Park Life - Now spring has sprung, why not plan a visit to London over the summer months and treat yourself with the ‘Great Weekend Deals’ package at London Bridge Hotel? Rates start from GBP99 for an overnight’s stay with free internet. Add a full buffet breakfast for only GBP10 when booking in advance or […]
Summer Getaways for Grown-ups
Sometimes, it does the soul good to getaway in the Spring, after the business of the Christmas season has died down, to refresh batteries, to explore the world anew and to - let’s face it - treat oneself. So, where to go? Here are six suggestions for summer getaways for grown-ups: Abadia Retuerta LeDomaine is an award-winning […]
Flower power with Voyages-sncf.com
Flower Power - This is the first in a series of long-lead features ideas from Voyages-sncf.com, the European rail experts, focussing on travel adventures taken by train across Europe and written with the help of our tourist board partners. For this and any other features idea you may currently be working on, please let us know if we […]
A pinch of salt - Fleur de Sel
Some of the best chefs in the world rate the Fleur de Sel (literally flower of salt) from the idyllic Ile de Ré in Région Poitou-Charentes on France’s Atlantic Coast as the best in the world. So, one fine day, we went in search of this much prized condiment. We met up with Brice Cottonnier, a modern day […]
Five of the best: Poitou-Charentes
#1 Cognac When visiting Cognac for the first time, one key point was gifted to me by the kind people at Courvoisier, “all cognacs are brandies but not all brandies are cognacs”! As you travel around Cognac, you can see how fiercely this fact is protected - as well it should be. It’s a heritage […]
Five of the Best Christmas Trees
We are Christmas tree aficionados here at Magellan Towers - I personally can take or leave every other kind of Xmas decoration but since childhood, the decorated Christmas tree has held me in its thrall. So, for our penultimate post for 2014, here’s our five favourite Christmas trees seen recently on our travels. Let’s start […]
Flower Friday: The Savoy London
Flowers are vitally important to any hotel and form an intrinsic part of any guest experience in my humble opinion. Flowers epitomise beauty and spectacle, perfume and romance so I love taking photographs of the florist’s art - especially in luxury properties where the budgets are higher and the flowers more extravagant. I took this […]
Secret City: The Italian Gardens
I hadn’t a clue The Italian Gardens existed until I decided to visit Kensington Gardens one fine day for a long walk around this Royal Park and chanced upon them. Essentially, it is an ornamental water garden which is sited to the north side of Kensington Gardens near Lancaster Gate. They are believed to have […]
Travel Fact: The world's steepest cogwheel railway
I didn’t realise when I took a trip from Lucerne to Mount Pilatus that the journey would turn out to be so much fun! Embarking on a boat trip around Lake Lucerne before alighting at Alpnachstad, we then took the world’s steepest cogwheel railway all the way up to the top of the mountain. Unbelievably in this […]
In the Frame: Newlands Corner
I have just begun to discover the beauty of the Surrey Hills area, just outside of London, thanks to our new client reopening soon this September, the historic Mercure Box Hill Burford Bridge Hotel. This was taken at one of the many (I am discovering) best viewpoints at Newlands Corner, not far from Guildford’s bustling […]
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