• Food and wine

What is arepas? Where to find the best of the tasty dish invented by Venezuela and Colombia

Can a dish be invented by two countries? In the case of arepas, the delicious South American corn cakes, I'm going to hesitantly say … yes.

• Ben Groundwater

• Inspiration

The good oil

Steve McKenna takes a road trip through a nation known for rum and revolutionary rhetoric.

• Trinidad and Tobago

The world's most amazing natural phenomena

Nature is always amazing, but sometimes it pulls a really freakish rabbit out of a hat.

• Top 10s

Top 10 holidays for the newly unemployed

Lost your job? Travel could be just the opportunity needed to expand horizons and build some new skills.

• Inspiration

'Currency tourists' grab cheap dollars

Flights from Venezuela to nearby countries are packed with travellers clutching credit cards and looking to make fast bucks under rules leftist President Hugo Chavez introduced to prevent capital flight.