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Last min getaways
In a tailspin about booking your summer hols? So organised you’re already looking ahead to Autumn? Here’s some expert advice
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Travel trend: cruising gets stylish
Take your mind out of the gutter, I’m talking about holidays. Hey, I saw you roll your eyes and do that whole ‘Pah! I don’t do cruises thing’. But have you heard about the new kind of cruise – boutique river cruises, like this one (pictured) from L.A-based travel agents Uniworld? This is their Bordeaux, Vineyards and […]
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Get holiday inspired!
I don’t know about you, but as I’ve got older I’ve realised that time, rather than money, is a more precious, sought after commodity (deep, yes, I know). I used to think that hours googling holiday destinations would save me pennies, but now I’m not so sure that’s the case. And anyway if there’s an […]
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6 Hot Holiday Destinations To Book Now!
The clocks go back this Sunday and those lovely daylight hours will gradually dwindle to just seven hours and 40 minutes by December (the winter solstice). Nooooooo! But it’s okay for 2 reasons. Firstly because there’s still a lot of fun to be had in the coldest part of the year and you’ll be able to […]
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My Favourite Places: Pam Harper from British Fine Foods
Almost 10 years ago, husband and wife team, Andrew and Pam Harper, set up award-winning British Fine Foods – hand picking the best British artisan foods from around the country to create luxury hampers and gifts. Not surprisingly when I asked Pam to let us in on her favourite places they were mainly food related. So […]
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Wouldn’t you though?
*Snort*. Where am I? Oh, my apologies, you woke me up. This is what happens when you stretch out on the world’s sexiest beach towel – it transported me to the Ibiza sunshine, where I was having a Sea Breeze cocktail under sail… Well, a girl can dream, can’t she? *Sigh*. If for you, like me, the […]
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Fancy a Spring fling with Tom Hiddleston in Mallorca?!
It was bound to happen. We could never keep Tom or his filming locations to ourselves I suppose. Humph. At a cost of £3 million per episode BBC1’s espionage thriller The Night Manager (final episode on Easter Sunday!) certainly flits around some stunning locations: Mallorca, Marrakech, Madrid, Monaco, Zermatt, and uh, Devon… oh don’t you start, […]
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Top 5 Rough Luxe holidays
Maybe you were like me, back in your *sigh* early twenties (pre-kids, pre-mortgage), and were lucky enough to do a bit of travelling. At that time the tourism industry was much more sharply divided into two categories – the independent travellers (backpacks and a devil-may-care attitude) or package holiday goers (itinerary sorted for you and […]
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