Mark Jones

Mark is a widely published travel writer and former editor of High Life and Discovery magazines. Describe your perfect day. 'Up a mountain. Almost any mountain.'

Art and culture

Hsiao Chin: The Globetrotting Artist from Everywhere and Nowhere

Artist Hsiao Chin reflects on the many colourful places that have influenced his abstract, multimillion-dollar canvases
Architecture

Seoul’s Evolving Cityscape

Seoul's new breed of architects and designers point us to five places that reveal the capital’s changing identity
Nature and outdoors

Why Tasmania Is the Clean Getaway You Need

Now, more than ever, it’s time for planning travel to Tasmania, a place of pure air, pristine wilderness and experiential pleasures
Taiwan China

The Quiet Retail Revolution Hitting Tainan

Mark Jones shops for art and discovers a campaign to revitalise Tainan's West Gate Market
Top hotels

Stay Here: University Arms Hotel, Autograph Collection, Cambridge

Alongside its prestigious university and Gothic architecture, the English city now has a world-class hotel to shout about with the University Arms Hotel, Autograph Collection
Nature and outdoors

A Traveller’s Guide to Clean Air

Where to find the cleanest air in the world, along with invigorating scenery and adventure
Food and drink

Sipping From the Source in Cognac

Exploring the town of Cognac – and the origins of its namesake brandy – is essential for anyone interested in French provenance
Hong Kong SAR

Nick Jones Reflects on the Opening of Soho House Hong Kong

The founder of the private members’ club for creatives is proud of attracting the 'citizens of nowhere' type to Soho House's locations, now including Sheung Wan
Food and drink

Bordeaux: Old World Wine, New Age Outlook

New architecture, infrastructure and attitudes have revived the fortunes of the southern French city of Bordeaux and its winemaking region
Art and culture

How Colour Influences Our Travel Memories

From oil paints to Instagram filters, colour has shaped how we travel and how we remember destinations
Business Travel

Osaka: A Briefing for G20 Delegates and Other Visitors

Japan’s second city will be full of young people in dark suits for the G20 summit in June 2019. But it’s not just budding world leaders who’ll need a guide
Art and culture

Capturing the Many Dimensions of Takashi Murakami

He invented ‘superflat’ art, but Takashi Murakami is far from two-dimensional, as an exhibition at Hong Kong's Tai Kwun highlights
Top hotels

The World’s Best Airport Hotels

Upgrade your next layover by checking into one of these exceptional airport hotels, from JFK’s TWA Hotel to Singapore’s Crowne Plaza
Architecture

English Mansions With Starring Movie Roles

Step back in time with visits to Hatsfield House and Chatsworth House, the stately English homes of The Favourite and Pride and Prejudice
Top hotels

Urban Hotels on the Waterfront

Enjoy rooms (and rooftops) with a view at these waterfront hotels in Brooklyn, Cape Town, Singapore and Stockholm
Top hotels

Art Deco Hotels Are Back and Bolder Than Ever

Art deco: the architectural and design style they couldn’t kill
Nature and outdoors

Celebrating Hong Kong’s Most Historic Trees

Illustrator Sally Grace Bunker and botanist Richard Saunders tell the story of Hong Kong’s natural history by getting to the root of its native trees. Here are seven of the most remarkable.
Art and culture

Stroke of Genius: AI Takes on Ink Painting

Mark Jones meets a visual artist who harnesses artificial intelligence to forge links with the ancient artform of Chinese ink painting
Top hotels

A View with a Room: Australian Luxury Lodges

From chic beachside villas through the Aboriginal heartland and into the Outback, Mark Jones explores the Australian landscape, one luxury lodge at a time
Food and drink

Sir Ian Botham’s Favourite Wine Destinations

Cricketer turned oenophile Sir Ian Botham decants a list of places in Australia, New Zealand and England that shaped his love of wine
Music

Top 16 musical travellers of all time

Mark Jones sings the praises of some of the world’s greatest wandering musicians
United Kingdom

North Coast 500: The Best Road Trip You’ve Never Heard of

It’s the new route half of Europe wants to drive – Scotland’s North Coast 500. Mark Jones seeks out the remote and unexpected sights off the circuit
Travels with

Walking the English Countryside with CS Lewis

Set out on a walking tour of England’s Narnia-like woods, streams and gentle hills with the medievalist fantasy writer
Leading luxury

4 of the world’s most impressively deluxe hotel suites

It’s all about supersized and super-luxe in these hotel rooms
Siem Reap

How to see the real Angkor Wat

Is it possible to see the famed temples of Angkor without the tourists?
Urban life

The creation of Hong Kong’s new downtown

As Quarry Bay’s latest landmark tops out, Mark Jones looks at how a former industrial neighbourhood is changing its image
Food and drink

