The Mayfair Townhouse
If you equate Mayfair with stuffy, the Mayfair Townhouse will come as something of a…
Browsing: The Explorer
Spa of the Month: The Runnymede on Thames
The Runnymede is not what you’d call a destination spa. It has a perfectly respectable…
The Newt’s Great Garden Escape
“If you look the right way,” wrote Francis Hodgson Burnett in The Secret Garden, “you…
Where Wonky is Wonderful: The Swan at Lavenham
Am I drunk already? Have I got vertigo? I’ve walked out of my hotel bathroom…
Spa of the Month: Seaham Hall
Up North, it’s a different world. Forget about the crowded beaches of the South coast…
Carbis Bay: Revisited
It was back in 2019 that I visited Carbis Bay down in Cornwall, just outside…
111 Revisited
Back in the late summer I had a facial at 111 Harley St., about which…
Spa of the Month: Corinthia Lisbon
To say I was looking forward to my trip to Lisbon and the Corinthia Hotel…
My First Love…Camping, Part II: Now
Following the misfortune of my Girl Guides experience, the next time I camped was thirty…
My First Love…Camping, Part I: Then
In spite of foreign travel being (partly) available, we are being encouraged to holiday in…
Up the Creek…with a Paddle
IF you’ve rowed the Yukon, I guess a pootle up the Ouse at Bedford may,…
Spa of the Month: Fonteverde, Tuscany
San Casciano is picture perfect Tuscany – it’s no surprise that it’s a member of…