A queen’s bedroom, a lost aviator and a Jacobite stronghold: three castle hotels in...
Sleep where Mary, Queen of Scots slept. Toast a pioneering aviator who never came home. Hole up where the Jacobites did. Three castle hotels in Scotland with stories worth the drive.
Castle hotels in Scotland...
A cardinal, a stage and a film director: three historic Tuscan stays with stories
A pope's nephew and a staircase with a dark legend. A castle with its own theatre. A film director's party house. Three historic hotels in Tuscany where the stories are as good as the...
Scotland’s Most Famous Locked Gates, and the Story You’ve Been Told
Traquair House’s Bear Gates have been shut for more than two centuries. The reason every guidebook gives is probably wrong.
The legend
Everyone tells it the same way. In 1745 the 5th Earl of Traquair wished...
Párisi Udvar Budapest: The Arcade That Waited a Century for Its Guests
Párisi Udvar Budapest is a five-star hotel most people walk straight past. Most people walking across Ferenciek tere are heading somewhere else, the river, Váci utca, a tram. The Párisi Udvar's doors don't announce...
The Cold Stone Cure: Why the Highlands Turn Up the Heat
The Mediterranean seduces out in the open, where everything is bright, exposed, and theatrical. It invites afternoon wine, linen unbuttoned to the sternum, and the kinetic flirtation of busy terrace bars.
Yet for those pursuing...
Fenton Tower Review: Inside Scotland’s 16th-Century Luxury Fortress
Fenton Tower is a magnificent 16th-century fortified tower house rising proud from the rolling East Lothian countryside. Once an ancient stronghold that sheltered King James VI of Scotland, this Category A-listed monument has been...
Parga: The Greece Everyone Says No Longer Exists
There's a particular half-hour in Parga, just as the sun drops behind the castle, when the whole amphitheatre of the town turns the colour of a ripe apricot and the tavernas along the harbour...
Solo Travel in Greece Over 40: Why Athens and Naxos Is the Trip You’ve...
Solo travel Greece over 40 has an image problem that has nothing to do with reality
The word “solo” conjures dormitory bunk beds, shared bathrooms, and the kind of fluorescent-lit common rooms where everyone is...
Solo Villa Holidays: What the Booking Platforms Won’t Tell You
A solo villa holiday is one of the best-kept secrets in luxury travel over 40.
The assumption baked into almost every villa booking platform is that you are not one person.
The search filters assume a...
Naxos for Solo Travellers Over 40: The Greek Island That Rewards Going Alone
Most people who ask me about Naxos solo travel get the same answer: you're not thinking about it enough.
Not Santorini, engineered as it is for the couples photograph. Not Mykonos, which has spent the...
