Well for a hoteloholic like myself, the most important thing to cross off my list is where to stay when I consider visiting a city. Naturally, being a luxe girl, when I was offered the chance to experience The Francis Hotel, part of the MGallery Collection, I jumped at it. This exclusive address is a Grade […]
Five Foodie things to do in Poitou-Charentes
Région Poitou-Charentes has a wealth of gastronomic delights whether it’s regionally produced oysters or goat’s cheese, fresh sea salt or Bouchot mussels, Surgères butter or Mojhettesbeans, Pineau des Charentes or cognac! It’s all a bit cheesy - Goat farms and dairies may seem an unusual tourist attraction but when you have as many different cheeses as Poitou-Charentes, they are a real attraction for your […]
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 […]
10 of the best festivals in Europe
If you are looking to Travel to Europe this year here is our top ten festivals worth visit. All are easily reached by rail or sea. This April Normandy will host their annual tulip festival at Château de Vendeuvre in Calvados. Visitors will be able to marvel at more than 30,000 tulips, grape hyacinths and […]
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 […]
Five of the Best: RAF Red Arrows
Having witnessed the astonishingly accomplished performance by the RAF Red Arrows (Red Arrows) during the D-Day 70 celebrations, we pay tribute to this band of elite pilots, the best of the best, with this five of the best with five facts you may or may not know about them: They were formed in late 1964, […]
Five of the Best: Kensington Gardens
If you are staying around Kensington on your next London visit, why not pay Kensington Gardens a visit? There are a wide number of things to do and see within the confines of this 242 acre park, one of eight Royal Parks in the capital. Bought by William III in 1689 from what was originally […]
Five things to do in Lyon
Go on a city tour with a difference! The Cyclopolitain tour allows you to take in this fascinating city whilst your cyclist does all the work. We went around the Renaissance district dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries (UNESCO World Heritage site) - and discovered Lyon’s traboules - passageways going from one street to the […]
Five things to do in Baku!
If you want to stay in one of the most innovative buildings ever built, then you need to swiftly book into Fairmont Baku, Flame Towers. Designed by HOK International, it is located on the highest part of the city, overlooking the sweep of the Caspian Sea, the old Inner City and Baku itself. It is […]
Five of the Best… Hair of the dog cocktails!
Enjoying the party season? Here are, our “Five of the Best” hair of the dog cocktails to brighten you up… In honour of their hardest working members of staff - the rooftop bees - The Fairmont Vancouver Airport created the Honey Harvest - this will take the sting out of any headache. Do make the […]