Europe and Middle East
Delicatessen. Discover Hampstead’s hipster kosher hang out.
Delicatessen is the brainchild of Israeli-born Or Golan, a student of Tel Aviv’s restaurant scene before joining Yotam Ottolenghi’s Belgravia deli as head chef. It is a genius move to open up bang in the middle of Hampstead’s affluent kosher crowd,
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New Hall Hotel. A luxury rural Tudor retreat in middle England.
Stepping out of the 21st Century, for a stay at New Hall Hotel, you expect to see Henry Vlll stomping across the drawbridge powering towards a substantial lunch in the wood-panelled-mullion-windowed Great Chamber.
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Carinthia . The Land of the Lakes and soaring peaks
Austria has long been a popular destination with British travellers, both for winter skiing and summer hiking. The Tyrol gets most of the action, but Carinthia, in South East Austria, is well worth a visit.
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Crathorne Hall Hotel. Historic luxury country house
Though it’s towering gates were patriotically donated to the 1940s war effort and never replaced – the discovery that you can’t manufacture bombers from iron came after melt-down – Crathorne Hall Hotel’s facade framed by two bell towers, still has a stately grandeur.
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Vintage House Hotel. Discover tranquil luxury in the Porto countryside.
Vintage House Hotel, a beautiful, Quinta-style mansion was once the country retreat of the Croft family. Sitting there, on a bend of the legendary Douro river surrounded by those terraced hillsides, I swear to myself there may be no finer place on Earth.
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Hotel Infante Sagres. Discover boutique luxury in the heart of Porto.
City centre hotels tend to come in two varieties; either bland international brands or faded dames from times gone by reinvigorated into trendy boutique properties. Fortunately, Hotel Infante Sagres in Porto’s centre is the latter. Not just reinvigorated but positively reincarnated into something even better than it was in its heyday.
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