by David Hibbins | Dec 12, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Some years and months are immortalised in a country’s history. The Yangtze flood of July 1935 in China; the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 which devastated Thailand, Sri Lanka and much of Indonesia; the earthquake of June 2010 in Haiti.For the British Virgin Islands,...
by David Hibbins | Dec 11, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Arriving at my destination on a wet Wednesday morning, I am greeted by a gentleman with a large umbrella who shields me from the rain as I make my way from the cab to the high-ceilinged lobby. Inside, a smiling concierge takes my suitcase and I am immediately...
by David Hibbins | Dec 11, 2022 | Latest Travel News
‘This is all for me?’, I gasp. I’m at Claridge’s, London’s grand dame luxury hotel, and I’ve just walked into my suite for the first time.Up on the eighth floor The Mews Pavilion – gobsmackingly huge and seemingly mine for the...
by David Hibbins | Dec 11, 2022 | Latest Travel News
As the taxi approaches the Old Stamp House restaurant in Ambleside, I wonder how much of it would be ‘the world’s best’.Would it have the world’s best restaurant entrance? The world’s best restaurant tables and chairs? The world’s...
by David Hibbins | Dec 11, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Sometimes, the stars align.And so it is with hotel Aman Le Melezin in the uber-swish French ski resort of Courchevel 1850, a property that’s a bewitching cross between a large luxury chalet and a Japanese temple, where the hospitality is divine, our bedroom...
by David Hibbins | Dec 11, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Tens of thousands of St. Nick fans in festive fancy dress have invaded the streets of New York to celebrate SantaCon 2022 – as NYPD braces itself for debauched and drunken behavior at the notorious annual event.Hordes of revelers dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Claus,...
