Europe and Middle East

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Radisson Blu Royal Viking, Stockholm

Excitement is in the air here; the hotel as just completed a top to toe refurbishment just in time for her 35th birthday celebrations

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Insider Guide to Stockholm

The rain wasn’t deterring the intrepid visitors standing in a long line outside the ABBA museum. Didn’t bother me much either as I was snugly dry inside Stockholm’s hop on hop off bus as it passed them by.

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Fairmont St Andrews Hotel. A glorious Scottish welcome at the home of golf.

If your ball heads towards the cold dark sea, look beyond for consolation, towards a lone fishing boat tossing on the waves. This is the boat that will catch lobster for your supper in the Fairmont St Andrew’s Bar and Grill.

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Novikov Restaurant & Bar, London

It’s a bit like a restaurant theme park, with a Pan-Asian occupying the front and an Italian at the back and that’s where I’m bound

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Fête des Vignerons, Vevey

Andy Mossack gets a front-row seat to the Fête des Vignerons, a once in every generation wine-growing festival in Vevey, Switzerland.

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Celebrating the Bauhaus in Berlin

The Bauhaus was one of the 20th century’s most influential schools of art, design and architecture.

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