Strawberry Hill photos by Peter Hunt
STRAWBERRY HILL
Expect much fanfare about Strawberry Hill (started in 1748) on the outskirts of London, which has just reopened after a £9 m. renovation.
You can get there easily - trains from Waterloo to Richmond, then the bus or, in pleasant weather, perhaps a boat or a stroll west along [...]

Image Courtesy of The Hôtel des Sers
Paris is famous for it’s great hotels, small and large. A recent addition to the landscape, The Hôtel des Sers is in a restored mansion in a quiet street perfectly situated near the Avenue Montaigne. It’s that rare beast – a boutique hotel with perfect interior, wonderful service and [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
It’s bleak up on Dartmoor, home to England’s most notorious prison. But don’t let that put you off. Think instead of bracing walks, stunning scenery, wild ponies grazing by the side of the path and then, back down towards the country villages of Devon, dinner and an overnight at The Elephant’s Nest [...]

La Column d’Or has long been the restaurant, (not to mention boutique accommodation) that friends had been to and I had dreamt about - thankfully a recent trip to Cannes corrected this. Just a short drive from Cannes, La Column d’Or is perched up on the hillside of Saint-Paul de Vence. Eating [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
The best card to flash in the UK? No, that platinum Amex is so city boy, so wrong. Instead we like one that has got an acorn on it. It gets you into over 300 houses.

Scoff if you want, young things, but a whole other England opens up once you’ve decided the [...]

The Queenstown lakes district is full of great hotels and homes to rent and of course, our favourite amongst them is Touch Of Spice for luxury holiday rentals throughout this region. A recent snow weekend saw us staying at one of their properties just at the foot of Coronet Peak ski field: [...]

The nicest surprise on my recent European trip was Basel. Although planned primarily as a two day birthday surprise for a friend who was in Basel for the art fair we found that our days quickly filled with some of the most amazing things I have ever seen.
Our pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp was [...]

Sitting at a waterfront table at the Nambawan Café in Port Vila, Vanuatu, I gazed out to sea and coveted the sight before me. Blue skies, even deeper blue sea, and the tallest, most elegant sailing ship I’d ever laid eyes on. Worth a cool USD $100 million, it was the floating home of [...]

Photos Courtesy of Quincy Hotel
Hallelujah! A hotel utterly conceived around the understanding that those checking in might be suffering from a common ailment called jet-lag.
The Quincy Hotel, Singapore, ticks all the boxes.
Early check-in to suit arrival times of transworld planes? Check. Super-fast transit from showing passport at front desk to bedroom with blackout blinds, (with [...]