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Anthea Gerrie

The Headland Hotel and Cottages, Fistral Beach, Newquay.

21/07/2013This entry was posted in Devon and Cornwall, England, Europe and Middle East, Hotel Reviews, United Kingdom and tagged , , on by .
The Headland Exterior with Stormy Seas

The Headland Hotel, overlooking Newquay’s Fistral Beach, is a surprise on many levels.   The heart sinks slightly driving up to the impressive but distinctly Victorian pile, much like those which sit atop cliffs all round the British coast.  But inside, while resolutely Gothic in character, recalling the great age of the railway, the hotel is anything but faded.

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Hotel Belles Rives. Juan-les-Pins

18/07/2013This entry was posted in Europe and Middle East, France, Hotel Reviews, South of France and tagged , on by .
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It’s 90 years since Cole Porter and F. Scott Fitzgerald took homes on the Cap d’Antibes, raised hell with their Hollywood friends and persuaded the glitterati the Côte d’Azur was the place to party in the summer.

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The Rambagh Palace, Jaipur

01/07/2013This entry was posted in Asia, Hotel Reviews, India, Jaipur and tagged , , on by .
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Walk into Jaipur’s Rambagh Palace and you immediately feel like an extra in a costume drama about the last days of the Raj. Turbanned bearers are everywhere, sentries on horseback stand to attention for a maharajah long departed and posh people take tea on the lawn, blissfully removed from the bustle of the Pink City and its bazaars.

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