I was writing about a new boutique hotel opening this week where the company had decided to do away with doormen and room service but concentrated on features they think modern travellers want, like free Wi-Fi. It got me thinking: what do I want from a hotel? I have divided my thoughts into three
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None of my grandparents ever left the county they were born in, never mind the country. Travel was something a coal miner and blacksmith did not do and both my grandmothers had their hands full with over seven children each. Their granddaughter now travels all over the world, for practically peanuts. The cabin crew don’t
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If anywhere is about power dressing, it must be Washington DC. Imagine what bargains are to be had in the second hand clothes shops. Americans don’t call them that, of course, it’s far too vulgar. No, they like to call them “consignment shops”. Secondi, near Dupont Circle is one of the better-established ones, situated in large, bright,
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Born in Baghdad but now based in London, Zaha Hadid has just returned from Glasgow, where her first British creation, the Riverside Museum of Transport, recently opened.
A £12.5 million pound refurbishment has successfully married the old with the new: on paper it shouldn’t work at all – but it does and remarkably well as Olivia Greenway finds out.
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