Bedruthan Hotel a perfect getaway in North Cornwall. The stylish Bedruthan Hotel, built into the cliffs above the golden beach of Mawgan Porth, is only a short distance from Newquay airport and is an ideal base for a family or walking holiday exploring the beautiful North Cornish coast. It is dog-friendly with rooms suitable for […]
Opera, sustainability and the Modern Seigneur – A trip to Sark
Visiting Sark for the Opera Festival. What brings a group of strangers to spend a weekend on Sark, the smallest of the four main Channel Islands… One with no cars, with a claim to fame of being the most recently abolished feudal system in Europe and with their very own Seigneur. An intimate Opera Festival […]
room2 Hometel Southampton – Review
Staying on the Dock of the Bay New restaurant concepts turn up on a regular basis but innovation in the traditionally more conservative hotel sector is harder to find. The idea of the ‘hometel’ as introduced by room2, a new hospitality brand, is to bring together the ‘best bits of hotels’ with the ‘comfort and […]
Alone with the Rosetta Stone – VIP Private Access to the British Museum
Early bird guided tour – Egyptian galleries and other treasures Did you know almost six million people visited the British Museum last year? While it’s great that so many tourists and locals appreciate the wonderful collections of artefacts that we have here in London, those of us who know the British Museum well can sometimes […]
Home Farm Glamping – rural retreat right on London’s doorstep
London’s nearest glamping site offers something for everyone. London’s sprawl doesn’t end abruptly at a point where townscape suddenly becomes landscape, it has fringes where city bleeds into country. And near one of those fringes lies Home Farm Glamping, London’s nearest glamping site. Although only a few minutes’ drive from the end of the Jubilee […]
Agatha Christie in Devon – The English Riviera
Exploring Devon and Agatha Christie. Who would you put on a list of English Literary Heroes? There are some obvious contenders – Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth for instance. How about more recent figures like J K Rowling or Julian Barnes? For whatever reason, despite being the best-selling novelist of […]
Burgh Island Hotel – Devon Art Deco and Decadence
The Great White Palace – Burgh Island Hotel – channel your inner Agatha. What better setting for a murder mystery than an island. Perhaps that was why Burgh Island inspired not one but two of Agatha Christie’s novels (‘Evil Under the Sun’ and ‘ And Then There Were None’). Or was it just because she […]
The Perfect Holiday Retreat – Wild Oak Barn, East Devon
The Devon Spotted Pig and Wild Oak Barn. The Story of The Devon Spotted Pig. Once upon a time in Devon, a holiday home nestled among the rolling hills… Carolyn and Paul Bellinger planted some seeds and took off for a well-earned summer break in Corfu. They returned a few weeks later, to a […]
Hotel Indigo, Stratford upon Avon
A new place opens alongside Shakespeare’s New Place! Themed destination hotels have come a long way. On a business trip, I once refused to spend the night in a Wild West-themed bedroom complete with covered wagon, only to find myself upgraded to “Ali Baba’s Cave” and sleeping in Scheherazade’s bower! At the newly opened Hotel […]
The Scarlet Hotel – Mawgan Porth – Review
The Scarlet, a modern eco-hotel in Cornwall The Scarlet, a modern, eco, adults-only, hotel is set in a beautiful location on the North Cornish coast overlooking Mawgan Porth. Having read a lot of positive press about the hotel I was intrigued and very keen to visit for an overnight stay. I had been informed that […]