If you’re sick of wading through confusing reviews to find the best places to visit, you’ll be relieved to learn that a new expert travel review site, TheTravelEditor.com, has been launched to inject some much-needed 21st century thinking into the online travel review market.
Created by telecoms and internet veterans Kevin Evans and Nicholas Allen, TheTravelEditor.com [...]

The idea itself was simple. You could have written it down on the back of a fag packet but being a non-smoker I wrote it down in a nicely bound notebook instead.1Go to America.2Buy a car.3 Drive from one coast to the other.4 While doing so, try not to spend money in any chain businesses.5Go [...]

So a frind of mine, who fluked a couple of days at the Hotel Splendido, a really rather sumptuous affair in Portofino on the Italian Riviera, was convinced that herein lay the secret of holidaying for free. His theory was simple: pay for a single blow-out holiday in a selection of Europe’s top hotels, then [...]

‘Let me guess. You’re going to the middle of the world,” says the Quito taxi driver, turning to the English backpackers in the backseat, while simultaneously negotiating the city’s mid-morning traffic.He’s right first time. The equator is one of the Ecuadorian capital’s biggest attractions - even though GPS devices have recently revealed the much-photographed line [...]

Even before I touched a drop, I loved the names: Glenfarclas, Benromach, Aberlour, Dallas Dhu and Craigellachie. Aficionados of single malt whisky will immediately recognise these distilleries from Speyside, sandwiched between Inverness to the west and Aberdeen to the east.
Distinctive pagoda-like steeples of the Speyside distilleries. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Almost half of all Scotland’s whisky distilleries [...]