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Started March 28, 2016
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Woman's World Annual 2016
Olivia Greenway looks back over 40 years of buying and selling houses
March 2016
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Five minutes with…Paul Kerr, CEO Small Luxury Hotels group
SLH is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015. It has 520 hotels in its portfolio and is growing every year. During his address to journalists at the International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes before our meeting, Paul Kerr stressed the importance of brand with the disappearance of independence – this is especially noticeable in
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The writer’s blog hop
The multi-talented and lovely Joanne Mallon has tagged me in the writer’s blog hop. This involves answering a few questions about how and what I write, then passing it on to a few more writers-who-blog. First of all, I hold my hands up to say I’m not the best travel blogger. I don’t post
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Sofitel La Defense Paris – the ooh la la hotel choice
Choosing a hotel for a city trip is fraught with problems. I don’t want something too small, too cruddy, too expensive, too noisy or too out of the way. We hit the jackpot on our recent working trip to Paris, staying at the Sofitel La Defense for five nights. The Sofitel La Defense is
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Turndown service. Is it a big turn off?
Most luxury hotels offer a ‘turndown’ service. As the name implies, this consists of removing the bed cover and cushions, turning down the sheets and quite often placing a little cotton mat on the floor beside the bed with a pair of slippers. The curtains will be drawn, the television will be turned on with
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Savvy designer shopping in Washington DC: Secondi
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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