Destination Guides

Salcombe is a classic English beach destination full of new discoveries

The cold wind whips around my ears and violently shakes the branches overhead. Right now, I’m unsure whether the bead plummeting down my cheek is sweat or rain.

As my feet weigh down on the pedals and my legs start to burn, I activate ‘turbo mode’ and battery power aids my climb to the top of the hill. I’m on an e-bike and that bead slipping down my cheek is most certainly rain – even on the steepest of South Devon hills, I’ve barely broken a sweat.

The CF Guide To Slow Travel In Tuscany

There’s a pleasure to be found in carefree idleness. In Italy, they call it dolce far niente, literally meaning sweet nothing. It’s about indulging in a slower pace and revelling in the pleasantries of doing nothing much at all.

The idea might sound simple, but it can be exceptionally hard to do nothing and not feel a nagging sense of guilt about your lack of productivity. But in the hilltop towns of rural Tuscany, dolce far niente flows as abundantly as the region’s Chianti wine.

Washington DC - The US capital skips to a modern beat

Washington, DC feels familiar. When you first set eyes on the US Capitol building (home of Congress), the Statue of Freedom standing triumphantly on top, you feel acquainted.

This close acquaintance is partly down to the big screen; from the Capitol building being flattened in Designated Survivor to the Lincoln Memorial being blown to smithereens in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Hollywood can’t get enough of America’s capital.