Travel

Taking a teenager on holiday is not without its challenges

It’s sweltering hot outside, and much as you enjoy messing around on your yacht, it’s a long time since you had a really nice shower, a comfortable bed and a room that doesn’t move.   Perhaps it’s time to check in here.  Many of the rooms overlook the harbour and some have small gardens with terraces.  

The biggest nuisance with flying is getting to and from the airport, especially for an early flight.  I therefore tend to try to stay at airport hotels to avoid the dreaded shuttle bus nightmare.  It probably isn’t a nightmare at all, but in my head and at some ungodly hour in the morning, my brain

If you feel like a break from Cannes, take a ferry to the island of Saint Honorat, owned by a Cistercian order of monks, who have lived here since the sixth century. No cars are allowed and the monks are from a silent order, so noise is discouraged.   Over time, they have enlarged their monastery,

You’d be a real dunce not to consider this  former school, now a boutique hotel, if you want somewhere comfortable and different in which to stay in central Manchester.   Fashioned from a Victorian school building, it has only 30 rooms, the temptation to cram in as many as possible being resisted.  Artfully retaining some of

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