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Room with a View – little Venice hotel with a rare feature
A little hotel in Venice, the San Sebastiano Garden, is a 15th-century peach-and-cream hotel in Dorsoduro – the less touristy sestiere (district) of the city’s historic centre but still only about 15 minutes’ stroll from St Mark’s. It has some … Continue reading
Dubrovnik’s Summer Festival
It’s a fantasy for romantics – a medieval walled city whose gorgeous forts, palaces, churches and squares are transformed for a short time into a consummate set for theatre, concerts, ballet, dance, film, comedy and opera. Here’s a screenshot of … Continue reading
Hydra, art island
The late great Canadian poet and singer, Leonard Cohen’s Bird on a Wire perfectly captured the freedom-seeking zeitgeist of the 1960s. It wasn’t written in Haight Ashbury or Kathmandu or even Goa, but on Hydra. Below is a screenshot of my story … Continue reading
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