The Marylebone Hotel
I once met a couple from Jerusalem in their late fifties who had a novel…
Browsing: The Explorer
Magic In the Maldives: Coco Palm
The boat stopped and we waited in silent expectation as the morning sun beat down…
The Lanesborough: A Study in Maximalism
Having closed its doors for 18 months at the end of 2013 for a lavish…
Tewkesbury Park
There is a certain kind of English town that seems to move at a slower…
Miami Biltmore Hotel
On my skin lies the scent of Sicilian orange extract. I’ve just splashed my face…
There’s Green in Them Thar Hills
It’s argan territory, the hills outside Essaouira. Every day in Morocco we’ve been offered argan…
Dear Chester: Deva Victrix
NICK HAMMOND heads north for a spot of Roman roamin’ in a former fort town once enigmatically called Deva…
Adventures in Amalfi
Like Lucy Honeychurch and her overbearing chaperone Charlotte Bartlett in E.M. Forster’s famous novel, we…
Spa of the Month: Adler Thermae, Tuscany
It is autumn in Tuscany so you’ll be expecting mist and there seems to be…
Sweden
The Swedes are clever. They’ve invented a word that pretty much excuses eating cake every…
Salcombe Harbour Hotel
Right on the estuary in Salcombe, South Devon, is the Harbour Hotel – a modern…
Pafos2017: Cyprus’s City of Culture
I’m sitting on the terrace of the Almyra Hotel talking to Christos Patsalides, Chairman of…