What a treat, a day and night away at Hotel Navis, in Opatija, is. Built into a cliff-face, and with all rooms overlooking the sea, it is situated between Rijeka and Volosko, on Preluk Bay – and for us, not too far away from our home in Istria. We spotted the hotel on one of […]
By sheer coincidence, the second hotel we booked on our recent trip to Mallorca – the Lluna Aqua Hotel in Sóller – just turned out to be the sister hotel of the Brondo Architect Hotel where we stayed in Palma. We had no idea that they were connected but both just exuded real style for […]
Over the last few years, we’ve been very lucky to be able to pack in a huge amount of travel – as well as actually move abroad, relocating from Manchester to Istria, in northern Croatia. We’ve spent the last couple of years renovating a stone house and exploring our new environment. But, one place has […]
Sometimes, you see somewhere online and you just have to go. No matter what. This happened recently when I discovered the website for the Hotel Grand Wiesler, in Graz, in the Styria region of southern Austria. When we lived in Manchester, the thought of seeing a hotel online, in another country, and planning a spontaneous […]
Having lived in Didsbury for a very long time, we know a lot about Eleven Didsbury Park and its sister hotel, Didsbury House. We’ve stayed at Didsbury House previously and have attended weddings there, and it really, really does have the wow factor. On this trip, we were also attending a wedding in Didsbury and […]
One of the things that we have discovered on our travels, is that flexibility can often mean being able to stay in places that would normally be otherwise a bit too pricey to justify an off-the-cuff trip. We’re very lucky that our circumstances allow us to be flexible and so we’re always on the look-out […]
On its own website, L’Agnata di De Andre, set at the foot of Mount Limbara in Northern Sardinia, is described as a “country chic hotel”. It is set in the country – in fact, it’s so remote, it’s very difficult to find initially – and it is very “chic”. But it’s as far from a […]
Copenhagen has long been on our “must visit” list, but for a variety of reasons – in hindsight, all ill founded – it’s taken us way too long to get there. Too cold, too near to home, too expensive, too much like home etc etc. How wrong were we? We were right about how close […]
Before we went on our Italian travels last year, I blogged about a Sardinian hotel I’d found in Herbert Ypma’s “Hip Hotels – Italy”. Hotel Le Dune. This hotel is an insight into Sardinia’s mining past. It is described as “a tiny outpost of style and comfort in the middle of an inhospitable wilderness” – […]
So, as soon as we arrived back from Los Caracoles, I had to check if a suite was available later in the week, because we’d been so enchanted by out stay here. And, we were in luck! £53 via Booking.com for a suite – living room, double bedroom, large bathroom with corner bathroom and private […]
This is riad is quite simply, stunning. Located right on the sea walls, and converted from a very grand 19th century residence, you just could not have a better place to stay in Essaouira. The entrance to the riad is breath-taking – hand carved thuya wooden ceilings, stained glass windows, mosaic tiled walls and floors, […]
DuoMo Hotel, Via g. Bruno 28, 47921 Rimini, Italy This hotel was another amazing find. We booked one night online, trusting our gut instinct and wow! Upon arrival we immediately booked a second night as we knew this was going to be something very special. “What would please Me Most in a hotel is not […]