MagellanStraitsRSSFeed- 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
- Suite Dreams Series – #11 – The Savoy’s Monet Suite 17/05/2013I guess the picture above lets the cat out of the bag so to speak but we recently took a sneaky peak around perhaps one of London’s most famous suites – the Monet Suite of The Savoy where Monsieur Claude … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Shaken Not Stirred Series – ‘The Great Gatsby Cocktail’ 22/05/2013
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The view from my hotel: Albi, Tarn, Midi-Pyrenees
Flying into Toulouse recently (direct flights with easyJet from the UK to Toulouse-Blagnac), my mission, to find out more about the Tarn area of Midi-Pyrenees, I have completely fallen for the medieval city of Albi. How could you not do … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albi, France, Listed Building, Mercure Albi-Cité, Midi-Pyrénées, Southwest France, Tarn, Toulouse
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Step off the fast lane and relax
Sometimes you are lucky enough to find a place which you were born to visit, an estate where your cares and woes immediately fall from your shoulders and you feel at peace with the world. Such was my first experience … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abbey, Architecture, Food, History, Hotel, LeDomaine, Listed Building, Luxury, Ryanair, Spain, Travel, Vallalodid, Wine
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