Europe and Middle East

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Skiing in Ischgl and Kappl

For the moment, my mind and senses are utterly attuned as we slide past frozen waterfalls and pristine snowfields, This joins my Top Ten Runs of all time.

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Romulo Café, London

Compared with dining in the Philippines, the Romulo Café dishes retain the flavours that I remember but are not quite as much in-your-face.

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The Bell Inn, New Forest

Considering the Bell Inn in the tiny New Forest village of Brook has been owned by the same family for over 200 years, longevity seems to be part of its DNA.

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Skiing in Val Gardena

What makes Val Gardena stand out, apart from one of the world’s greatest mountain landscapes, is you are in Austria and Italy but in neither!

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Zela London

Right in the heart of London’s Aldwych theatre crowd, Zela London introduces us to “Meppon Cuisine.” A new style of cuisine where Japan meets the Med.

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Rhinefield House Hotel, Brockenhurst

Mabel Walker-Munro had Rhinefield House built back in 1887. Although Mabel was the owner of Eastwood Colliery in Nottinghamshire, she clearly preferred a laissez-faire management style based in distant Hampshire

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