There’s this really far-flung island, you probably haven’t heard of it…it’s called Bali? I’d heard the stories; overrated and overran by drunk parasites. When I went last year for the first time, on assignment, I was very, very ready to turn my nose up at it.

Plot twist: I absolutely loved it.

Teenagers and early-twenty-somethings can go to Bali to party and have the time of their life, but so too can a married couple of 40 years to relax and reconnect. It’s ideal for honeymooners and divorcees, clean eaters and neckbeard-nesters, full-moon types, families, the bookworm, the adventurer and the person who just needs to go somewhere – anywhere. You know the one.

Bali is beautiful, chaotic, delicious and refreshing, depending on what you want it to be. Don’t ever believe a stuck-up travel writer who tells you otherwise."