City Breaks

Amazing Sea breeze!

12 March 2024 | Editorial team Our Sea Breeze 56 Lodge boasts the best away-from-it-all position on award-winning Shorefield Country Park, with long views of The Isle of Wight and iconic Needles. Perfect for a short break in New

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Istanbul – The world’s best apres ski city!

23 February 2024 | Editorial team Istanbul has enthralled visitors for centuries  and is Turkey’s cultural capital, and a must-do for not only Muslims but tourists seeking the extraordinary, writes  regular visitor John

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Casinos top of travel wish list –

5 December 2023 | Editorial team Top bankers the world over put casinos top of their travel wish list, so for our ordinary chap in the street and all our celebrity spotters here’s a list of hotels with casinos on-site or close

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King of the castle!

8 September 2020 | Editorial team Edinburgh is King of the world’s castles, says a new survey out today. Research on the world’s most Instagrammable castles has Edinburgh come out top ahead of Spain’s famous Alhambra and

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Ye Olde Bell still ringing on..

16 July 2020 | Editorial team We’ll be going another 340 years, says boss Kate Ye Olde Bell at Barnby Moor, one of the North’s finest hotels, was swift to re-open for bed and board, after the Corona Virus lockdown. The

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Escape from the City to peaceful Kensington

9 October 2018 | Editorial team Editor John Hill finds a small but beautiful oasis of peace, calm and luxury in the centre of London. Read more. City of London bankers can escape the Canary Wharf bubble and still enjoy the Best of

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Tea Time is Me Time

29 July 2016 | James Hill That great British institution, afternoon tea, is a world beater becoming more and more popular, writes John Hill. I had forgotten the sheer joy of a good cup of tea – especially on a

That great British institution, afternoon tea, is a world beater becoming more and more popular, writes John Hill.

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C’mon everybody, let’s cruise

15 June 2015 | Paula Hill Leading Thames operator City Cruises is celebrating the life of Rock icon, Elvis Presley, as its cruise boats sail past London’s most iconic sites. The indulgent dinner cruises start from

Leading Thames operator City Cruises is celebrating the life of Rock icon, Elvis Presley, as its cruise boats sail past London’s most iconic sites.

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Weird but wonderful!

7 October 2014 | Paula Hill Listen up, y'all: Austin's the new star of The Lone Star State, writes Nigel Blundell This is the wild West – but not the way you’d imagine it. Yep, we’re in Texas, where you might expect

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Marvellous Moscow

19 March 2014 | John Hill Fellow traveller Chris Exall finds his favourite city totally changed – for the better. Moscow is hardly a short-break destination, but could be soon as the low-cost airlines now operate there,

Fellow traveller Chris Exall finds his favourite city totally changed – for the better.Read More