From street food and casual dumplings to gourmet, the capital of Taiwan has it all. Pilgrimage-worthy dumplings, hot-as-hell devil chicken, stinky tofu, elegant Peking duck, lobster in yellow sauce, oyster omelette, fish eggs fried rice, stir-fried cuttlefish, barbecued pork and cool mango ice. Even with just 72-hours in Taipei, my wife Kerry and I...

Ride a Mini Cooper in the Windy City for the best skyline Without hesitation, Rey Rosales declares the view of Chicago is best from Adler Planetarium. So, we all pile into the Mini Cooper to drive southeast through Chicago's famous skyscraper-choked downtown. We pull up at the planetarium psyched to look back across shimmering Lake Michigan's Monro...

Private water taxi is the glamourous way to arrive at Venice hotel that was formerly a doge's palace. Channelling our inner George and Amal Clooney, my wife and I glide over Venice's lagoon in a sleek private water taxi. As we pass the mouth of the Grand Canal, the domes of the resplendent Basilica in the pigeon-filled, cafe-lined San Marco Piazza ...

Following Liza the dog to uncover the tastiest, and most expensive, mushrooms in the world. "Isci, isci," ring out the shouts in the hills above Koper, Slovenia. Translated the command is, "search, search." The verbal encouragement comes from Sara Kocjancic and is directed at two-year-old yellow Labrador retriever Liza, a truffle-hunting dog extrao...

​ Viking has perfected the ocean cruise with a spectacular infinity pool and more. Tucked aft on deck seven is the most fabulously well-located infinitypool. The clear pool water, delightfully and deceitfully, melds seamlessly with the azure of the Mediterranean Sea and the blue of the sky on the horizon. As such, it immediately and naturally becom...

Father and son's ineptitude leads to a magical beach and sandbar discovery in the Bahamas. In the clearest of Bahamian waters, my son slows the boat and trims up the motor. The bow meets the white sand with the slightest resistance and we come to a gentle stop. Our eyes scan the perfect crescent of beach, the adjacent glistening sandbar and we cong...