I’d heard all sorts of things about the Seychelles islands including the tag “5 star location but 3 star hotels and service”, so I was delighted to be able to go and investigate for myself with my husband Peter earlier this year. Mahe Due to the way the international flights ... Read more

We’ve done a bit of digging through the travel press to see if their idea of the best African beach villas matched our own. Ndomo House, Kaya Mawa, Lake Malawi We’d certainly agree with Will Hide who, in his Guardian article ‘Top 100 holiday beach houses: Africa and the Middle ... Read more

Francis, one of our most travelled safari experts, is beguiled by the beaches of the Seychelles. A thousand miles east of Africa’s mainland lies a cluster of tiny, remote islands far out in the Indian Ocean. This archipelago seems to have been scattered from a giant’s hand, strung out over ... Read more