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The second
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Geneva - the
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Full steam
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AllWays Switzerland
Geneva - the cosmopolitan
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The Bryant
Park Hotel rises 25 stories above mid-town Manhattan and
overlooks Bryant Park.
It is housed in the American
Radiator building, the black-and-gold 1920´s Gothic
landmark.
www.bryantparkhotel.com
Mallorca
La
Residencia in Deià, Mallorca has been voted Best Leisure
Hotel in Europe in Condé Nast Traveller’s Readers Travel
Awards and 10th on the world’s top 100.
Mallorca (Spanish), also known as Majorca, is Spain's
largest island in the Mediterranean.
La
Residencia is one of the Reis de Mallorca group of
independent hotels on the island.
www.hotel-laresidencia.com
www.reisdemallorca.com
The Torridon Inn,
Scotland
The Torridon Inn on the shores of Loch Torridon in
Western Ross, Scotland has been named Pub of the Year,
Scotland at the AA Centenary Awards 2008.
The sister Torridon Hotel has
also been awarded four AA Red Stars.
www.thetorridon.com
The West
Indies
ITC
Sports are offering a Platinum Cricket Cruise that will
follow England’s tour of the West Indies next February.
The
company has chartered the small cruise ship (Silversea’s
Silver Shadow), which will be stopping at Jamaica, St
Barts, Puerto Rico, Antigua and the Dominican Republic
on a 16 night itinerary (2 to 18 February 2009).
www.itcsports.co.uk
Petit St Vincent
Petit St
Vincent is a Robinson Crusoe style desert island retreat
in the Grenadines, a Caribbean island chain of over 600
islands in the Windward Islands.
With 22 spacious
stone cottages dotted around 113 acres of landscape, PSV
is a secluded Caribbean hideaway.
The
emphasis is on total relaxation, with no phones,
televisions or newspapers.
www.psvresort.com
The
Riding Company
The Riding Company
specialise in exclusive riding holidays.
This gives you the
chance to gallop across high alpine meadows, wade
through fast-flowing rivers, climb up through steep
mountain forests and enjoy stunning natural landscape
from horseback.
www.theridingcompany.com
The
Falkland Islands
Adventure Life Voyages has unveiled its Falkland Islands
expedition cruises.
www.adventure-life.com
VIP
Chalets
VIP, a
bespoke luxury ski chalet company, has eight privately
owned chalets in Méribel (in the French Alps), nine in
Val d'Isère (the French ski resort on the Italy border)
and three in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt.
vip-chalets.com
Likoma
Island, Lake Malawi
Likoma
Island is the larger of two inhabited islands in Lake
Malawi (the smaller being the nearby Chizumulu island).
Both islands lie a
few kilometres from Mozambique, and are entirely
surrounded by Mozambican waters, but belong to Malawi.
Set in Lake Malawi, one hours
flight north of Lilongwe, the 17 sq km Likoma Island has
a population of over 6,000, and some of the clearest
water, idyllic bays and secluded beaches in Africa.
The
Kaya Mawa Lodge on the island's southern tip has been
voted by Conde Nast magazine as one of the planet’s 10
most romantic destinations.
www.wilderness-safaris.com
www.malawitourism.com
Agro tourism in the UK
Interest in farmstay holidays in the UK is growing and
reflects the number of farmers turning to travel and
tourism – ‘agro tourism’ – as a means of subsidising
incomes.
responsibletravel.com has 3,000 holidays from over 270
specialist operators. All the holidays meet responsible
tourism guidelines.
www.responsibletravel.com/farmstays
Santa trips to Lapland
Santa holiday
specialist Esprit Holidays offers holidays of 1 - 5 days
duration to Rovaniemi and Saariselka in Finnish Lapland.
The trips
include a family snowmobile sleigh ride and private
meeting with Santa, a husky dog ride, a reindeer sleigh
ride and outdoor thermal wear.
www.santaslapland.com
bookahotelonline.co.uk
bookahotelonline.co.uk is a new accommodation-search
website offering a wide selection of properties
including many independent and major hotel chains,
executive apartments, self-catering cottages and villas.
www.bookahotelonline.co.uk
Central and South America
Cox & Kings
has launched its Latin America brochure for 2009,
featuring a programme of escorted group tours, private
journeys and tailor-made holidays throughout Central and
South America, and Antarctica.
www.coxandkings.co.uk
The
Grand Resort, Cyprus
The newly
renovated Grand Resort, Cyprus is a five star hotel set
in landscaped tropical gardens, on a beach side location
in the exclusive Amathus area of Limassol about 11 km
from Limassol town center.
www.grandresort.com.cy
Frégate
Island Private, Seychelles’
Frégate Island
Private, a three-km square island offering 16
luxuriously appointed villas, in the Seychelles’ has
launched its fleet of solar powered guest buggies as
part of an ongoing drive towards achieving
carbon-negative status.
Frégate
Island, which is one of the most important sanctuaries
for rare endemic and indigenous animals, has also
reforested well over 80,000 local trees as part of its
programme to restore natural habitats, with two trees
planted for every new arrival.
