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If a dip within the natural sizzling springs doesn’t sate your appetite for the outside, a ponderous trek looking for rare slaty-backed flycatchers and rock thrushes surely will. Samos’s beaches are its real siren song, although – from the small but heavenly slice of shingle on the hamlet of Posidonio, to the spectacularly dramatic bluffs and waterfalls at Potami, that are enrobed with a liquid amber glow at sundown. Further inland you’ll find the twin peaks of Ampelos and Kerkis towering above ambrosial pine forest, and on their slopes blissfully unshowy mountain towns – such as Chora, Pagondas and Mitilinii – which have remained deliciously unchanged over time.

Tourists will be in a position to benefit from the wonderful sights of distinctive marine animals and crops, interacting with each other in excellent harmony. No matter how many locations are on your bucket list, this rating will get you dreaming of …

But a volley of new luxurious resort openings will give this evergreen destination much more of a gleam come 2022. In April, the Red Carnation Hotel Collection will open its first Scottish outpost on the city’s most storied thoroughfare. Looking out across the talismanic Edinburgh Castle, 100 Princes Street is a collaboration between a passionate design team and native artisans, together with tartan maestro Araminta Campbell (whose bespoke prints adorn the partitions at outré art lodge the Fife Arms).

Although international guests won’t have bums in seats at the Winter Olympics when it’s hosted in Beijing in February, there’s little doubt that the largest winter-sports event on the planet will lodge wanderlust-shaped seeds in the minds of adventure travellers. An clever renovation of a grand 18th-century home once residence to Ireland’s archbishops, Cashel Palace will offer 42 sensible rooms and suites, a promising spa and a restaurant focusing on hyper-local, …