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The Don Carlos opens exclusive Orange Beach Club
The legendary five star hotel and resort which has held pride of place on Spain’s Costa del Sol for over 40 years continues to cement its lofty position as the Don Carlos opens exclusive Orange Beach Club for the summer season after a 12 month renovation.
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Angel’s Restaurant. A very special place indeed.
Special wine is for special occasions; and the same is true of dining out. So, it was with no small measure of joy that on the proverbial dark and stormy night, in search of epicurean delight that didn’t require an advance visit to the bank for a mortgage, my curious finger flipped its way through the Michelin Red Guide to alight on Ribchester and Angel’s Restaurant, not far from my Lancashire home.
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Discover Sensational Sarlat. A Dordogne Gem of a town.
At the hub of Périgord Noir, the vintage town of Sarlat lies in a depression surrounded by a protective arrangement of wooded hills, a medieval settlement that evolved around an abbey with Carolingian roots.
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Quintinha Sao Joao. Discover this sublime Quinta experience in Funchal.
In Portuguese ‘quinta’, originally meant a farm and house let out at a rent of one-fifth of its produce, from Latin quintus, ‘one fifth. Today, it has an altogether different meaning, and, in the case of Madeira, refers to former colonial manor houses that have been converted to luxury hotels enclosed within their own grounds. Logically, then, a quintinha, is a small quinta, and such is the case with the Quintinha Sao Joao on the hillside above Funchal, overlooking the city at around 70 metres above sea level
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Il Gallo d’Oro. Enjoy fine fining in Funchal
A number of Madeiran restaurants are striving to achieve that elusive, and well-earned, Michelin star. So far, only one has reached those culinary heights, Il Gallo d’Oro restaurant, in the Cliff Bay hotel, Funchal awarded in 2009.
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NH Collection Palazzo Cinquecento Hotel. Sleep next to Rome’s magnificent history.
It’s not every day you can boast you’ve sat on a 3,000 year old piece of history, but I’m not ashamed to say I did just that on the front garden of Rome’s brand new NH Collection Palazzo Cinquecento Hotel
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