Sally Shalam, national newspaper columnist, travel writer and Anglophile blogger, tells us what makes her happy when she's on her travels

'Lovely home from home’ people write in guest books the length and breadth of Britain. I know, because guest books are my bedtime reading when I’m away reviewing. They are a fast-track vignette of others’ experience. What I don’t understand is why anyone would want a home from home on holiday.