Death Becomes Her…
Sadly (and there’s no pun intended here!) I do love a bit of a cemetery visit. I’m not melancholic and I don’t visit them because I like to envelope myself in misery and grief. Quite the opposite actually – I don’t like visiting cemetries where people I know are buried as I much prefer to […]
Moroccan Doorways
That’s right. A blog about doorways. But not just any old doorways, you understand. These are Moroccan doorways. Some astonishingly elaborate, some mosaic framed, some brightly coloured, some literally hanging off their ancient hinges, some huge, some hobbit like. But all different and all beautiful and all just so, well, Moroccan… And every doorway, quite […]
Marrakech Menara
We’ve been so lucky recently to be able to do a lot of travelling and so have seen quite a few airports. Much are much of a muchness. There’s often very little that really sets one airport apart from another. But, the latest airport we flew into and out of, is definitely one of a […]
A Christmas Angel
Weather-wise, our Christmas journey north didn’t start off too well. Howling gales & lashing rain – awful driving weather, but probably a quite typical English Xmas drive on the M62 & A1… However, Boxing Day saw a real change in the weather and so a trip to the coast was in order, but not before […]
Dunham Massey
Like what you’ve seen? Visit Dunham Massey…
Le Petit Dejeuner
Although Paris is packed to the gills with the most gorgeous places to eat, sometimes its the unexpected ones you stumble upon that are the most memorable… We recently stayed in Montmatre and Saturday morning was cold and grey – much like a home from home, so it was decided that breakfast was much needed […]
Hotel Basiliani
The amazing Matera, in the region of Basilicata, in southern Italy, is going to have a blog post all of its own because it is quite simply, one the most incredible places we visited recently. This blog however, is all about Hotel Basiliani – a real modern jaw dropper, built into the rocks of the […]
Venice…
Of all of the places we visited recently, Venice has to be one of the most memorable. We arrived on a cold, misty afternoon and were prepared for the weather to stay this way as we’d been under thick cloud all the way from Rimini… The lagoon, on either side of the road bridge into […]
Rimini
Rimini – Hotel DuoMo… A very cool place indeed. The inaugral project from architect & designer, Ron Arad… What would please Me Most in a hotel is not soMeone else’s idea of chic, elegance of style, but rather coMfort, clarity and ease of access to inforMation, entertainMent and aMbience… Located in the heart of Rimini […]
Food. Glorious Food…
I think we’ve just about got used to the idea that if you are going out for a meal in Italy, you need to make sure that you are actually very hungry. Order an aperitivo at your peril…
Ragusa Ibla
We hit lucky when we were staying in Ortigia, Siciliy – a friend tipped us off about a Buskers’ Festival which was happening in the inland town of Ragusa, and so with very little knowledge about it, other than it was happening, we hit the road… The road over to Ragusa was stunning – mountainous […]
Tarsia, Italy
We needed to break the journey up from Villa San Giovanni (where you cross to & from Sicily) to Matera and so consulted our trusty oracles – a well thumbed road map and google. Tarsia seemed to be a place that was just about equi-distant, but very remote. As boutique style hotels seemed to be […]
