Celebrated novellist JANEY FRASER travels to Giverny for a long weekend to visit Monet’s garden ‘Remind me,’ said my husband as we boarded the Brittany ferry at Portsmouth. ‘Why are we going all the way to Normandy just to see a garden?’ He had a point. To be...
KEITH SAVIDGE reviews Princess Cruises’ latest ship Royal Princess on her first return to Southampton since she was launched by the Duchess of Cambridge Royal Princess must be one of most glamorous cruise liners at sea boasting a Hollywood sparkle all the way...
Jane Slade and her husband spent three days exploring the fascinating Medina in Fez in Morocco, staying at the luxurious Palais Amani hotel A huge steaming pot of chickpea soup bubbles away on precarious looking stove next to a barber cutting a boy’s hair. Beside him...
A once-in-a-lifetime, four-day odyssey travelling from Budapest to Istanbul on the luxurious Danube Express Your adventure begins at Budapest’s Nyugati Station after a flight from London, with a reception in the elegant Royal Waiting Room to meet fellow passengers on...
JANE SLADE visits one of the country’s top country house hotels You can’t hurry a stay at Gravetye Manor. The moment you peel off the motorway and drive through the gates you have to slow down because you can’t quite believe you are suddenly meandering along a...
JANE SLADE visits the award-winning country house hotel Llangoed Hall in the Brecon Beacons and discovers a slice of paradise The gentle clink of a china teacup being settled into its saucer, the comforting crackle of flames dancing in the big stone fireplace, and...
