Ex-River Cafe head sommelier Emily O'Hare has launched the world's first wine and yoga retreat, set in a majestic Tuscan castle belonging to the family of famed British author Graham Greene. Guests are given a five-day experience that includes wine workshops and tastings, poolside yoga with Vinyasa teacher Nadia Steward, meals prepared by River Cafe chef Avinash Kumar, morning hikes, a spa trip to the ancient outdoor thermal baths at Bagnol-Vignoni, and pasta and risotto masterclasses with Michelin-starred chef Roberto Rossi.

There is something quite magical about a train ride which will whisk you from metropolitan buzz to the scenic splendour of the Scottish Highlands while tucked up in bed, writes MailOnline Travel's Richard Marsden. He heads to Scotland to join a munro bagging group in the quest to climb all the country's mountains over 3,000ft.

MailOnline Travel's Beci Wood takes her six-month-old baby Ruby on her first holiday abroad. The family find that all-inclusive, Ikos Olivia hotel in Halkidiki combines the space of a self-catering villa with a hotel experience. Boasting five restaurants, plenty of baby equipment and a stylish spa, the luxury resort meets and exceeds their parental needs.

A handful of competition winners have won the chance to spend the night in the Eiffel Tower and watch Euro 2016. MailOnline Travel checks out what they'll experience when they check in. It comes complete with a giant television screen - showing all 51 games live - fully equipped kitchen, two bedrooms and an open plan living room, its walls adorned with images of the beautiful game. There's also table football, enough sofa space to host your entire Sunday league team and a DJ booth prepped to take a night at Euro 2016 well into extra time.

From the isolation of a lone cabin in New Mexico's canyons to the windswept romance of a cottage on a Scottish isle (inset right), TripAdvisor has selected some of the world's best rentals for a digital detox, which can set you back as little as £30 a night. Whether you'd rather castaway on a Mexican beach (inset left) or immerse yourself in Vermont's dazzling forests (main) at these remote properties endless serenity is promised with only local wildlife to occasionally interrupt the silence.

The waterless pedicure, favoured by A-listers such as Naomi Campbell (inset, left) and Gwyneth Paltrow (inset, right), was developed by famed French podiatrist Bastien Gonzalez for his studios in spas around the world, including the five-star St Regis Singapore. Clients' feet and toenails are left glowing after the 60-minute treatment (bottom right), which uses creams made from mother-of-pearl and special tools that are exclusive to Gonzalez's studios. In addition to world-class spa treatments, guests at the St Regis Singapore can enjoy 24-hour butler service, elegant penthouse rooms (top left) with marble baths (top right), contemporary French cuisine at its signature restaurant and a tropical spa pool (bottom right).

At 2,600ft, this epic zip line claims to be the longest in the world over water - and it's fast, too, with users descending at speeds of up to 50mph. The Dragon's Breath Flight Line in Haiti has a launch platform 500ft up, above a stunning coastal landscape, and incredible point-of-view footage has emerged of someone making the thrilling descent. At the beginning of the clip a batch of daredevils are seen hurtling down over the golden beaches of Labadee below. Then it's the turn of the filmmaker and his group, who are about to find out that the reward for being brave is really quite special.

In an almost spooky fashion, a child has been filmed walking right up to an approaching elephant on a road and seemingly controlling it by showing it the palm of her hand. The dramatic scene unfolded in Sri Lanka, with the girl showing absolutely no fear as she walks towards the creature gazing down upon her. Remarkably, the elephant, despite its massive size, appears to be scared of her and quickly backs away as the girl continues to walk forwards.

Called Black Swan, the concept yacht is the brainchild of Istanbul's Timur Bozca, who was inspired by the shape of an arrow and aimed to redefine experience, style and luxury with his bold design. The vessel features a stunning pool and sun deck (inset), hidden balconies at the pointed tip and a profile that is sure to turn heads in places such as the French Riviera or Caribbean.

US couple David Ransom and his wife quit their jobs to travel. By documenting just one second a day, they created an exhilarating video, condensing their six-month trip across Asia, into just three minutes. The film, which has racked up 45,000 views online, features clips of the pair diving into waterfalls, leaping off boats, wandering along beaches and dancing with friends. During their journey, the duo travelled to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Australia, Japan and England and recorded the footage each day on their mobile phones.

A nostalgic collection of postcards from the 60s and 70s showcase the Great British summer in dazzling colour and serve as a reminder of the UK's many tourism delights. A photography pioneer, John Hinde depicted sun-drenched days in central London, rural Ireland and some of Britain's best-loved beach destinations, all developed in highly saturated colour.MailOnline Travel has selected some of his finest creations

Six two-level beach huts (top right) are set to open to the public at the luxurious Cary Arms, a boutique hotel in Torquay, Devon, where guests can admire views across Lyme Bay (inset) to Portland, in Dorset, from a king double bed. The main level features a sitting area with a comfortable sofa (bottom right), a wood-burning stove, wet bar and a bathroom (bottom left), while the upper level has a bed in front of a glass half-wall (top left). The huts are part of the de Savary family's £4.5million development plans for new suites and a spa at the seaside inn.

The landmark Paris Ritz hotel has opened its palatial doors to guests after nearly four years of renovations and a major fire. The classically styled hotel, owned by Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, has undergone a top-to-bottom overhaul after promising a 'legend to be reborn' when it closed for the works in 2012. The Ritz, situated on the swanky Place Vendome, now only has 142 rooms and suites, compared to 159 previously, but not all of them will be immediately available as final touches are still taking place.

