Tag: Architecture
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England’s Peak of Perfection
From heather-clad moors, grand homes, to rugged mountains and sweeping vales, pretty villages and resplendent gardens . . . it’s all here. I’m such a sucker for anything Pride and Prejudice, and as Miss Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt and uncle curve around the road and Pemberley appears before them – they gasp, as I…
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Is there a barber in the house?
Or, let’s visit saucy Seville Arriving in Seville on a sun-drenched early autumn day will set you up for your senses to be tickled and your spirit to be enriched. Various seasons spent here will prompt different moods – so let’s discover the city as the last of the soporific summer sun takes us on…
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How to do ‘heritage hotel’
Amid the tall and slender, new and shiny and fair and funky, there’s a place where refinement and coolness resides in Sydney . . . Primus Hotel Sydney. The Presidential suite. When is a hotel not a hotel? Well, it’s always a hotel if it’s a hotel! But if it’s not a tall, shiny new…
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Scandinavia: Great Danes
‘Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen, friendly old girl of a town’ . . . continues to enchant visitors with tradition and its easygoing personality. But there’s more to explore as its varied and eclectic architecture – old and new – stirs ‘for’ and ‘against’ controversy, eventually melding into the visual fabric of the city, just as it…