TonyRidge Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
And reading this epic book becomes an even more splendid experience when you can look up from the pages and see the streets where Harriet Vane, Sayer's heroine (and mine), buys meringues, chases a murderer and tries not to be in love with the most fanciable man in fiction, Lord Peter Wimsey.
It is a splendid opportunity to experience Dakar's vibrant cultural life.
From £41 B&B for up to four, balivillacoral.com Theodora Sutcliffe The largest and most populous of Lombok's Southern islands (gilis), Gili Gede Indah is a splendid spot to experience Indonesian island life, with its tiny, but bustling villages and sweet little school.
To watch Adepero Oduye, who plays a teenage lesbian in Brooklyn in Dee Rees's splendid "Pariah," is to experience the thrill of discovery.
Finance ministers, Brussels commissioners and ECB staff share, more often than not, a splendid academic career, or experience in a national treasury office – all far from bank trading rooms, where the real action is.
I leave for home the next day in a glow the result not just of experience and splendid vittles but also of the friendliness and intelligence of the guides {it's usual to tip them a minimum of $100 apiece} and of the unseen organization behind them.
And if you don't mind the two-hour drive down to San Diego, you can experience there splendid sunshine, sandy shores and shimmering waves.
This inspired them to found DIPEx, a splendid database of individual patient experience, now called healthtalk.org, where patients can listen to other patients talking about their illness.
His creations are vivid, his dancers are splendid, and the emotions you experience during an Eifman production are unlikely to include boredom.
