A week never sounds long enough for a decent break but this particular seven-night yoga holiday in Essaouira certainly did the trick for me. Sun (remember it?), a rich and colourful culture, the rolling waves of the Atlantic Ocean, dynamic yoga in the morning and restorative yoga in the evening – all experienced with a
“An island up a hill” – that’s how Roberto, a hotel-owner in Sabina, described the Italian region to me. It’s a neat, pretty way of summarising why the area is so little-known, even to Italian tourists. Sabina’s in Lazio, the large province that encapsulates Rome. It’s north of Rome, but not as far north as
I was excited to visit Madeira in Portugal last weekend (14-17 June) – the chosen destination for this year’s AITO and AITO Agents’ overseas conference, which offers independent travel operators and agents the chance to gather and debate the sector’s current biggest issues. And I felt rather smug leaving rainy England for this breathtakingly beautiful
The idea of a family holiday booked solely around an episode of Rick Stein’s Spain series unnerved me. In fact, not even a whole episode, but an aspect of one episode: Iberico ham. We were off to the isolated (and generally unheard-of) region of Extremadura because my food-mad husband had been seduced by tales of
On a recent trip to Cornwall (courtesy of our lovely client Classic Cottages) I took a peek at the unique open-air Minack Theatre, gloriously perched on the cliffs at Porthcurno on the county’s far western edge. It was fascinating to hear the incredible tale of girl power behind the Minack’s creation, The entire project was