Category: Honest Travel
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El Oceano – Honest Travel
El Oceano is a dream of a Hotel. Nestled in a naturally beautiful cove along Mijas Costa in Andalucia. The hotel boasts five star beautifully decorated rooms, an award winning restaurant and perhaps most impressively a swim up Polynesian bar with views overlooking the Mediterranean. I first visited El Oceano around my tenth birthday, back then it…
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BA i360 – Brighton – Honest Travel
I’ve had a couple of weeks of not posting to the site. Family visiting, catching up with friends and weekends away. The usual August stuff. So while I’ve not been writing so much I have been doing a lot more travelling, trying, tasting and reviewing. I’ve renamed my Hotel Style section to Travel Style and…
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Normandy – Honest Travel
Normandy is land of green fields, cows and cider, not too different to the South of England, with the added bonus of stinkier cheese. Mont St Michael Mont St Michael is the most beautiful sight across from the mainland an island of rock and Abbey surrounded by sea. From a distance and especially at night…
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Brittany – Honest Travel
Last Week I spent some time in beautiful North West France, I’ve got so much to report back on I’ve decided to split the post in two. Today it’s my travel guide on Brittany and the Normandy post will be up soon. So here goes….. When I was 15 or 16 I read a novel…
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My Hotel Bloomsbury
I often work in London and commute back to the south coast in a day, when I have a whole weekend of events such as the recent London Collections Men schedule to negate staying in comfort in London is a priority. With a bang on, central location, My Hotel Bloomsbury was our select abode. First off…
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Frimley Hall Hotel – Honest Travel
How often do you feel relaxed enough to read a whole magazine? I mean not just flicking through but reading it, enjoying it cover to cover? This never happens to me. Or rather it didn’t until I visited Frimley Hall Hotel. Three days and two nights of lovely hotel living left me relaxed, stress-free and on top…
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Happy New Year – Seaham Hall – Honest Travel
Happy New Year! I’m celebrating this New Year with a post from one of my favourite places in the world Seaham Hall. If you read the blog regularly you’ll know that I got married at Seaham Hall, the most beautiful luxury spa hotel in the North. Every Christmas we spend the holidays with family in…
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Venice – Honest Travel
Venice, City of romance, Capital of love, who wouldn’t want to go for a weekend break? Except ours was partially for work and it was in dreary old November. As it turns out November is an amazing month for a city break in Venice, it has far fewer crowds than the Summer months and so…
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Ston Easton Park – More than a Bark in the Park
When you have a puppy, breaks away can be a little challenging…..so when I heard that luxury four-star Palladian mansion hotel, Ston Easton Park, in Somerset was super dog-friendly we were keen to visit. We thought it would make a lovely get away for Mr B’s birthday and put it in the diary. Luxurious it certainly…
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The Bath Arms – Picturesque Puppy Paradise
Our lovely Labradoodle puppy baby Blue is now seven months old. She has graduated from puppy class and is trained not to doodle like a poodle, or lark around like a Lab, well sort of….she is still quite a naughty puppy, that said, Mr B and I decided it was time to put those puppy…
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2015 – Time to review? Time for something new?
I’ve been away from the blog….truth is I’ve been away from everything. I finally stopped for Christmas and from a very busy year. Retreated up to the North to spend time with family and just stopped, stopped working, stopped writing, limited access to phone networks and social media meant we were cut off in a…
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Ladies who Lunch – Ashdown Park Hotel
I don’t really like the phrase ‘Ladies who Lunch’, it’s often expressed as a derogatory term for women who have the time and money to enjoy a leisurely lunch in an expensive restaurant. It’s often assumed that these ladies are rich, married and don’t work. I personally admire every lady who has the time to…
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In with the Old….London Showroom Old Street
Crikey what a week! If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I’ve not been lazing it up poolside or partying hard in this lovely summer heat. No. Me and Mr B have been developing. This week we took the keys to a London Showroom, it’s the 1st Floor of the cult leather bag brand Jas…
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A Room with a View
In todays world the pace of life is extraordinarily fast. We consume information with the swipe of a phone or ipad, on the go. We fly between cities, we catch trains to meetings, cabs to shows, we buy, we sell, we are non stop. I’ve learnt to juggle a career as a fashion writer…
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Florence Menswear SS15 Transition and Tradition
Buonjourno! On the road again, this time to Florence. I like the Pitti Menswear Show as I’m part buyer, part seller, part writer, many cappellos that fit! I walked the show on the first day with Mr B slightly relieved to find the temperature a little less than scorchio, last year in June…