Reviews

I have just featured two hotels (Cube and Ongava) where the guests’ needs, in terms of why they are at those locations, has driven…

The boy was nervous, shining his torch carefully into the shadows, walking slowly so we were treading on his heels. The man with the…

I have a fascination with railway hotels. In Britain, they were part of the revolution in travel and hotel use in the mid-nineteenth century….

Cube’s name is expressive. The building is a glass cube, unashamedly modernist amongst the traditional Tyrolean valley chalet style architecture. The ‘shock of the…

Noel Coward’s ‘Brief Encounter’ was set on a railway platform in which a couple waiting for different trains fall for one another. Returning to…

We tend to think of the USA as a new country filled with new buildings. However the preservation of old buildings is as much…

South Africa is in the Southern Hemisphere, which means its seasons are the reverse of those in the Northern Hemisphere – as upside down…

To look into the increasing popularity of small and personal luxury cruises in 2009 we headed to Scotland to sample a cruise along the…