Nathalie Hambro’s postcard from… Venice
Owned by Count Brandino Brandolini d'Adda, Naranzaria restaurant and wine bar, on the Grand Canal in Venice, is utterly sublime. The restaurant’s Japanese-Brazilian chef Akira ... [read more]
Nathalie Hambro’s postcard from… Venice
Owned by Count Brandino Brandolini d'Adda, Naranzaria restaurant and wine bar, on the Grand Canal in Venice, is utterly sublime. The restaurant’s Japanese-Brazilian chef Akira ... [read more]
The Luxor Mini-Guide
While it would be easy to spend a week in Luxor, it is perfectly manageable in two days. Get the most out of a weekend ... [read more]
Heidi Kingstone’s postcard from Lagos
As I write this from Lagos, Barack Obama is in Ghana talking tough to African leaders about getting their houses in order. The American President, ... [read more]
Caroline Phillips postcard from Oyster Bay Hotel, Dar es Salaam, and Zanzibar
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is one of those places dubbed a 'hole'. It's neither particularly old, nor particularly beautiful. But read on because now there's ... [read more]
Helena Fosh’s postcard from Kamalaya
Set on a hillside, among lush tropical vegetation that leads down to a private beach, Kamalaya is built around a cave where Buddhist monks have ... [read more]
Nick Pisani’s postcard from Singapore – Australia – New Zealand – Fiji
The relatively new ‘must do’ task before planning a trip to Australasia, is to book yourself onto one of the three airlines that operate the ... [read more]
Carol Drinkwater’s postcard from Tasmania and its Bay of Fires
During the late 60s, the Labour Premier of Tasmania, the Honourable Eric Reece, nicknamed ‘Electric Eric’, made the observation that ‘tourists come to the state ... [read more]
Weekend travel press digest (20 – 21 Feb)
Revival is a bit of a theme this weekend, with the cities of Beirut and Istanbul marked out for special treatment as they recover from ... [read more]
Carol Drinkwater’s postcard from qualia Resort, Hamilton Island, Queensland
I am rarely offered the opportunity to while away days in the most sublimely hedonistic of fashions at an island resort where the cost, under ... [read more]
The Fernando de Noronha Mini-Guide
Fernando de Noronha is a group of paradise islands just off the North East coast of Brazil. Consisting of 20 small islands and one larger ... [read more]