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Friday, 13 September 2019

Proms, 9/11 musical offer different takes on the glories of live music

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My father lands at Heathrow tonight from a small town in mid-Missouri. He already has seven outings booked in his six-week visit: two musica...
Saturday, 31 August 2019

Avebury, HMS Belfast and Glyndebourne show the diversity of English attractions

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The plunging pound may be killing my holiday spending power, but it's drawing foreign tourists to British shores like bees to a spring o...
Friday, 16 August 2019

Tivoli: the "original" Disneyland keeps a charm long gone from Anaheim

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My first holiday with the man who would become my husband included a trip to Disneyland. Back in the early days of our relationship and stil...
Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Krebsegaarden, Relae show why Denmark pulls the food tourists

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Early in the next decade the Danish chamber of commerce expects the country to have enough hotel beds to accommodate up to 10 million touris...
Monday, 12 August 2019

Even at its worst, Copenhagen is worth the effort

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The Danish countryside in August is a vacationers paradise. While most of Europe heads south, this rolling land of farms, long beaches, comf...
Saturday, 27 July 2019

Mayfair's Umu celebrates perfection in every element

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Obsession is a necessity for Michelin-starred chefs. Nobody survives in a gruelling industry that robs you of your social life, rises above ...
Sunday, 21 July 2019

Lime Wood lives up to the Angela Hartnett promise

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There’s much hand-wringing these days about the effects of positive screening on social media. Because we only share the best of our lives...
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