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I love small intimate hotels rather than big flashy ones and ‘t Hotel in Amsterdam fitted the bill perfectly for my stay there over the weekend. My daughter discovered it – she sometimes goes to Amsterdam for work – and suggested we book there for our stay. It’s an historic canal house dating from the […]
Read MoreI’ve been looking forward to this trip for months. Well, since last September when I booked a flight to Venice and a room at one of the loveliest places I’ve stayed – Hotel Al Ponte Mocenigo. I’ve written about it before, a perfect place for the single traveller to stay. However, this time I’m very […]
Read MoreYou might say this blog started here – Hotel Al Ponte Mocenigo. But where does anything truly start? Where does the first seed germinate? Let us anyway begin in August 2006. Newly single, just moved house, I wanted a holiday. I’d recently subscribed to Conde Nast’s Traveller magazine as part of my intention to travel as […]
Read MoreA number of things led me to Greece which I’d been wanting to return to for some time: a Greek friend, proofreading Sue Kidd Monk’s lovely book Travelling with Pomegrantes for Headline, set partly in Greece, meeting Anna again at a jewellery fair (www.asimi.org.uk). I hadn’t been away on my own for a while but I just […]
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