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Terra Terra Italian Restaurant, London

Set over two floors the main restaurant is topside, a smart modern layout with an open bakery at one assaulting us with the arousing aroma of freshly baked bread and Tuscan oil.

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Hard Rock Hotel, London. Discover your Rock ‘n’Roll credentials.

It turns out the maiden aunt of Marble Arch has serious rock’n’roll credentials – Jimi Hendrix made it his London pied a terre and the great Buddy Holly stayed here before the day the music died.

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Rijeka and the Gulf of Kvarner, Croatia

The cobalt waters are deep enough to accommodate large ships and Rijeka is the country’s main port.

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Tewkesbury Park Hotel. Discover this plain clothes jewel

A smart, modern hotel and restaurant, recently renovated at a cost of £10m, not to mention a sweeping 18-hole golf course in 165 acres of undulating parkland,  are eclipsed only by the town’s exquisite riverbank, wealth of Tudor architecture and Tewkesbury Abbey, one of the nation’s finest Norman churches.

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Cahernane House Hotel, Killarney, Co Kerry

I almost expect Downton Abbey’s Lady Violet Crawley, 8th Dowager Countess of Grantham to sweep past in her carriage as we turn into the long avenue, shaded by a stately canopy of trees on our approach to the imposing stately Victorian Manor, Cahernane House Hotel.

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What do you pack for a stay at The Cary Arms and Spa? “The Inn on the Beach”, as the strap-line advises, gives some clues.

The Cary Arms and Spa. Experience Wonderful beachside living in Babbacombe, Devon

With palm trees, stylish motorboats whizzing across the bay for water-skiing, seas sometimes as azure as the Med and bobbing white spinnakers – this could by the French Riviera.

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