Dotted around the northern regions of California are a handful of the oldest redwoods and giant sequoias in the world, reaching up to the skies like something out of Tolkien's universe. These colossal trees can grow to be over 300ft high and 3,000 years old. Over time, their trunks have become wide enough for enterprising locals to hollow out the middle to create spectacular drive-through trees, the first of which dates back to 1875. In a trend that continues today (right), holidaymakers would pass through the incredible structures in their vintage cars (inset).

Daredevil riders can admire stunning views of the sea and small islands while they try to avoid looking down on the SkyCycle ride at an amusement park in Okayama, Japan. They must do all of the work as they make their way around the track in a tandem cycle car. Each car is wide open and doesn't have any rails to protect the occupants - just a seatbelt - at a height equalling four storeys.

The spectacular attraction has been created to revive the initial vision - never realised - of Andre Le Notre, principal gardener to King Louis XIV. It is one of three water features installed by artist Olafur Eliasson at the landmark near Paris. The renowned 49-year old artist, who grew up in Iceland and Denmark, presented his June 7 to October 30 exhibition early last week ahead of its opening. 'The waterfall is an attempt to finalise, to make the impossible possible, to make the dreams come true,' he said.

The 1,250-acre Farnham Estate in Cavan, Ireland, comes with an 18-hole Jeff Howes-designed golf course and a 40,000 sq ft luxury spa designed by Heinz Schletterer. For outdoor lovers, the 16th century estate also offers over four miles of walking and cycling trails and lakes for fresh-water fishing.

Multi-millionaire Garrett Gee, his wife, Jessica and their two children, Dorothy and Manilla, from Utah, have been travelling the world after Gee sold mobile scanning app QR to Snapchat last year for $54million. Pit stops for the 'Bucket List Family' as they are known online, have included the Bahamas (top left), Fiji, Dominica (bottom left), Australia, Saint Martin (top right), New Zealand and Antigua (center).

Sometimes the journey is more incredible than the destination itself - as these jaw-dropping elevators prove. MailOnline Travel has rounded up some of the most incredible and exhilarating lifts from around the world, where the ride to the top is as thrilling as the view. Top left is the heart-stopping Bailong Elevator in China, which is clamped onto the side of a vertical cliff face. Top right is the Skyview Elevator in Sweden, which transports visitors on the outside of the world's largest spherically shaped building, bottom right is the Eiffel Tower's knuckle-whitening lift and bottom left is the 500ft Swiss Hammetschwand Elevator. Inset is the incredible lift-in-a-fish-tank at the Radisson Blu hotel in Berlin.

Called Nouveau, this concept superyacht from London-based designer Andy Waugh has dramatic lines (inset) and a water feature that runs from the sun deck's Jacuzzi across the bridge and owner's decks and down via a slide into the pool on the main deck. Waugh was inspired by the works of art nouveau artists including Alphonse Mucha and Antoni Gaudi. The graduate of the prestigious Transport Design course at Coventry University is known for his radical designs and work on superyachts as large as 400ft.

These incredible pictures show the lighthouse at its most dramatic, with rough waters 65ft high in 87mph winds smashing against the rock it's built on. The lighthouse, which is still operational despite being unmanned, just manages to stay clear of the waves. It sits in the 'Raz de Sein' - a strait considered one of the most treacherous to shipping thanks to its maelstrom of currents.

These stunning images reveal the incredible Indonesian Bay where fishermen live in harmony and share the waters with whale sharks (pictured). The enormous animals are considered the world's biggest fish and can grow to be 45-foot long, or about the length of a double decker bus in the UK, and can weigh as much as 20 tonnes. But as filter-feeders, they don't bite and are generally safe to swim next to. 

Why stay in an ordinary Airbnb when you can take a step back in time, sleeping at a historic address shrouded in mystery? Thrillseekers who are brave enough to book a spine-chilling stay at a former hospital, madness chamber or funeral parlour may find that bedtime comes with entertainment in the form of uninvited ghostly guests and unexplained bumps in the night. Not for the faint-hearted, the accommodation website has released a list of the world's scariest rentals including a haunted house in the American Midwest where guests won't be reimbursed if their forced to flee the property once they encounter any 'paranormal activity'.

The England team coach, carrying the likes of captain Wayne Rooney and Premier League title-winner Jamie Vardy, is pictured driving past Max Zorin's famous villain lair from the 1985 Bond film, A View to a Kill (left). The squad are staying at the luxurious £500-a-night Auberge du Jeu Paume hotel in Chantilly, which overlooks Zorin's lair, better known as the Chateau de Chantilly, during this summer's European Championships. In the film Zorin (pictured top right, played by Christopher Walken with co-star Grace Jones) plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley. And Bond, played by Roger Moore (bottom right), is sent to infiltrate the fortress and ultimately save the day.

This incredible drone footage of the Flying Scotsman steaming across a picturesque viaduct is an impressive sight - and not just for trainspotters. A cloudy, grey day was brightened up by the iconic locomotive chugging along the tracks of the Harringworth viaduct in Northamptonshire - the longest masonry viaduct in Britain. Hundreds of amazed onlookers gathered in the field below as the magnificent train sped down the railway on its journey from London to York.

The Avianca Airbus, which was flying from Lima in Peru to Buenos Aires in Argentina, was dramatically rocked at around 41,000ft. Images of injured people standing by their seats, oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling and panels snapped and dented emerged online following the incident. One passenger claimed that it was 'a miracle that passengers survived'.