​ Jacada Travel has launched a new nine-day 'Introduction to Colombia' tour. This starts with two days in Bogota, before continuing to Villa de Leyva to the north of the capital via Zipaquira and driving through the Altiplano of Cundinamarca, the home of potato farming and milk cattle. The holiday will also include a stop-over in the colonial villa...

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that offers gothic fiction and ghost story in equal measure. A new governess (known only as that) is appointed care for Miles and Flora who live alone at Bly, a remote country estate tended by Mrs Grose, the housekeeper. Their father has insisted the new governess not bother him with an...

Thinking ahead to your next family holiday? Planning an escape from the bleak European winter? Wondering if it is really possible to travel long haul with small kids? Thailand can tick all these boxes. ​Thailand is always great for a family holiday – it's got an unbeatable combination of sun, beaches, good food, massages. It is also relatively easy...

The paradise of providence. That's how I felt about Puglia in Spring writes Adam Jacot de Boinod. So fertile for its dry, hot climate. So uplifting with its masseria, the whitewashed farmhouses with their singular but solid shapes and spacious courtyards. I had left the cold British spring to experience instantly its warm summer equivalent. It was ...

Spread out across eight hectares of lush gardens and rice paddy fields on the outskirts of Siem Reap, Phum Baitang is a collection of 45 wood and stilted villas inspired by traditional local architecture. Phum Baitang's dedication to sustainable practices is evident in the methods employed throughout the hotel. An autonomous water treatment facilit...

Desolation Canyon has been carved over millennia by the 730-mile Green River that is spawned by glacial melts on the Continental Divide in the wilds of northern Wyoming. With no roads, no towns or cell phone or data service this is one of the most remote places in the continental United States. While Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch found the rugge...