I found two return tickets to Bordeaux with Ryanair for £40 and that was that. On a Wednesday, after a 1 hour 40 minute flight, I'd landed in the French capital of wine. My travel buddy had found a beautiful Airbnb in the heart of the city. So after taking a fairly swift and cheap bus ride into the centre from the airport, we went to check into our homestay. A friendly local lady met us and showed us around the apartment, which oozed of old-school opulence with high ceilings, polished wooden floors and elegant fittings. With not much time to spare, we had a quick freshen up and bounced ou...
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I was rubbing mud all over my body when it suddenly dawned on me how relaxed I felt. The smell of sweet spices scented the air, some funky music wafted over the airwaves and soft lighting lulled over my skin. I’d only been at Archerfield House in Scotland just over 24 hours but this secret retreat is a place where you immediately lose all connection with bustling city life. It's charm attracts people from all over the world and Ronan Keating also chose it as his wedding venue. A one hour flight to Edinburgh, a 30 minute drive with the resort’s lovely driver Gordon and I had arrived at...
Read more →Geneva is the second largest city in Switzerland, surpassed only by Zurich, and is continually named one of the most liveable cities in the world. It s a global city, a financial city, a city acknowledged as being the worldwide epicentre for diplomacy, greatly helped by the presence of numerous international organisations such as the headquarters of the United Nations and the Red Cross. Most importantly though, Geneva is a city that is synonymous with wealth, design excellence, the birthplace of the Rolex and home to a huge array of fine jewellers, but this has distracted from the plethora of ...
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