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Where you stay on holiday has more or less importance depending on your plans. If your plan is to lay around all day sunbathing and totally chilling out, then staying somewhere a little more luxurious with lots of facilities will be what you want. If you’re planning to more or less just sleep in a city […]
Read MoreI 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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