Spa of the Month: Aire Ancient Baths
Prepare to enter a twilight candlelit world. Soft music plays in the background. Everywhere is…
Browsing: The Explorer
Messing About In Boats
There is something so utterly English about messing about in boats. It’s not just The…
The Mayfair Townhouse
If you equate Mayfair with stuffy, the Mayfair Townhouse will come as something of a…
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…