Europe and Middle East

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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 and Bar

Novikov Restaurant and Bar. London’s best spot to be seen in.

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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Hotel Indigo. Chester

Architectural Layers, as our room decor theme has been designated by designers,  is one of three local inspirations for this new hotel aiming to relate intimately to its surroundings

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Orient London, Chinatown

Orient London offers up fresh and authentic Chinese dishes from comforting mainstays for the majority of us to an opportunity for diners feeling the need to delve deeper into the unusual and exotic.

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