Take a ferry to Esbjerg from Harwich and spend a week exploring the fabulous lakes and beaches of both countries with Scantours (020 7554 3530; scantours.co.uk).
The formulas provide the plot structure and momentum that enable his characters to explore the fabulous places he imagines and reveal the underlying forces that make those places tick: colonialism, uneven development, cultural syncretism, urbanism.
But my absolute book of the year is Philip Davies's hefty, gorgeous London: Hidden Interiors (English Heritage/Atlantic Publishing), which explores 180 fabulous London interior spaces that most people know nothing about, from George Gilbert Scott's wondrous chapel at King's College to L Manze's eel, pie and mash shop in Walthamstow.
The little book of civilisation is a really fabulous resource exploring how civil engineering is behind the infrastructure that supports our daily life – from roads to railways to hospitals to schools, to access to drinking water and shelter from the weather – and how we often only realise its value when parts of it fail or are taken away.
Additional passionate religious voices, including those of evangelicals, can be heard in a fabulous film exploring the "vitality and diversity of today's religious-environmental activists".
During the voyage home, she and her friends explored first class — "fabulous shops, lounges, wide staircases, people in evening dress" — and saw Jack Benny and Hedy Lamarr.
This is also a fabulous jumping-off point for exploring the south of Brazil.
In this town of dark shadows and mid-day drunks, I explore the unexpected and fabulous.
Fabulous Jakobsplan compiles works by over a dozen international creators, each exploring and confront the "hard lines and soft curves of Weimar's most notorious building".
017687 73966, naturetrek.co.uk Belize has the world's second largest offshore reef, a fabulous place to explore by boat.
