Author Ernest Hemingway was totally smitten with East Africa – a region where he found romantic adventure in the guise of hunting, campfires, and the like. Five decades after this Nobel Prize winning author’s suicide, a trip whose itinerary includes both Kenya and Uganda is well worth undertaking.

Sipping champagne on Corviglia mountain. Some 150 ago, a hotelier named Johannes Badrutt made a bet with his English guests that resulted in St. Moritz becoming the world’s most renowned winter sport venue – although it’s also become Switzerland’s bonfire of the vanities. But the mountains and pistes are still as gorgeous as ever.

Compare the needs of Europe’s super-rich and you will notice significant differences. “In Poland, for instance, there is a much more extrovert conception of luxury than in Germany. Germans or Swiss so-called high net worth individuals (HNWI) often wish to give something back to society with their wealth”, – this is one of the main conclusions from the comparison. 

Rendezvous with manta rays - Majestic manta rays and rare seahorses: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat offers scuba divers a panoply of marine species in a relatively small area. Raja Ampat’s reefs are an El Dorado for underwater photographers – as long as you’ve got the right lens.

Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia, is a city of contrasts. In Barcelona, the utopia of a cultural melting point has long since become part and parcel of everyday life. The city oscillates between provincialism and cosmopolitanism.

When you discover Barcelona on foot, you encounter a city with many different aspects: dishevelled versus modest; an apparently impenetrable warren of rooftops versus a rigorously geometric grid of streets.

Caribbean Island, St. Lucia – Everyone who escapes from the luxury resort to explore St. Lucia by taxi will experience the Antillean island's authentic side: the home of artists and Nobel Laureates presents a vibrant world filled with music. But the island would still be the wrong choice for the starring role of "Pearl of the Caribbean".