Brean, Somerset

Jane Egginton visits 42 Acres ( www.42acres.com ), a unique regenerative Estate, Nature Reserve & Wellbeing Retreat Centre in January. As well as encountering joy, inspiration and calm, she has a whole range of wild experiences.   As a travel and wellbeing writer from Somerset, I have wanted to visit 42 Acres since it opened ten years ago. The estate and I are now in a very different place. 42 Acres has grown to 173 acres and I now continue to travel deeply but rarely leave m

How I lost two kilos, grew taller and got a takeaway of tips on how to age well.   Jane Egginton visits the unique Lucia Magnani long life clinic with diagnostics, mud treatments and five meals a day as its USP.   Mussolini enjoyed the health giving properties here a century before my stay, along with the pleasures of the decadent Grand Hotel next door which today has a Michelin starred restaurant. Guests of the clinic eat dinner at the hotel, but are giving a prescribed menu

Waterfall: credit: Scott Sporleder ONE OF THE CARIBBEAN’S HIDDEN GEMS TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT The Nature Island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean is known for its lush rainforest, waterfalls and sparkling lakes rather than big hotels, lively nightlife noisy bars and rum and reggae. But it could be the Caribbean destination of choice for eco conscious travellers in 2026 as plans for a new international airport, one of the world’s longest cable cars, beautiful luxury eco-lodges