Gilly Pickup travels to the remote Isle of Man and finds some surprising things, like wallabies and a UNESCO biosphere region.

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA — This is a city that doesn’t do anything by halves, when you consider that it has more than two hundred museums and, before the revolution, a thousand or so palaces.

TBILISI, GEORGIA - I quickly discovered that the Georgians overfeed you with pleasure. It was only my second day in the country and I’d already experienced three supras, or feasts.

SARK, ENGLAND — The rain had stopped, which renewed my enthusiasm for exploring tiny Sark, an island which is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Smallest of the Channel Islands and only accessible by boat, Sark is unique in that it is a fiefdom granted to the Seigneurie of St Ouen in Jersey way back in 1565, with the proviso that he keep the island free from pirates.

TELC, Czech Republic - According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Czech Republic has the most castles per square kilometre of any country in the world.