Lapland is a winter wonderland that will thrill kids from one to 92 (as Nat King Cole liked to sing) with reindeer, elves and snowy skids all within easy reach of Rovaniemi.

Endless views to the horizon, the smell of salt spray in the air and asphalt that twists and turns with the coastline. There’s nothing quite like an ocean drive. Here are ten of Detour’s favourite seaside sojourns.

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni salt flats dwarf those at Bonneville in Utah. It’s not a place for speed freaks, but rather for adventure lovers seeking to find their place in this wide world.

Every road trips needs a playlist – unless you happen to be driving on one of the world’s musical roads.

PJ O’Rourke wrote that the fastest car in the world is a hire car. Should you happen to holiday in Crete and take the road from Anopolis to Hora Sfakion, you’ll soon see what he meant.

Making a pit stop on a British motorway is seldom a pleasant experience. Increasingly dominated by fast food chains and supermarkets, they’re a soulless necessity for a caffeine kick and a fill of fuel. But there is one very notable exception – Tebay on the M6 in Cumbria.

You don’t have to leave Europe for a tortuous, undulating desert drive. Southern Spain’s barren beauty is the setting of the Puerto de Velefique, a sensational mountain road with a bewildering array of corners, climbing through the parched landscape.

If you like to live fast then perhaps your ideal home could be one of the new racetrack residences at the growing number of car country clubs across the globe?

Billed as “America’s Favorite (sic) Drive” the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches over 400 miles from the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

La belle France is rich in racing history and marvellous mountainous topography. Here are five fantastic road trips that every petrolhead should take for a taste of both.

The fast and flowing roads of Salisbury Plain come with an added frisson of danger. Stray off them and you may find yourself in the middle of a war game with all-too-real consequences.

After plans for an epic drive fell through journalist Charlotte Vowden realised her Favourite Detour is anywhere that her, her father and her MGA go together.

In August 2020 6,000 tonnes of “car sized” rocks fell and blocked the A83 between Inverary and Crianlarich. Yet, amazingly, by the standards of The Rest and Be Thankful road, this was a relatively small disruption.

Norway, land of fabulous fjords and majestic mountains, is a driver’s delight thanks to a road network that zigs and zags along its coast and sends switchbacks up its peaks.

“Hang on lads, I’ve got an idea.” Take a drive up the stunning Colle de Nivolet and you’ll be following in the wheeltracks of Michael Caine.

Perched high on an Austrian mountain top, just like a villain’s lair is the incredible 007 Elements. Not simply a museum, but an immersion into the world of James Bond.

From horrifying hitch-hikers to phantom horsemen, America’s roads are rife with haunting stories. Here are five drives for wannabe Ghostbusters to seek out and the rest of us to avoid.

Atlantic Highway is something of an exaggeration. The A39 from Porlock to Barnstaple is a winding single carriageway, but it most definitely delivers on the Atlantic part of its name, with stunning views across the ocean.

First a word of caution. Not about the trolls that give this incredible road its name, but about the tourists who flock to drive it. The Trollstigen (Troll’s tongue) road is the most popular tourist drive in Norway with more than half a million visitors each summer.

Reims hasn’t hosted a Grand Prix since 1966, but the faded glory of its photogenic pit lane is still a draw for drivers.