We used to get on planes as though they were buses but, these days, that feels a bit more complicated, expensive and wrong. So what do you do if you long for adventure? Pine for discovery? But you feel grounded - and not in the good way? Well, we have our friend Melinda Stevens on the podcast this week – she’s about as expert as travel experts get. She edited Conde Nast Traveller UK and US for years and she’s just launched Loupe - a new initiative entirely designed to give us a new way to look at the UK. Perhaps there really is a whole world on our doorstep: new openings, rich regions, hotels, shops, villages, oh my. Anything interesting happening on this sceptred isle? She’s in the loop.  Loupe on Instagram Loupe Website LINKS TO ADVENTURE... Bard Rhug The Green Cafe in Ludlow Bayley & Sage Settle  Unyolked Cowley Manor Experimental Aynhoe House  Hungerford Bookshop Angela Knight Lingerie  Wylding  The Fife Arms  Florence Knight at Sessions Arts Club Boath House Three Horseshoes in Batcombe Tillingham in Rye Pollyanna Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices