Fangotherapy – a mud spa near Venice
If being encased in mud isn’t your idea of a relaxing weekend, trying fangotherapy in a Roman spa town near Venice might just change your mind
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London’s hotels and restaurants empty ahead of Olympics
Five-star London hotels are discounting their room rates by nearly half and top restaurants are easy to book. Even house rentals are disappointing
Holiday wardrobe blogger challenge
Holiday Wardrobe Blogger Challenge won by Sugar and Spice blogger Emily Knightley The winner for the best holiday wardrobe. To celebrate its collection of private tailor-made holidays, Cox & Kings, the world’s longest established luxury travel company (1758), have challenged six bloggers to pick a destination and choose 10 fashion items that best suit … Read more
The biggest solar run ship in the world completed its record-breaking world tour
Solar-powered PlanetSolar catamaran to herald a new era in eco-friendly travel Swiss electrical engineer Raphael Domjan and his team completed the year-and-a-half world tour of PlanetSolar catamaran. Built after seeing the effects of climate change on an Icelandic glacier, the 31-metre PlanetSolar boat had 537 square metres of black solar panels that can produce up to … Read more
Angela Hartnett’s Creole kitchen in Mauritius
When MasterChef put Mauritius on the foodie map, Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett decided to investigate. Lucy Cavendish went along for a taster
Walking, and staying at boutique hotels, in the Alps
A week’s walking in the Alps of Italy and Switzerland doesn’t have to mean nights in basic, and rather grim, refuges. Descend into the valleys each evening and you can dine and sleep well in pretty boutique hotels. At least that was the plan …