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Ischgl. Heaven For Hungry Hikers

21/07/2013This entry was posted in Austria, Europe and Middle East, Tirol, Travel News and tagged on by .
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Mountain hikers are in for delicious dishes when they stop for lunch along the historic pilgrims’ path of Jakobsweg in the Paznaun-Ischgl region of the Austrian Tirol.

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Blakes Hotel, London

21/07/2013This entry was posted in England, Europe and Middle East, Hotel Reviews, London, United Kingdom and tagged on by .
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Anthea Gerrie reviews the trendy Blakes Hotel in London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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The Headland Hotel and Cottages, Fistral Beach, Newquay.

21/07/2013This entry was posted in Devon and Cornwall, England, Europe and Middle East, Hotel Reviews, United Kingdom and tagged , , on by .
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The Headland Hotel, overlooking Newquay’s Fistral Beach, is a surprise on many levels.   The heart sinks slightly driving up to the impressive but distinctly Victorian pile, much like those which sit atop cliffs all round the British coast.  But inside, while resolutely Gothic in character, recalling the great age of the railway, the hotel is anything but faded.

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Hotel Belles Rives. Juan-les-Pins

18/07/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, France, Hotel Reviews, South of France and tagged , on by .
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It’s 90 years since Cole Porter and F. Scott Fitzgerald took homes on the Cap d’Antibes, raised hell with their Hollywood friends and persuaded the glitterati the Côte d’Azur was the place to party in the summer.

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Milos Restaurant Athens

13/07/2013This entry was posted in Athens, Europe and Middle East, Greece and tagged , , on by .
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The tasting table at Milos Athens restaurant provides no hiding place from the open kitchen embracing it.

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Il Salviatino. Florence.

10/07/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, Florence, Hotel Reviews, Italy, Tuscany and tagged , , , on by .
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Standing on the terrace of Il Salviatino, a stunning 16th century  palazzo in the hills above Florence, you might be forgiven you’ve died and gone to heaven.

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51 Buckingham Gate. London

10/07/2013This entry was posted in England, Europe and Middle East, Hotel Reviews, London, United Kingdom and tagged , on by .
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So here you are, riding in a horse and carriage, following the exact route of Kate and William’s royal wedding with your own princess by your side. The only things missing are the crowds and the mounted guards of honour, but you can’t have everything can you.

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Golf in Madeira

02/07/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, Madeira, Portugal and tagged , , on by .
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“Remember Andy, the greens here always slope towards the sea.” I was being reminded about this again by my playing partner, who knew every inch of this fabulous course, as I sized up yet another tricky putt,   I suppose a little sigh was not out of order given the situation I found myself in.

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Golf on the Costa Brava

28/06/2013This entry was posted in Costa Brava, Europe and Middle East, Spain and tagged , on by .
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September 2008 was quite a special month for the Costa Brava. It was, no less, one hundred years old.  Ferran Agullo wrote an article in the esteemed Catalan newspaper La Veu de Catalunya in September 1908, where he described the ‘rugged coastline’ around Girona as the Costa Brava which is Catalan and Spanish for you know what.

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Epic Sana Algarve

28/06/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, Hotel Reviews, Portugal, The Algarve and tagged , on by .
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Building a 5-star hotel from scratch is quite an epic challenge in anyone’s book, but opening three of them in the last 6 months is on another level entirely.

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