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Maurice Crackenthorpe Roaming travel editor-at-large - Presents the "Tao of Travel"

Comprising a few favourites and lesser celebrated international picks, these snippets may inspire your own further investigation – particularly if Europe and South-East Asia are on your travel cards, stretching as far as Africa for the adventurous. 

When the newly-repurposed Peninsula and Oriental mail delivery ship set out from Southampton on the world’s first dedicated leisure cruise in 1844, its passengers could not have imagined that such cruises would one day be taken in ships twenty stories high...

After a long and winding history, the latest iteration of the ocean cruise delivers a full-bodied adventure accompanied by intellectual and gastronomic pleasures.

At the dawn of the 20th century, maritime leisure was transformed with the commissioning of the world’s inaugural purpose-built cruise ship, setting the stage for an era of opulent voyages for affluent travellers. 

For our frequent travellers, restaurant buffs and real gastronomes, here are two restaurants, in favoured and wonderful destinations: Osaka and Lisbon.

Ask anyone who has made it out the other side of a midlife crisis in one piece, and they’ll likely tell you that roaming is the remedy that holds up where shiny cars and new sex fall down.