Travel

Lake Como is a wonderfully ostentatious playground for the obscenely rich and glamorous. But beyond the pizazz there is rustic, mysterious charm; even for those without the personal GDP of a small Pacific island. It’s easy to imagine Lake Como as a Knighstbridge-on-the-lake. A soulless den of laundered money pumped into multi-million pound villas, ghostly-empty for most of the year. An area seemingly only suitable for day-trippers and the hyper-rich. But, like Knightsbridge, there’s a reason people want to hide...

Yes, they drive on the left and have three pin plugs, but Cyprus really isn’t much like Britain at all. For a start the temperatures and beaches on the Mediterranean’s third largest island are more reliably fabulous than anything we have at home. To explore for myself I headed for Pissoui Bay, an 18mile drive from Paphos International Airport. Our base was the Columbia Beach Resort, a seven and a half hectare slice of luxury complete with a private beach,...

Pristine posters which were never used include warning passengers about fog on the line and adverts encouraging men to sign up to the military

Little Pipe Cay, in the central Bahamas, is described as “a jewel” within the archipelago of the Exumas island chain.

The aircraft, an MQ-9B SkyGuardian, will travel 4,000 miles from the USA to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire

A study of more than 5,000 flight attendants found cases were higher for every form of the disease examined

Just 30 miles wide, Menorca might be Mallorca’s little brother, but it shouldn’t be ignored until there’s no one else to play Xbox with. It’s a small island of concentrated fun, with a wealth of beaches, so much nature that Unesco got involved, and oodles of rustic charm. Most locals don’t speak English. It’s fantastic. Climb up one of its many peaks for a soul-nourishing vista of mottled greens and browns of fields, farms and fincas. Or, make a beeline...

Whether you are looking for beach-side dining, spectacular views or traditional Greek tavernas, Mykonos has it all when it comes to fine dining spots. For an island that celebrates diversity, it is not surprising that there is a plethora of restaurants on offer that are either buried within the cosy whitewashed alleys in town or sprawled across the many miles of cost line. Fish is in abundance, mezze is widely served and local Greek wine punches with the quality of many...

For centuries, indigenous cultures have honored their shamanic healers as the bridge to spiritual healing,providing healing and blessings that help cure all manner of ills, both physical and spiritual. Throughout the world’s cultural history, the shaman has been consulted for both practical and pragmatic solutions to the everyday problems we face in life. Since the early 1900s, quantum theory has described the nature of the universe at the tiniest measures of energy levels while shamans have been manipulating that energy...