Whether travelling on honeymoon or taking your family, as a conservation expert or safari virgin, there’s an African holiday that can be tailored to your needs. Dawit Mesfen says read on..

In 1970’s England, newlywed Ross Dunn was offered a job in Zimbabwe. As the proud owner of a newish Hillman naturally, to get there, he drove – with his wife. Sara Dunn tells their tale.

Brazil’s stunning coastline provides year-round sun and is a handy getaway in the northern hemisphere’s winter. But these fragile environments do need protection. Tracey Chandler dives deep off the coast of Pernambuco and finds herself caught up in marine conservation.

If you’re flying to Australia it makes perfect sense to stop off in Thailand, to shop, sunbathe, eat and maybe dive. Dawit Mesfen runs through your options.

Canadian Lindsay Salt escaped a bitter winter to fly south to Arizona, and finds blue skies and daylight add to the region’s spectacular natural beauty.

In this extract from ‘Bearback’, his account of two years spent motorbiking round the world, Dr Pat Garrod and his wife Ness travel from Cambodia to Thailand – slowly through Laos.

How do you tour Europe in less than a month – and take ten days off for a rest in the middle? Basically you do a city a night, says David Tyndall, as he races around a grueling series of highlights.

If you land in England, go west. Tez Plavenieks hooks up his caravan and surf boards and drives into Wales.

The Maldives are magic, says Anthony Starks, and there’s much more to do than just lie on the beach.

Minnesota State’s emblem is the Split Rock Lighthouse, but Brandon Eijah Scott finds it hard to spot on a gloomy dank day. Those are, of course, precisely the conditions that make it so useful.

In this latest extract from his e-book, Flashpacking through Africa, Jason Smart is easily seduced by the charms of Uganda’s ramshackle capital.

An unscheduled landing in the Philippines upsets John M Edwards’ girlfriend. Being pregnant didn’t help – but neither did getting dumped.

Few parts of the UK can match Cornwall for sheer natural beauty. Mark Shaw picks out ten outstanding highlights.

Dan Beckmann, like many dads, has to fight to retain a stable relationship with his growing daughter. Travelling together, he finds, has really helped.

American Mike Weisbuch learned Dutch in college because he thought it might make him look cool. It didn’t. He also has quite a lot of trouble using the language in Southeast Asia, where most Dutch people seem perfectly fluent in English.