A cycling tour hits all the highlights in the city-state. Not quite hitting F1 speed, we nonetheless peddle onto the racetrack, giddy with our starting position. You see, our group of rag-tag tourists is on Let's Go's 'Historical Singapore Bike Tour' and one of the highlights is cycling at the starting line of the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. Of...

"Relax and allow your personality to come through," urges Karina Arriaga. "Let the painting show what you see and how you feel." It's the esoteric messaging coming from the activities agent at the Grand Velas Resort Los Cabos, here at the tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula. My wife, Kerry and I, are sitting under big, blue umbrellas facing our easels a...

Channeling our inner oligarch, we stride up the red carpet and step aboard the super yacht Stardom. This four-storey, 42-metre-long floating beauty is all gleaming white fibreglass, polished teak, glittering chrome and cushy sectional couches. Captain Prithviraj Chandran welcomes us with a smile and gestures for us to ascend three levels to the Sky...

Red sand sprays off the SUV's front grill and tires as we accelerate. We pitch forward, pop back up and gain some air before hitting the sand again, slightly askew. All the while, the five of us in the SUV, squeal in delight. After all, it's our first time dune bashing – the exhilarating sport of careening through the desert in a 4x4. There are no ...

A stay at the Hotel de la Ville. It works! My wife, Kerry, and I each tossed a coin over our left shoulder into the famed Trevi Fountain in Rome when we were there in 2014. Myth has it, if you do so, you are guaranteed to return to The Eternal City to huck yet another coin into the water of the ornate Trevi. Be it magic, fate, self-fulfilling proph...

The fastest-growing sport in North America is a hit on a cruise ship Mike and Marga Kidd wipe the floor with us. Or, more precisely, they wipe the pickleball court with my wife, Kerry, and I, giving us an 11-2 drubbing. We're so unevenly matched that Kerry and I cheered each of the two points we scored as if we won the world championship. You see, ...