Browsing: The Explorer

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“Effortlessly elegant and as batty as a fruitcake, Erlend Clouston shows me around his beautiful ground floor apartment.” Nick visits Edinburgh’s No. 2 Cambridge Street…

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“Where on earth could you be expected to start when trying to write about a city like Florence? Florence is not a place that has a beginning, middle and an end, it is a complex, beautiful, multifarious metropolis.”

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“We were setting off on that time-honoured jaunt round the Mediterranean that only a cruise can provide in true splendour and comfort…” Larman and his ‘newly-affianced one’ embrace the comforts of ocean travel…

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As a gardener is despatched for a cucumber to dress a guest’s Pimms, Angela Clutton finds there’s more than one notable moment that makes this country hotel stand out…

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“As we turned into the throng of the city I was aware of the juxtaposition of the ultra-modern with the elemental.” Larry leaves the green jungle to enter the grey in the conclusion of his Thai adventure…

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“The welcome is generous in its warmth, drinks are poured and recommendations proffered as you go over the check-in details.” Noah visits the Ritz Madrid…

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“I awake to a hazy city scene blanketed in smog, like a particularly foggy Lowry painting, a subdued contrast to the flashing brilliance of the animated adverts of the night before…” Like a modern day Alice, Gabrielle arrives in Wonderland…

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“If ever there was a day to be out in the British countryside, it is this day. Early-August and baking – the hottest day of the year.” Noah reminisces on a trip to the Cotswolds…

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“I have arrived in the most extraordinary place. As I write I am sat in a wooden treetop bar, straining against candlelight, the distant hills of Burma sporadically illuminated by streaks of lightning.” In Part 2 of his epic adventure, Larry enters the wilds of northern Thailand…

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“My father spent much time in Geneva…and suggested that I spend some time there in the calm and tranquil surroundings of classically approved beauty. But what did I care for such things?” Lavinia Blundell-White savours a Swiss idyll…

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“While traditionally associated with red trouser-wearing old men, Cognac has undergone a welcome transformation.” Lucy Shaw finds gold in a glass off the coast of France…

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“A warm orange sun burned through the haze that diffused the Doi Suthep mountains and, instinctively, I heard the theme to ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’ in my head – until I realised it was coming from the stereo in the bar behind me.” Larry begins an odyssey across Thailand…

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