♥ Kinnitty Castle: Gothic with a Ghost
I headed off on Saturday morning with my good friends A, J and M for the depths of middle Ireland. We were on our way to Kinnitty Castle Hotel in County Offaly for a short break. Kinnitty Castle...
View Article♥ Burgers at The Ritz: The Hemingway Bar
The prices at The Hemingway Bar at The Ritz Hotel in Paris are staggeringly expensive; cocktails €30, a glass of champagne €27 and a bottle of beer €14. Ouch. In fairness the experience is well...
View Article♥ Coffee in Dublin//Two: The Merrion Hotel
Walk for a couple of hundred yards in central Dublin and you will inevitability pass a couple of cafés. The quality and the price of the cup of coffee on offer will be variable. In almost all cases...
View Article♥ Antibes
The view from plane on its descent into Nice Airport was fairly intoxicating. Rippling sparkly sapphire sea blending into sandy beaches that snaked around coves and inlets, hills hotch-potched with...
View Article♥ Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Timing is of course everything. As I was in the South of France in early May I missed the chance to spot Cannes-going celebrities as the Film Festival only started this week. Home from home to many...
View Article♥ Cambridge Lunch: Hôtel du Vin
The Hôtel du Vin on Cambridge’s Trumpington Street is a stone’s throw from the Fitzwilliam Museum and from the city’s many dizzingly magnificent college buildings. As you may know the Hôtel du Vin is a...
View Article♥ Cronuts at The Marker Hotel
Just in case you have been on planet Zog for the last little while and haven’t heard of the cronut furore, I will tell you that a cronut is a croissant-doughnut fusion. French pastry chef Dominique...
View Article♥ The Wild Rabbit, Kingham
When I was in the Cotswolds recently I stayed at the Wild Rabbit in the surreally pretty village of Kingham. The Wild Rabbit is a pub with rooms and a restaurant but to describe it simply thus gives no...
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