Very exciting news: the ballot has just opened to go and stay a night at A Room for London. Set up by Living Architecture (the project to promote modern architecture in Britain co-founded by Alain de Botton and also responsible… Continue reading
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Internet: best new travel sites for hotels
We do like a good travel site and there are so many out there, yet few that really hit the spot. Well, recently two have come to our attention that do just that. First up is AHotelLife.com, set… Continue reading
Travel: Yoga holiday in sublime Provence private hamlet
Every week from May 5 to June 30. Arrive Sunday, depart Saturday (6 nights)
Funny how it happens: a few weeks ago we heard that the house we have been going to in Ireland for years is available to rent for the first time (see here), and then this: the place where… Continue reading
Holiday Rental: wonderful house by the coast in Kerry, Ireland
Available all year
It gives us both pleasure and pain to share the news that one of our favourite houses anywhere is now available to rent. It belongs to a friend of ours and we stay there every summer, and sometimes in the… Continue reading
Service: Hester Gray London – stay in London’s best houses and flats
How we wish Hester Gray London had been up and running when we got married in London a couple of years ago, and had friends and family coming from abroad who wanted to stay somewhere as comfortable as a hotel,… Continue reading
Blog: a lovely new hotel in Stockholm
Last week, I went to Stockholm with my boyfriend who was there for business. We started off staying at The Grand Hotel but we found it, well, rather too ‘Grand’ so we decided after his meetings were over, to move… Continue reading
Hotels: The Long House by Living Architecture
Writer Alain de Botton had the idea for the company Living Architecture whilst working on a book about, yes you guessed it, architecture. It’s aim is to enable people to eat, live and sleep in an outstanding architecturally designed space… Continue reading
Restaurants: St. John Hotel
Breakfast: 7-10.30am; lunch: 12-3pm and dinner: 5.30pm-2am
Sitting in the shadow of the huge, colourful and flash W Hotel, the new St. John Hotel is, by contrast, small, snug and starkly white. Opened last Saturday, it is the latest venture from chef Fergus Henderson who is endeavouring… Continue reading
Bars: the new Beaufort Bar at The Savoy
Open from 10th Oct
The Savoy used to be the bees-knees: Vivien Leigh met her future husband, Laurence Olivier, in the reception hall, Whistler and Monet painted the views from their bedroom windows and Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Wilde and the Beatles were all regular… Continue reading
Bars: The Fumoir at Claridge’s
11.30am-1am
The best thing about Claridge’s Fumoir is its size; accommodating just 12 at cosy tables and a horseshoe bar makes it perfect for intimate occasions. Despite its name, the no-smoking Fumoir captures the hotel’s Art Deco splendour in sumptuous style… Continue reading
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