La Faim des Haricots, Toulouse
A one night stand, as it were, to make hotel availability work between the Spanish Paradore and Carcassonne. We’re in a simple but quirky hotel right by the river (the […]
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Heredad Beragú, Spain
First proper stop on our road trip. We arrived in Bilbao very early and motored to the Arts Hotel. A proper grown up smart international hotel with uniformed staff who […]
Artist Residence Bristol
We’re getting old. We’ve been to their place in Pimlico and now we’re in Bristol. Edgy? Is that a sign of old age? Zoologie in Bordeaux could be similar, if […]
Crinan Hotel, Argyll
It seems a whole lifetime since we were last at Crinan. New Year 2019/20 to be exact, before we knew anything about Covid. Can you believe it? Only a few […]
The Alice Hawthorn, Nun Monkton
Do you think the days of one, two or three Michelin restaurants are over? Or the dreaded ‘27 course tasting menus’? We were reading about that restaurant at the end of […]
The Olive Tree, Bath
Bath. It really is splendid. The miles of elegant stone terraces are for Bath what Persimmon is doing everywhere else. Well, that’s a touch unkind; Bath saw a great expansion […]
Drunken Duck Inn, Barngates
Another revisit. This time to our old favourite, the Drunken Duck between Windermere and Coniston. Oh how we’ve missed you. After a typical glorious Yorkshire summer, over here in the […]
Hope Street Hotel
Gradually, and with a good deal of hesitancy, life slowly thinks about what it will be like when things return to normal – whatever that might be. It’s the first […]
Hotel des Arts, Saigon, Vietnam
Now for something completely different, as Monty Python used to say. Remember them? Saigon (to the people of the south – Ho Chi Minh to the northerners) is vibrant. Very […]
Crinan Hotel, Crinan, Argyll
Your view out across the water is interrupted by a rather mean looking whirlpool in the middle of the sea – the Corryvreckan no less. We’ve been through it a […]
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