Editorial Features - Page 86
For a break from generic hotel rooms and clone-like resorts, here is our eclectic selection of retro travel destinations; from Parisian vintage to shabby-chic in Texas, slip back in time with these elegant and kitsch holiday spots.
Vancouver's Opus Hotel has personality. Forget the muted colours and identikit rooms typical of North America. This is Canada's liberal-leaning, tree-hugging west coast city, so where better to open a hotel that doesn't conform?
From eco-conscious cakes to fresh ingredients and organic pizza, discover the world's top eco-friendly eateries in our second bitesized guide to holidaying the green way.
Forgo crammed tubes and snail-paced buses, and explore Europe's diverse cities via an equally eclectic array of transport. Paul Murphy investigates how to escape trudging amid the city crowds, and instead become part of the scenery with these unusual ways of sightseeing.
Green holidays are officially ‘in', but how easy is it to take an eco break? In the first of a series of bitesized guides on holidaying the green way, here is our selection of eco-friendly accommodation across the globe that will enable you to have a beautiful break with a big conscience...
There are more castles in Scotland than you can shake a haggis at. From haunted chambers and crumbly walls, to stately turrets and ornate carvings, here is our selection of the country's most famous, impressive and historically charged structures that open their doors (and drawbridges) to...
Fashion brands don't open hotels in Scotland every day, so Edinburgh's new Hotel Missoni, from the eponymous Italian fashion label, has caused quite a buzz. The first of several luxury Missoni properties - Kuwait City and Oman are next - it opened in June 2009 in a prime location just off the...
While July's weather somewhat failed to fulfil the Met Office's prophecy of a "barbecue summer", the recent rainfalls mean Britain's green countryside is even more fresh and gleaming. So pack a cagoule and some Kendal mint cake, and enjoy our favourite summer walks around the British Isles.
Second largest of the Channel Islands, Guernsey is an incredibly welcoming place for families with plenty of clean and safe beaches. A Crown Dependency with French street...
Blur rocking Glastonbury may seem like a decade ago, and Coachella 2009 just a hot hazy memory, but never fear, from a stellar line-up of alternative music in Belgium to an all-out art fest in the Nevada desert, summer 2009 still has a lot more festival love to give.
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