Craig Doyle's top tips

Gin, port and cheese.

Best tip for long-haul flights - gin, port and cheese and possibly a good training session before you board the plane. Take note, the port is essential!

Newlands Stadium in South Africa.

Best sporting venue. A night cricket match at Newlands Stadium in South Africa. The perfect way to spend an evening accompanied by tins of Castle. Perfect.

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Sea Lion Island, The Falklands.

Best wilderness - the Falklands. You can stay on one of the vast farms or camps on the islands and experience life in this beautiful yet bizarre place. Sea Lion Island has harems of elephant seals lounging and fighting on the beach, rock-hopper penguins bouncing up and down the cliff faces, and there isn’t another human in sight - perfect. When I was there, the bar in Stanley still only served canned beer and every house seemed to have its own war museum, with weaponry and crashed aircraft on show. As you walk onto Tumbledown mountain, there are remainders of the war still scattered over the hill, a 'living museum'. Fascinating.

Dolphin Beach, Sky Road, Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

Best B&B - Dolphin Beach, Sky Road, Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. I found this place by accident after my family and I got food poisoning whilst staying in a rented cottage ( I cooked, so my fault). We needed care and attention from a loving hotel owner. This was the only place with space, but it turned out to be the most fortunate bit of poisoning I've ever had...it is wonderful.

Check www.dolphinbeachhouse.com for details.

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Jack's Camp, Makadikadi, Botswana.

Best place to sleep - under the stars in a king size bed in Botswana. The Makadikadi salt pans stretch for miles, so far that you can see a 360 degree horizon. There is a small, yet luxurious 'Hemingway-esque' camp known as Jack's Camp on the edge of it. As a surprise for the guests, staff surreptitiously remove their bed, bedside rug, lockers etc, and place them in the middle of the vast expanse of nothing, with just a bottle of gin and ice cold tonic and a roaring camp fire for company. The guests are brought to their new abode as the sun sets and left there with nothing or no-one for miles. It is amazing.

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