Europe and Middle East

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Wellington Club Restaurant

The Wellington Club Restaurant. Experience one of London’s most famous clubs.

The Wellington is a club with quite the storied past. Formerly in Knightsbridge, its membership list read like a celebrity who’s who and was famously where Lord Lucan had a final tipple before vanishing.

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Church Road Restaurant. Leafy Barnes London Eatery

With all the good restaurants in central London, a neighbourhood eatery has to be something special to attract outsiders onto an Overground and a bus to join the chattering classes during the dinner hour. 

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Opened in the early part of the 20th century, the Waterhead Hotel, south of Ambleside, was one of a new ‘breed’ of hotels purpose-built to accommodate the rising tide of affluent tourists to the Lake District.

Waterhead Hotel, Cumbria

The discerning hotel visitor will know that there are few pleasures in life more agreeable than time devoted to the ritual of Afternoon Tea

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DO BRATISLAVA

A-Rosa Donna Danube Highlights Cruise – Bratislava

Bratislava is a gem of a city. Cobbled pedestrian streets wind through an old town displaying both Gothic and Medieval remnants as well as Baroque grand palaces

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Rupert Parker takes a road trip disovering the southern shores of Norway

Discovering the Southern Shores of Norway. Wander around tranquil forests and lakes.

At the beginning of October, it’s still warm, but the locals have gone back to work and there’s no traffic on the roads and I have the place to myself.

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Insider guide to Valencia. Fall under her spell.

Valencia is quite the enigma. Just as comfortable holding hands with Baroque and Romanesque as she is with courting contemporary

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