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Category Archives: Hotels
The Private Dining Room + The Goring Hotel London
Reel of Fortune It’s quite simply London’s classiest hotel so an invitation to a party in the Private Dining Room of The Goring is frame worthy. A promotion from mantlepiece to wall no less. Saturday night turns out to be … Continue reading
Coopershill House County Sligo + Francis Bindon
Louder Sang that Ghost Really, it’s the perfect Georgian box in the perfect grouping in the perfect setting. Coopershill House took 19 years to build; over 240 years later the house and estate are still in great shape. Dr Roderick … Continue reading
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Mount Falcon County Sligo + Phantom the Falcon
The First September The architect James Franklin Fuller sounds like he’d have been good craic at a dinner party. When not bashing out High Victorian melodramatic novels, bragging of his descent from Charlemagne or boasting of his wife’s connections to … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Country Houses, Hotels, Luxury
Tagged a guide to irish country houses, annaghmore, architect james franklin fuller, ashford castle, belleek manor, blue book Ireland, constance aldridge, farmleigh, kenmare hotel, kylemore abbey, lavender's blue, major aldridge, maloney, mark bence jones, mount falcon hotel county sligo, nina gore knox, stuart blakley, ultred knox
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Lavender’s Blue + Radisson Blu + Gdańsk
Teutonic Nights | Love in a Hot Climate | Lighting the Trip Fantastic Naturally we’d end up a few miles from the Russian border this summer. It’s baking, and we mean fry-an-egg-on-the-pavement baking hot, but we’re cool as cucumbers on … Continue reading
Bohemia Restaurant + The Club Hotel + Spa St Helier + Lavender Farm Jersey
Eternally Rhapsodising | Love in a Warm Climate “So here we are…having our lovely cake and eating it too, one’s great aim in life.” Nancy Mitford We’re up Green Street. Chasing stars, potentially flickering, preferably established, Michelin stars. Steve Smith, … Continue reading
Posted in Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants
Tagged bohemia restaurant jersey, club hotel and spa st helier, country life, fat duck, heston blumenthal, jean christophe novelli, jersey lavender farm, lavender's blue, manoir aux guat saisons, nancy mitford, raymond blanc, steve smtih head chef, stuart blakley
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Hôtel Meurice Calais + Charles-Augustin Meurice
The Last Word Say again? More than a mere port, it’s a tale of two towns: Calais-Nord is a manmade island surrounded by canals and basins. St Pierre hugs the island to the south and southeast. Between Notre Dame Church … Continue reading
Harrington Hall + Harcourt Street Dublin
No.70 Named after Lord Simon Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772 to 1776, Harcourt Street is precisely what one expects of Georgian Dublin. A sheer cliff face of dark red brick penetrated by a grid of rectangular apertures. Doorcases … Continue reading
The Franklin Hotel Knightsbridge + Anouska Hempel
Franklin Minted To be frank, it wasn’t the hardest decision in the world to while away a wintry Saturday afternoon, yes, the perfected world of a Saturday afternoon, wistfully tucked up in a swanky five star Knightsbridge hotel. Add Anouska … Continue reading
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