FOOD MILEAGE

Catch up on the latest openings, eats and reads around the world with travel editor Rhiannon Batten

CAMP

In celebration of Wales’ Year of Legends, a ‘hotel’ consisting of eight magnificent cabins is popping up at three secret locations among the valleys, beaches and mountains of North-west Wales between June and September. Each Epic Retreats cabin (choose from the Sky hut with its retractable roof to Arthur’s Cave with its ripple of plywood ribs and cosy log burner) sleeps just two people. The minimum stay is a three-night Weekend Break package that includes a campfire and dinner cooked by a local chef using only Welsh ingredients, and a hamper of hand-picked products. Add-on experiences range from fishing trips to craft beer tastings. From £795 per cabin for three nights. epic retreats. wales

READ

If you’re planning a staycation this summer but your stomach has other plans, grab a copy of Chris and Carolyn Caldicott’s new book, World Street Food. Veteran travellers, restaurateurs and food writers, the couple know their pilau from their bunny chow better than most. The book is aimed at beginners and the couple’s no-fuss approach to cooking means recipes are both easy to shop for and to follow. You don’t have to be young to cook them but it helps; recipes are aimed at gap year returnees looking to recreate the dishes they discovered on their travels, from Greek island-inspired courgette and pea fritters to an Oktoberfest-influenced schnitzel in a bun. (£9.99, Pimpernel Press)

PLAY

Contented kids mean contented parents. At least that’s the philosophy at Beaverbrook, a new hotel outside Leatherhead set in what was once the home of press baron Lord Beaverbrook. While children can learn how to make Bruce Bogtrotter chocolate cakes in the cookery school, build dens or play in a Sharky & George-run treehouse, parents can relax in its ever-so-slightly-eccentric country housestyle bedrooms (free Sipsmith damson vodka is a nice touch) and enjoy chef Kaz Suzuki’s Anglo-Italian menus (crab chilli linguine, beetroot and burrata) at an unhurried pace. More bedrooms, a spa and a second restaurant are to open later in the year. Doubles from £280, room only. beaverbrook.co.uk