TRAVEL & SPA
This time last year I was standing in cold, bright sunlight at the top of a mountain in the Nepalese Himalayas.
To the Yorkshire Dales… for a country house experience founded on fitness, spa relaxation and fine cuisine
The Hampshire haven has conjured a series of summer experiences honouring traditional crafts, from wood carving to botanical painting
The spectacularly restored Palladian mansion in the Scottish Borders provides a fitting canvas to celebrate craft masterpieces
Silver Linings offers personalised programmes and sessions with revered yogi Stewart Gilchrist
KAMALAYA KOH SAMUI, THAILAND Is it possible to achieve proper, important life changes in just five days? Kamalaya founder Rajesh Ramani-ex-banker, former monk and now a guide to human nature - thinks so.
THAI PAD Beatrice Aidin had spent years resisting the pull of pilates, but a life-changing visit to Koh Samui saw her become a reformed' character...get it? (Reformer pilates? No? Oh, forget it).
If I was going to detox, I was going to make myself toxic first. So, during the fortnight before my trip to Thailand, I drank like a fish, watched my white-wine belly