Seven beaches
can also be enjoyed in total seclusion with guests on
the island never exceeding forty.
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Geneva,
Switzerland's second city after Zürich, lies where the
Rhône River exits Lake Geneva and is a small, modern
city with a truly historic old town by a magnificent
lake and surrounded by mountains.
Geneva also enjoys a uniquely
cosmopolitan ambiance that befits a world financial,
diplomatic and economic centre and the UN's European HQ. |
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For the
visitor Geneva also has 1,823 restaurants serving the
finest world cuisines (39 Michelin Guide rated and 41
Gault and Millau rated) and 40 hotels of 4 star or
above.
www.geneva-tourism.ch
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AllWays Bermuda
Environmentatally friendly luxury |
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9 Beaches, is
an environmentally-friendly hotel in Bermuda, a British
overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The
resort has 84 cabanas on stilts so there is little
environmental impact to the land and the owners are
particularly proud of the garden landscaping used
throughout the resort, which requires no additional
watering.
www.9beaches.com
AllWays Quebec
Celebrating New France |
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Carolan
Nathan has always wanted to visit French Canada and took
the opportunity to be in Quebec City at the time of the
SAQ New France Festival, a yearly extravaganza
celebrating the founding of Quebec.
Situated at the junction of major
rivers, ‘Kebec’, the Algonquin name for ‘where the river
narrows’ became a meeting place for the Indian tribes -
the First Nations - and part of an area later to be
named French Canada. |
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Quebec has
since been named a World Heritage Treasure because of
its unique architectural and historic value, and is
considered the cradle of French civilization in North
America.
French
with a local flavour is spoken by many of the
inhabitants although English is mostly a common
language.
www.toursvieuxquebec.com
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more : AllWays online at
www.allwaystraveller.com
AllWays Africa
Bats and more in Zambia
Wildlife Worldwide run bat
safaris, specially timed to coincide with Zambia’s
spectacular bat migration.
Every year at the end of October
thousands of Straw-coloured Fruit Bats congregate in the
trees of the Mushitu swamp forest near the confluence of
the Musola and Kasanka rivers in Kasanka National Park.
The bats come to feed for just six short weeks, gorging
on the abundance of seasonal fruit and by mid-November
their numbers reach into the millions.
www.wildlifeworldwide.com
AllWays Florence
An Italian love story
There is so much to look at in
Florence, a Renaissance jewel writes Coralan Nathan. |
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The
architecture, paintings, statues and the little shops
where wonderful breads, cheeses, wines and varied salame
and prosciutto are on display. But little known are some
of the illustrious women in Tuscany.
www.italiantouristboard.co.uk
Read
more : AllWays online at
www.allwaystraveller.com
AllWays
South Africa
Mossel Bay in the heart of the Garden Route
The seaside town of Mossel bay is situated halfway
between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, in the heart of
the Garden Route.
A bustling holiday resort in
summer and warm weather retreat in winter, it is second
only to Hawaii for having the mildest all-year climate
in the world.
The Point Hotel is built right on
the rocks above a huge natural rock pool and overlooks
the endless blue expanse of the Indian Ocean.
www.pointhotel.co.za
AllWays Montana
Triple Creek Ranch |
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The Triple
Creek Ranch in Darby, Montana has been voted top hotel
in the Continental USA and Canada in Travel + Leisure’s
World’s Best awards.
The resort is set in
over 600 acres of wooded hillside and open meadows and
bordered by the Bitterroot National Forest in three
directions and a backdrop of the Montana Rockies.
Montana, a state in
the Western region of the United States of America,
includes part of the Rocky Mountains.
The state is also
home to the Glacier National Park, the Battle of Little
Bighorn site, and three of the five entrances to
Yellowstone National Park.
www.triplecreekranch.com
AllWays London
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre |
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While
referring to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as providing a
unique theatrical experience is undoubtedly true, it
still fails to do this place justice.
It
might work to call it allsome (sic) as the Globe sucks
its audiences into an all-embracing, all-encompassing
and all-consuming occasion.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, recreates the Elizabethan
playhouse on the south bank of the Thames that was home
to the Lord Chamberlain's Men, which counted one William
Shakespeare among its troupe.
www.shakespeares-globe.org
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more : AllWays online at
www.allwaystraveller.com
AllWays Israel
The Baha'i Shrines and Gardens
The Baha'i Shrines and Gardens in Haifa and Acre have
been added to the eleven World Heritage Sites in Israel.
The
resting places of the faith's founding fathers
Baha'u'llah and the Bab, they represent the first World
Heritage sites connected with a religious tradition born
in modern times.
The elaborate
landscaped gardens and shrines are a site of annual
pilgrimage for the five million Baha'i faithful and
hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world.
www.thinkisrael.com
AllWays Vietnam
Ha Long Bay
Ha Long Bay, a
UNESCO listed World Heritage area, is 165 km from Hanoi
in the Gulf of Tonkin comprises a series of more than
3,000 islands and one of the world’s most spectacular
destinations.
The Novotel Ha
Long Bay, is located on the beach front and is within
easy walking distance of local markets and the pier
where sightseeing cruises depart.
www.accorhotels.com
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