Europe and Middle East

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Hilton London Gatwick Airport.

Hilton London Gatwick Airport.

Andy Mossack reviews the Hilton London Gatwick Airport for an overnight stay before an early morning flight.

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Ischgl. Heaven For Hungry Hikers

Mountain hikers are in for delicious dishes when they stop for lunch along the historic pilgrims’ path of Jakobsweg in the Paznaun-Ischgl region of the Austrian Tirol.

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Blakes Hotel, London

Anthea Gerrie reviews the trendy Blakes Hotel in London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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The Headland Hotel and Cottages, Fistral Beach, Newquay.

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 […]

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Hotel Belles Rives. Juan-les-Pins

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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Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Berlin

It was the electric shaver and toothbrush that finally did it for me. I had left them, as you do, lying by the sink in the bathroom and came back to find them both tenderly lying on velvety cotton cloths

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