-Loubet hides a 13th-century castle, Escoffier's birth house, and some of the quietest medieval streets on the French Riviera.

A wander through Winchcombe's working high street, blossom-framed old police station, Easter door wreaths, a 1967 bakery, and the town's whimsically named cottages — a proper, unpolished Cotswolds day trip.

A quiet Cotswold market town near Stroud with a bakehouse café on Market Square, roses spilling over an old school house, a postbox with a painted cow, and a famous common where cattle graze freely among the golfers.

Thirteen photo spots in Bath, from Topping's bookshop and the Roman Baths to the Royal Crescent and Sham Castle, with a note on when the light is right at each and what it costs in 2026.

Corralejo, at the northern tip of Fuerteventura, in February: the dunes of the natural park, Villa Tabaiba, where to eat, the surf on the Bristol seafront, Playa del Pozo, the El Campanario market and the ferry to Lanzarote.

Two days in Hastings, from the Old Town's net shops and cliff railways to the Firehills, the pier and James Burton's Regency St Leonards.

My three-day Naples route, from the Veiled Christ and Castel Sant'Elmo to the pizzerias and metro stations worth crossing town for.