£12 No visit to Cologne is complete without a meal at one of its peculiar 'Brauhauser' (breweries-cum-pubs), where waiters, known as 'Kobes, all sporting white shirts and black aprons, will bring you platefuls of cheap and filling food and 'stangen' (small cylindrical glasses) of 'Kolsch' -- Cologne’s pale top-fermented beer, the city’s favourite 'social lubricant'. Try the centrally located Brauhaus Fruh am Dom, where patrons sit -- in semi-darkness -- on long wooden benches around massive oak tables...
Owners Sebastian and Philippa Hughes offer livery for horses (£25 per night), and claim to be Britain’s most dog-friendly hotel , with a unique doggy spa offering bath, dry, full clip and pedicure (£42) as well as special beds, towels and dog menus. Children are also welcome at Holne Chase – except in the dining room in the evenings - and there is a baby listening service.
Rooms at 16th-century coaching inn The George in Rye are panelled, snug and really rather fabulous. Long dark nights can be whiled away down in the bar, where low ceilings and twisted beams are the order of the day, or in an excellent restaurant serving fish freshly hauled in from the harbour. During the day, weather permitting, you can slip and slide your way around the antique shops and tea rooms that chocolate-boxey Rye specialises in.
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The Burren (meaning “rocky place” in Gaelic) in North Clare is a unique 100-square-mile plateau of naked grey limestone formed by a melting glacier over 10,000 years ago. Coloured in all imaginable shades of grey and blue, the Burren is home to numerous exotic plants growing in the crevices of the rock. Due to the limestone’s quality of absorbing heat, the temperature on the plateau is always higher than on the sea-level, and the grass on it grows all year round – the fact that couldn’t help attracting...
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From here, we headed out to their friends’ house on the outskirts of Tripoli to prepare the blow-out lunch. But shopping was not quite over. Suddenly Fouad braked and pulled over to the side of the road. “Here you are!” he beamed, waving his arms. “These are the vegetables for the lamb cuscusi and the mashi dolma !” And there in all its understated glory was a fruit and vegetable market on the edge of a busy urban highway, typical of this wheels-addicted nation where petrol costs a pittance. “I cruise...
It’s not hard to see why they come. These 1200 atoll islands, bisecting the centre of the Indian Ocean, look like they’ve been created by a ‘Paint Your Perfect Paradise’ computer program, with empty white shores caressed by nodding coconut palms, surrounded by a blue neon sea. Each atoll (from the Maldivian word ‘atolu’) is surrounded by coral reefs, housing vast shoals of fish the colour of Smarties. The temperature rarely budges from 30ºC during the day, 25ºC a night, and 27ºC in the sea. All in...
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Free until March 31st, and free year-round to Oslo Card holders (65NK/£5.50 otherwise), is the museum dedicated to Norway’s most famously troubled artist, Edvard Munch. Recently, the museum has become better known as the ‘Munch Fortress’ since a group of art thieves casually pulled up outside the museum in August 2004, strolled in and breezed out again with his best-known works under their arms. Today the famous pictures are kept behind glass and an airport-like security system greets everyone with...
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