Europe and Middle East

Exclusive guide to the best holiday destinations in Europe and Middle East. independent reviews from award-winning travel writers

hiking Lake Garda

Hiking Lake Garda

The whole area around Lake Garda is honeycombed with trails and you can access them from any of the villages scattered on its shores

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Quaint Kessingland beach.

Insider’s Guide To Hidden Norfolk

It is the unspoilt timelessness of Norfolk which burns its way into the hearts of visitors and fills locals with such fierce pride about their birthplace.

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The Holkham Triumphal Arch

If follies were built as grand statements of status by Georgian landed gentry, then the Holkham Triumphal Arch certainly fits the bill.

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Hell Bay Hotel, Bryher, Isles of Scilly

There’s a light, bright New England beach/house-chic to Hell Bay Hotel’s mid-blue clapperboard architecture.

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Great Northern Hotel, London

My Cubitt room was a masterful use of space. The largest of the three room classes and named after the great man himself, everything in it was compact yet beautifully designed

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12:51 Restaurant, London

The magic which saw Cochran named Champion of Champions for the 2018 GBM season is being dispensed from a small storefront restaurant strategically placed on Islington’s Upper Street

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