MagellanStraitsRSSFeed- HotelFacts: #3: The Envelope 24/05/2013For the third in our series of Hotel Facts, we are once again immersed in the archive of The Savoy London. I first saw it on some advertising that The Savoy undertook a decade with a clever byline – “Nowadays, … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Shaken Not Stirred Series – ‘The Great Gatsby Cocktail’ 22/05/2013To celebrate the recent release of the 2013 film ‘The Great Gatsby’, Erik Lorincz, The American Bar’s award winning barman, has created an elegant masterpiece in the form of ’The Great Gatsby” cocktail for The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel. He tells us that his inspiration was drawn from the film itself … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Travel Facts#2: In the footsteps of Napoleon! 20/05/2013For anyone wanting to know more about Emperor Napoleon, surely there can be no more symbolic a place to visit than Aix Island, in Poitou-Charentes, France. Napoleon finally left French soil forever from Aix Island en route to his banishment … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- HotelFacts: #3: The Envelope 24/05/2013
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Cricketing Legend
Come the long days of summer, no English country House would be complete without idyllic images of men in full whites playing cricket – and the Goodwood Estate, West Sussex does not disappoint. With the thatched pavilion and ground situated … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, UK
Tagged Duke of Richmond, Goodwood, Goodwood House, Sussex, Sussex County Cricket Club, Thomas Lord, West Sussex
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Five things to do in Albi, Tarn, Midi-Pyrénées
Knowledge of an area sometimes does not prepare you for its staggering and unexpected beauty. Thus it was so, for me, with Albi, a medieval town within the Tarn, Midi-Pyrenees. (Flydrive to Toulouse from the UK with easyJet and smooth … Continue reading
Five things to do in West Sussex & Hampshire
Base camp is the newly-refurbished Goodwood Hotel on the Goodwood Estate and our four other suggestions crisscross over the county boundaries of West Sussex and Hampshire – or as we locals tend to call it, the county triangle! With starting room … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, UK
Tagged Captain Oates, Captain Robert Scott, Captain Scott, Chawton, Cindy Leveson, Duke of Richmond, Gilbert White, Gilbert White House & Gardenn, Glorious Goodwood, Goodwood, Goodwood Aviation, Goodwood Estate, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Goodwood House, Goodwood Motor Circuit, Goodwood Racecourse, Goodwood Revival, Hampshire, Jane Austen, Jane Austen House Museum, National History Museum, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Scott of the Antartic, Selborne, Summer Exhibition, The Goodwood Hotel, The Oates Collection, The Queens at Seborne, West Sussex, West Wittering, West Wittering Beach
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Shaken not stirred: Magellan’s Cocktail List – Magnificently Mesmorizing Margherita!
When we were staying at the beautiful Viceroy Riviera Maya, Riviera Maya, Mexico, recently, soaking in the tranquillity of the ancient and primitive Mayan tropical forest, we came under the resort’s spell and before we knew it, we were jumping behind the bar, mixing up a few devilishly delicious cocktails … Continue reading
Vintage Photo Series – Bob Dylan at The Savoy
Bob Dylan stayed at The Savoy London in 1965, while on tour in the UK and he lived at The Savoy while D.A. Pennebaker filmed the documentary “Don’t Look Back”. The Beatles, by the way, visited Dylan at The Savoy, … Continue reading
Posted in Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Hotels & Resorts, London, UK, Vintage Photo Series
Tagged Beatles, Bob Dylan, Britain, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, History, Hotel, London, Luxury, Music, Savoy, Savoy Chapel, Savoy London, Subterranean Homesick Blues, the beatles, The Savoy London, Travel, UK
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The Goodwood Hotel: Reborn
For an interior designer of the calibre of Cindy Leveson, of Leveson Design, working closely with an Estate such as Goodwood is, in many ways, like working on the Forth Bridge! Cindy recalls that she first started her collaboration with The … Continue reading
Posted in Hotels & Resorts, UK
Tagged Cindy Leveson, Duke of Richmond, Forth Bridge, Goodwood, Goodwood Estate, Goodwood House, Isle of Bute, The Goodwood Hotel
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Wellington & Waterloo: A Noble Heritage
The Napoleonic Wars loom large in the history of Goodwood House and the Lennox family in particular with the 4th, 5th and 6th Dukes of Lennox leading distinguished military careers, intertwining with Arthur Wellesley, known today as the Duke of Wellington. … Continue reading
Vintage Photo Series – Santa Monica Muscle Beach
The tenth in our Vintage Photo Series is the famous Santa Monica Muscle Beach. The original Muscle Beach was located just south of Santa Monica Pier and was known as ‘The Birthplace of the Physical Fitness Boom of the Twentieth Century’. … Continue reading
