Having recently traveled to Italy with Insight Vacations Luxury Gold, Sandy Coughlin is the third in a series of guest writers to talk about her experiences. Featured by the likes of MSN, The Huffington Post, and FoodieCrush magazine, she’s also the face behind a fantastic blog on food, Reluctant Entertainer. Most at home talking about hosting parties, gardening, traveling, sharing hospitality and bringing people together, one of the secrets to her success is conjuring the sort of recipe that everybody wants to copy. Here, however, Sandy puts her cookbooks down and talks about her experiences on the Ultimate Italy trip.

Having recently traveled to Italy with Insight Vacations Luxury Gold, Aaron Drake is the first in a series of five travel writers to talk about his experiences. Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Aaron is a global correspondent for ManAboutWorld, a leading online travel magazine for the gay community, as well as a contributor to several other travel magazines. Here, the alumnus of The Ohio State University and former editor of Gaycation and Frontiers magazines, talks about his impressions of Italy on the Ultimate Italy journey.

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, it’s time to accept that beauty talks to beauty. Therefore tease amour out of your better half by immersing them in the most sublime surroundings the planet can provide. To help choose a location most likely to play on your heartthrob’s heartstrings, here’s our selection of the 10 most romantic places in the world, to make even the most stonyhearted lover swoon.