Day Zero As our trip winds down the flights get shorter and shorter, so before I know it we’re coming into land at Brussels airport, and I’m striding purposefully through the station towards the train. ange had recommended a train/tram combination to get to the hotel, but I ended up[…]
Location The Hotel Heritage in Brugge is a member of Relais & Chateaux – which is an association of over 550 independent hotels, all at the upper end of the market. It’s a very short walk to the central square and so is incredibly well positioned as a base for exploring[…]
Location We arrive in Brugge just before their triathalon, so the buses only run halfway to the town centre and there are barricades across half the city. We manage to navigate to Martin’s Brugge well enough, enjoying the walk through cobbled lanes and past medieval buildings. The hotel is conveniently[…]
Location Peering above the surrounding buildings we spot The Hotel in the distance after exiting the metro at Louise. The walk from station to hotel takes us past a veritable who’s who of high street fashion labels, and I’m beginning to think that we might be under dressed for such[…]
Ah! Côte d’Azure – The French Riviera! A stretch of coast on the Mediterranean populated with towns which illicit images of luxury, excess and expense. Cannes, Saint Tropez and Monaco. The jet set. Our long weekend would start and end in Nice (the most international of the airports in the[…]
Villa Otero is a boutique hotel nestled near the train station in Nice. It’s part of the Happy Culture family of hotels, expressing a desire to be “more than just a place to stay”. We stayed for a night as part of the UNESCO Summer tour, and from the moment we[…]
Monte Carlo is the city which covers most of the Principality of Monaco nestled in the hills on the French Riviera. We stayed two nights at the Columbus Monte-Carlo on our UNESCO Summer 2017 tour through continental Europe. Location Monaco is tiny. Everything is walkable, though with the brilliant blue skies[…]
It’s a pattern or our tour that I arrive at the first hotel with Ange having been there a while already. It’s that way with the Hotel du Midi in Nice. I rock up in the taxi in the late evening, after the driver has navigated the one way system,[…]
Day Zero I arrived in Barcelona relatively early for once and breezed through passport control and out to the taxi rank. There were public transport options but I would just miss a bus and have an hour wait so thought I’d bite the bullet and grab a cab. It’s not until[…]
We had been staying just up the road from the Aparthotel Silver and so were interested in how this hotel would compare. Its location is pretty convenient: first it’s right between Gracia and Fontana stations allowing great access to the metro network, second it’s surrounded by restaurants and cinemas, and[…]