Driving the Amalfi Coast: One of the World's Great Road Trips

Perched above the cerulean waters of Positano, Le Sirenuse delivers a masterclass in Italian luxury. A stay here is not merely accommodation — it is the Amalfi Coast distilled into its purest form.

A tiny bakery in Monterosso, run by Sicilian twins, that produces pastries so good they have become one of the defining food experiences of the Cinque Terre. The queue starts before it opens. Get there anyway.

The Portrait Firenze occupies a Luisa Via Roma family palazzo directly on the Arno, opposite the Ponte Vecchio. It is the most intimate luxury hotel in Florence — 37 suites, no queues, no crowds, and a level of personal service that is becoming genuinely rare.

The Cape Peninsula drive is one of the world's great coastal roads. We go from Cape Town to Cape Point via Chapman's Peak, Boulders Penguin Colony, and the Cape of Good Hope.

The Uffizi contains more Renaissance masterpieces than anywhere on earth, and most visitors see less than 10% of them. We plot the essential 90-minute route and explain what you are actually looking at.