Maldives is that perfect canvas where the heavens have generously used large paint brushes to splash vast areas of ocean and beach, with solid colours of cerulean blues and whites. And it is in this perfect miraculous artwork, we wholly immersed ourselves during our brief Holi vacation break.

The Indian festival of Holi signifies the end of winter and the start of spring. It is a day which celebrates the beginning of a good harvest season across India. Soneva invites you to visit with your friends and family to enjoy Holi in the Maldives, on a beautiful sandbank, surrounded by the cerulean waters around Soneva Fushi. Come over with those you love and play holi with safe, vegetable colours amidst peels of laughter and ample happiness.

Cho Hee-sook, a respected authority on traditional Korean cuisine and chef-owner of Hansikgonggan in Seoul, has been named Asia’s Best Female Chef for 2020. Chef Cho will be presented with her award at the ceremony for Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2020, sponsored by S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna, on Tuesday 24th March in Saga Prefecture, Japan.

What happens when a Chef who very well could be a famous movie star, uses his experiences from working at some of the world’s finest restaurants - Eleven Madison Park , The Modern and Jean Georges - re-interprets the ‘wow’ flavours of globally loved Thai cuisine, by using 21st century techniques to deconstruct dishes, using the freshest and finest of seasonal ingredients to present his diners with culinary art on a plate?

On a recent business trip to Seoul, South Korea, I chose to stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. Not only had I heard from friends, that the relatively new glass-and-steel hotel, designed by Su Sin Tao of Singapore, offered guests a perfect blend of luxury and style, but also that the location of the hotel on Seoul’s North Bank, was hard to beat.

On the site of the first Welsh Parliament, stands an Edwardian country house hotel. Llangoed Hall was the last of our stops during a recent summer trip to Wales. Of all the remarkable properties we experienced while in the United Kingdom, Llangoed Hall in Llyswen, Powys, was the best in terms of showcasing an ideal mix of a perfect countryside location, a fine dining restaurant on-site, vast manicured grounds, tasteful interiors and exceptional service.

Last Thursday we dined at Baan, a restaurant located on Bangkok’s Wireless road. When Laveena and I walked in with our mothers, we found the interiors to be rather small, yet modern and unpretentious with concrete floors and marble table tops. I was honestly expecting something a tad more traditional and Thai as I had read t

Last Saturday, Laveena and I, along with my parents Razia and Munna, boarded a magic-carpet and glided into the enchanting world of Maffy’s, a quaint little Pan-Arabian restaurant located just steps away from the magnificent Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai.

In the midst of a dense jungle, along the foothills of the Western Ghats, there lies a military-styled luxury camp, where retired Indian army Generals and Colonels, and their team of brave and fearless men in uniform, share their years of training in counter terrorism, armed combat and survival skills, with guests who have checked into DATA ( Della Adventure Training Academy).

In February this year Laveena and I checked in at a luxury tented camp located in pristine wilderness, in India’s magnificent Thar desert in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Representing the very best in Indian hospitality, The Serai by Sujan luxury, impressed us both from the moment we arrived, effortlessly standing out as one of India’s finest luxury hotel resorts and helping re-affirm the word ‘incredible’,  in Incredible India.