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Moulin de Vigonac Relais du Silence

Brantôme

96%

excellent

[31/01/2011] Now no longer a working mill, but instead converted into a rather nice four star hotel. However, being secluded, away from the town and off the main road in its own little water meadow, you can still "sit and dream with Nellie Dean" and listen to the waters of the Dronne "murmur soft and low". I stayed here for a night last September on my way further south. Having left a cloudy, cool UK (as it had been all summer), I found myself less than 24 hours later floating in a swimming pool looking up at a blue French sky. Reclining afterwards on the classy pool furniture and in the evening on the li [more]

Sankt Nepomuk

Bamberg

98%

very good

[11/11/2009] There is an apocryphal recipe which begins "first catch your chicken". Equally, "first find your hotel" is pretty much a prerequisite for staying there, never mind writing a review about it. During my perambulations around Europe I’ve had some real tough ones to find, including some navigational challenges which have threatened divorce. These days, armed with Google maps and mobiles, the thrill of the hunt is lessened somewhat, so it was a surprise to come up against a brick wall on this one. Blind alley would be a better metaphor. We were in our usual configuration: he doing the higher intell [more]

Lullingsto ne Roman Villa

Eynsford

99%

excellent

[29/11/2008] "Secluded, detached villa in 200 acres with river frontage. The property has been extended and now affords spacious family accommodation as well as domestic staff quarters. Warm air under-floor central heating throughout. Through dining room with decorative tiled floor. Suite of bathrooms with hot and cold plumbing and sunken baths. Excellent decorative order with many unique design features. Farm buildings. Viewing highly recommended." So might a fourth century Romano-British estate agent, with one eye on his commission, have written up this villa. Nearly two thousand years later the curre [more]

Fitzwillia m Museum

Cambridge

98%

very good

[24/11/2008] You can't go far in Cambridge without bumping into a Fitzwilliam. There's a Fitzwilliam Street; little Fitzbillie's is a popular tea shop. A distant cousin, Fitzwilliam College, sits aloofly on the outskirts. But the paterfamilias of the clan, square and majestic in the centre of the city, is the Fitzwilliam Museum. With its classical columns and pediment it looks like the British Museum, without the crowds. It also gives off a "to be taken seriously" aura. This was the place where a hapless visitor tripped over his shoelaces and in the course of his ensuing prat-fall brought down three pricel [more]

Zeppelin Museum

Friedrichs hafen

99%

very good

[28/09/2007] Airships are surely the dinosaurs of the transport world. Huge, lumbering bodies carrying a very small payload and difficult to manoeuvre. They both had their day in the sun before being extinguished by a fireball and survive only as a barely recognisable relic of their former selves. Like dinosaurs too, airships exercise a fascination over us, representing as they do a world long gone. It would have been very remiss of Friedrichshafen not to have created a museum in the town, as this was the centre of the German airship industry. Indeed it still is, as airships are used for research an [more]

Dolce Chantilly

Chantilly

99%

good

[27/09/2007] Using a phrase like "mostly sweet" to describe our stay at the Dolce Chantilly is a graphic reminder of the danger of averages. While 500 is the average of 499 and 501, it is also the average of 0 and 1000: the extremes are masked. To put it another way, this hotel, like football, is an entity of two halves. But let me begin at the beginning, as Lewis Carroll said. He would have liked this place. We booked in for two nights for a spring break. As we rolled up to the security barrier and surveyed the acres of parkland, the statuary, the signposts to this facility and that facility, the [more]

The Heights Isle of Portland

Weymouth

98%

pretty good

[04/07/2007] The Heights - you couldn't really call this hotel anything else. Well maybe "Belle Vue" if it hadn't already been taken by every seaside guest-house from Margate to Blackpool. We had never been in this corner of England before, so had armed ourselves with a map of how to find the hotel. Out of Weymouth, across the causeway beside the magnificent Chesil Beach on to the Isle of Portland, then up through the unprepossessing town of Portland to the top of the cliffs - and you can't miss it. Map not necessary. There it is, at the highest point, right by the road, on a cross-roads, with an unin [more]

Keukenhof

Lisse

99%

very good

[01/07/2007] Many years ago, during a management course in Holland, I was taken to the Keukenhof. It was immediately after an overnight trip on the Harwich Hook of Holland ferry (not a journey I recommend) but even in my befuddled state (can one be channel-lagged?) I recognised two things. Firstly the place was a knock-out, and secondly my husband would love it. It has taken until this year to unite him with the Keukenhof. We have a division of labour in our house: he does the gardening, I don't, so it seemed a bit perverse that I had been and he hadn't. The Keukenhof is not exactly a garden, more a te [more]

Auberge du Bon Laboureur

Chenonceau x

99%

excellent

[27/02/2007] The Inn of the Good Ploughman. What a nice name for a hotel. It conjures up images of God-fearing peasants toiling in the fields and resting after a hard days work. A sort of Inn of the Sixth Happiness meets Breughel. Either that, or they do a damned good cheese and pickle sandwich. Whichever, we were keen to get there as we were tired, hungry and rather later than we intended. About 20 miles out, Mr C demanded that I ring and get exact details of how to find it as he didn't want to be "faffing about". Well it was obvious we hadn't been in Chenonceaux before. It's a tiny village cons [more]

Sheffield Park Garden

Uckfield

98%

very good

[08/02/2007] When does a garden cease to be a garden and become a park, or an estate? About the same time, I reckon, as you can add an s, as in Kew Gardens. But Sheffield Park Garden resolutely sticks to the singular. Perhaps because it has Park in the title already, or feels it has a singularity of purpose and design. Whatever. It is certainly not a garden the way you and I understand it. Nor is it anywhere near the city of Sheffield, but located in the leafy lanes of East Sussex. The history of this property / estate, if not the garden, is a long one. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the name mean [more]

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