Wales may be small, but it is perfectly formed for drivers, with its hills and valleys shaping a road network into one of the most entertaining on earth. Here are five of Detour’s favourite Welsh drives.

As sakura season brings a pure joy to Spring in Japan, Sachin Rao crosses the country chasing its fabled cherry blossom.

If you’re a Detourist and not just a tourist then avoid the crowded coast and head for the hills of Madeira reckons Simon Heptinstall.

Rare are the locations that provide perfectly scenic drives come sun or snow but the Wisconsin peninsula region does just that, says Ruksana Hussain.

Love is in the air and on the asphalt of Germany’s fabled Romantic Road.

Discover the most colourful road trip in Europe with Odiel Mennink.

Erin O’Brien takes a trip through the ancient and modern ruins of south east Turkey where danger and beauty sit side by side.

Gianni Danesi, the enterprising owner of La Fiaschetteria, a small inn in Bergamo, has devised a two-day tour that takes in the best of the Italian alps.

A team of acoustics experts has named the finest-sounding road tunnels in Britain by driving an Alfa Romeo through them and recording the sonorous soundtracks.

Simon Heptinstall hugs the coast of Northern Ireland and finds Narnia among its many treasures.

A lap of the world’s largest freshwater lake will always make for an epic road trip, says Peter Carriveau.

Truly “off the beaten path” Mongolia is an adventure-seeker’s dream road trip, says Abbie Synan.

Most people visit Franschhoek for the delicious wine, but the Franschhoek Pass is an even tastier treat for keen drivers, reckons Sudhir Matai.

Larger than life metal sculptures in the middle of the desert? No, you’re not hallucinating as the southern California summer starts wearing you down on the drive through the largest park in the state.

Put on your warmest coat and your studded tyres and join us as we reveal ten of the world’s best winter road trips.

The first official Alpine Pass ever built also happens to be the best for drivers, as Simon Heptinstall can attest.

Nathan Munn recalls blazing a trail from the west to the east coast of Canada with his band in two VW vans.

South Africa’s Coastal Garden Route offers 124 miles of driving pleasure from Mossel Bay to the Storms River, the border between the Western and the Eastern Cape. It’s a drive Elsa Dixon knows like the back of her hand.

Sudhir “Banzai” Matai goes in search of Vito Corleone as he follows the route of one of the world’s oldest road races.

Simon Heptinstall takes on one of Britain’s steepest climbs, which would have even Wordsworth breathless.