Cocktail Hour Series Episode 9 – LIVE from Langkawi

Punakha Dzong may be the most beautiful building in the Himalayas — a masterclass in how architecture can hold a whole civilisation together.

Bali’s cultural heart in peak dry season — a field report on how to find the real Ubud beyond the yoga-retreat clichés.

The West Highland Line, the Belmond Royal Scotsman and a Gleneagles estate stay: why the Scottish Highlands are Britain’s finest luxury summer escape.

A three-generation family safari in Botswana’s Okavango Delta in July — peak season, a luxury Wilderness camp, and the wild elephant encounter that silenced a sceptic.

July in the Red Centre: warm days, six-degree nights, no phone signal, and starlight bright enough to throw a shadow on the ground.

We’d perfected the sensible holiday. Then the Montreux Jazz Festival on Lake Geneva reminded us what we’d quietly stopped saying yes to.