Wine: why don’t labels list ingredients?
Food products have to provide a list – it’s about time wine producers followed suit
Food and drink
Drink: go yo-ho-ho with a bottle of high street rum
Rum is dark and seductive as the most handsome of pirates. So unleash your inner Jack Sparrow when you next go shopping
Raffles, Batavia, Majestic: six of the best colonial hotels in south-east Asia
Whip out your linen and your Somerset Maugham – high tea and afternoon G&Ts are undergoing a revival at south-east Asia’s refurbished colonial hotels, cafes and bars
Top 10 B&Bs in France to break your motorway journey
Break up the long drive to your French holiday destination with a stop at one of these chic but affordable guesthouses – chosen by Alastair Sawday
Top 10 museum cafes and restaurants in Paris
Many of Paris’s museum cafes and restaurants now offer a lot more than coffee and cake. You can now expect great food and magnificent art – and some take their cuisine so seriously they merit a visit in their own right
Kazakhstan to offer caviar baths as luxury tourist attraction
An ambitious multimillion-pound plan hopes to attract hordes of visitors to the east coast of the Caspian sea, but the hunt is on for investors to fund the project. EurasiaNet.org report