After a week under the trees in the Vosges, we came down into the vineyards and found ourselves in a string of villages so pretty they look like someone has coloured them in. Alsace sits in that sliver of France pressed up against Germany, and it feels like both at once. The villages are half-timbered and flower-boxed, the food is hearty, and the Route des Vins d'Alsace threads them together through rolling vineyards. Most of the best Alsace villages are within a 20 minute d

Living in Dubai, whenever we travel we look for Forest Schools where Siena can spend a day or two. We saw this one popping up on our socials, and realised we could stay on-site so had to add it in to the start of our trip. It was such a cool stay, and I really look forward to going back. It's a villa built within a forest school on Bolgoda Lake, Sri Lanka. We booked and paid for these two nights ourselves, at the property's standard exclusive-use villa rate. Nobody at Forest

SEAPONT PROMENADE Cape Town has a feeling about it that can't be described! The city oozes life, and it's beauty makes you want to spend every minute out soaking it all in. Every morning in Seapoint, we walked out onto onto the promenade with the sunrise, picking up a coffee and a croissant on the way. It's busy, even at that hour: runners, swimmers, dog walkers, old men on bicycles, prams, a whole city already out and moving. It is an outdoor lifestyle city, and the sooner y