b .C. is a dichotomy of breathtaking beauty - totem poles and stone carvings, marinas rippling with yachts and toot-tooting tugboats, lanky-legged dog parks and wind-whistling lakes – this magnificent province is home to a youthful and gorgeous ladder-climbing clientele of wine-and-diners and fervorous outdoor zealots, each with a passion for piping hot dragon bowls and a second-hand fashion edge

w ithin the soothing, southeastern waters of the luscious Caribbean, you’ll find a necklace of islands affectionately deemed ‘The Spice Isle’ – a plush pendant that is Grenada Island, alongside the adjacent diamonds of Carriacou and Petit Martinique. A glisten of white sand, a glint of emerald and garnet forest, and the relaxed saunter of urban life, help to make this reclusive destination

p arlez-vous sweet nothings? No matter what Hollywood says, the language of love is best polished amongst genial Québecois with egalitarian penchants for cultural layer cakes and hops heartened musings. Much like the dollhouses of our pigtail days provided snug escapism, Québec City furnishes a Honey I Shrunk the Western Europe kind of mood for the curiouser and curiouser. And in the vein of Poll

t he Zanzibar Archipelago, cradled by the motherly warmth of the Indian Ocean, is made up of Unguja, or Zanzibar Island, and Pemba, as well as a host of other tiny, twinkling gemstone islets. Each dew-drop constituent helps to form the United Republic of Tanzania of eastern Africa. Everything about this quintessential, paradise pit-stop suggests a by-gone age – spice plantations, raffia and clove

h oneymoon trends are retreating from the exotic back into the nostalgic, so if your beach-bumming folks used to bundle up the brood for a trip to the Cape, it’s time to strap hubby in the passenger seat and drive on over to the land of clambakes, sand castles and hand-in-hand walking circuits. New England dictates a tryst of heady, Ivy League flavors, therefore smooches are best stolen in the po