Take a break from the sun lounger and pool bar when you visit Mauritius and explore the extraordinary, tragic history of this holiday isle with a story to tell.

Now and then when you’re travelling you come across something so authentic that it takes your breath away. It may be an untouched area in nature, or a work of art, or a place that took centuries to evolve and served a purpose. That was the case for Sue when she visited Al-Balad, the old town district of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Next week: The Chinese province of Sichuan takes its distinctive style of cooking very seriously — so much so that it has set up a museum devoted to the subject.

Afaranwide got a namecheck this week on the Daily Drone website. This site is run by Alastair McIntyre, a former colleague on the Daily Express, a national daily newspaper in the UK. We’d sent along a couple of cartoons about the Apollo 11 Moon landing by the great Express cartoonist Michael Cummings that were in Colin’s boyhood space scrapbooks.

Still on the subject of Apollo 11, our virtual reality recreation of the Apollo 11 mission in our front room continues to prove popular on social media. View the entire mission, including the Eagle lunar module landing next to our TV, here.