Where to eat in Frankfurt, by Uwe Opocensky

Hong Kong-based chef Uwe Opocensky savours honest grub and Germany’s New Cooking in Frankfurt, his hometown
Tech and gadgets

Life, gravity, space: The UK’s top sci-tourism spots

His TV series and stadium shows have taken us far beyond the solar system. Now British physicist Brian Cox takes us on an exclusive tour of world-changing discoveries – all in his own backyard
Top hotels

5 of the world’s best railway hotels

Mark Jones salutes the renaissance of railway station hotels
Health and wellness

Travel Trend #3A: Vietnam’s Amanoi resort

Mark Jones reports from Vietnam’s Amanoi resort on what the latest treatments can do for achy Achilles and dodgy knees
Architecture

2018 Travel Trend #2: Asian heritage

There’s a good reason why politicians and entrepreneurs are pouring money into old buildings: they pay you back
Denmark

2018 Travel Trend #1a: Denmark

If you’re after a European destination with coastline, creativity and history, put Denmark’s Jutland peninsula on your radar this year
Top hotels

Helena May Women’s Club: Important or Passé?

The Helena May women’s club has been a Hong Kong institution for a century. But is it still relevant?
Mongolia

The Great Mongolian Open-Air Theatre

A first-time visitor decamps from the city to experience Mongolia’s wide-open, surround sound, technicolour wilderness
Italy

Why Winter’s a Good Time to Go to the Amalfi Coast

Italy’s Amalfi Coast: testing in summer, sublime in winter
Food and drink

Amber restaurant to close … for a while

Amber brought magic and controversy to Hong Kong’s fine dining scene. But what will its new, refurbished incarnation bring?
Myanmar

The best kind of friendly: Football tour in Myanmar

England’s most adventurous and least famous football team takes on a mission of sporting friendship in Myanmar
Adelaide

The ultimate guide to Adelaide

Want Australia in a nutshell? Adelaide beats its more high-profile neighbours hands down. Now Australia’s ‘big country town’ is getting a bizarre new landmark
Germany

Düsseldorf: A Different Kind of Radical

Orderly, businesslike and liveable, Düsseldorf may not seem like one of Europe’s centres of innovation. But it is – and it goes to the German city’s very DNA
Top hotels

Hong Kong’s best hotels since 1997 (Part 2)

‘Visually silent’ hotels and luggage kept in jail cells. Part two of Hong Kong’s post-1997, ever-changing hotel scene
Top hotels

Hong Kong’s best hotels since 1997 (Part 1)

From boutiques to bling, havens to heritage – how the city’s hotel scene has changed since 1997
Okinawa

The magic of Okinawa beyond the brochure

A new spirit in the air of Japan’s southern islands
Sanya

Surf, Golf, Bike: Adventures in Hainan

Sanya has long been China’s destination for sun and sand, but now, it’s starting to get active
New Zealand

5 Ways to Enjoy New Zealand’s Natural Charm

Do luxury lodges and wild encounters go together? If there’s one place that can make it work, it’s New Zealand
Germany

The modest, reserved, ninth most famous city in Germany

Düsseldorf doesn't make lists of hot travel destinations, but give the city a go and it will reveal its secrets
Inflight entertainment

Planet Hollywood: Earth’s otherworldly film settings

From the Maldives to New Zealand - these remote places have stood in for the exotic planets of your favourite Hollywood space adventures
Paris

A love letter to Paris

‘Paris is no longer Paris.’ So said President Trump. As the world’s attention again alights on the French capital, Mark Jones takes a personal journey to find out if its legendary élan is still there
Nature and outdoors

Beach vs Mountain: What’s Your Traveller Type?

Travellers are either beach or mountain people. Which side do you fall on?
United Kingdom

Journey to Jura, Scotland’s far-away whisky distillery

Mark Jones makes a pilgrimage through rough seas, hard lands and disapproving clouds to taste some of Scotland’s finest whisky on one of its most ‘ungetatable’ rocky outcrops: Jura
New York

The new New York: How Lower Manhattan came back

How the fashionable money moved to New York's south
Walking and cycling

Hikers’ heaven: The Greek Zagori

Mark Jones explores a utopia of stone bridges, hiking trails and food as clean as the mountain air hidden in the Greek Zagori
Bali

5 reasons to visit Bali next

Temples, museums, beach clubs and more
Australia

The Wonders of Western Australia’s Coral Coast

Travel 350 million years through time on a journey along Western Australia’s extraordinary Coral Coast

Mark Jones

Mark is a widely published travel writer and former editor of High Life and Discovery magazines. Describe your perfect day. 'Up a mountain. Almost any mountain.'

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