Club class
We asked GolfPunk editor Tim Southwell to tell us where the new generation of swingers get their kicks.
Melting moments
If you can endure the steamy, subterranean interludes when a Speedo-clad man marinates you in cocktail ingredients, the Austrian ski and spa experience is an intriguing diversion. Gwyn Topham reports.
Through my rose-tinted beer goggles
Revisiting your old university town can bring mixed emotions. Peep Show star David Mitchell tempts painful nostalgia.
Out of the cold
The Russian way to health is a strange ritual involving plenty of vodka, steam, silly hats and birch twigs.
Best healthy breaks
Lincolnshire | Lakes | Alps | Heredfordshire
Spa offers spiritual calm in the heart of Manhattan
Deepak Chopra - guru to stars, royals and desperate housewives - opened his mystic mind-and-body centre in the heart of New York last week.
In the bleak midwinter, it’s time to get away
The Christmas countdown has begun, with just 50 days to go. If you can't face another festive fiasco, now's the time to hatch an escape plan. Beverley Fearis suggests 12 holidays where turkey won't be on the menu.
Best healthy breaks
Yoga retreat in rural Sri Lanka | Learn to ski in a weekend | Gormet cycling tour in Australia | Adrenaline Cocktail weekend
Some kind of super spa
With treatments from Japan to Finland, the UK's largest spa brings a touch of the exotic to rural Northamptonshire.
Nappy days
Amy Raphael has an uplifting experience at a mother and baby yoga retreat in the Welsh borders.
Paper pants and rose petals? Just don’t tell the lads …
He's more practised with hand grenades than bath bombs, but Andy McNab puts his macho image aside to face one of his biggest fears - getting tactile - at one of the world's best spas.
Not half Bad
Myles Quin finds a spa where he doesn't have to forego his schnapps and apfelstrudel.
She’s high maintenance. That’s my girl
Barbara Ellen and daughter Erin become more like sisters, or perhaps Hollywood starlets, during an 'Early Starter' spa day.
Instant karma
Jane Dunford on where to indulge your inner hippy.