As a Travel Writer in Lockdown I've started to look ever more closely at the wonders on my doorstep. Here's what I found walking south along the coast from Ayr.​. Brought up in the South Side of Glasgow, Ayr is a town of my earliest memories of sunshine and 'the seaside'. Even nowadays, almost 50 years on, the population of the city of Glasgow had ...

Severin*s - The Alpine Retreat is a five-star superior hotel on a mountain slope in the Stubenbach quarter of Lech am Arlberg. Lech am Arlberg is a mountain village and an exclusive ski resort in the Bludez district in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, on the banks of the river Lech. Severin*s enjoys a panoramic view over the alpine lan...

The Frutt Mountain Resort in central Switzerland 40 km from Lucerne, attracts ski and nature enthusiasts in the winter season. The 'Ski in and ski out' resort has a gondola that takes guests up to 2,000 metres directly to the Melchsee Lake in the Melchsee-Frutt ski area, which offers 36 km of slopes with all levels of difficulty. For those who pref...

​Whether it's the picturesque seaside town of Lochinver, the distinctive shape of the mountain towering above the surrounding wilderness or the sheer distance from anything resembling the daily grind, there's something about Suilven that calls to us. I answered her call, fell in love and she's here in my heart to stay. I first became aware of Suilv...

The northern Italian region of Trentino, which stretches from the tip of Lake Garda to the Dolomites, was named Wine Region of the Year 2020 by Wine Enthusiast magazine. In receiving the award, Trentino was described as 'one of the most dynamic, multifaceted, quality terroir-driven wine producing areas in the world today'. Trentino has 164 wineries...

Mont Ventoux is a mountain in the Provence region of Southern France. The so-called Bald Mountain is known through its inclusion in the Tour de France. Venteux means windy in French and it can get just that at the summit, where the wind blows at over 90 km/h (56 mph) for 240 days a year. The road over the mountain is often closed due to high winds,...