A rather grand secret

22 October 2014 | Alex Ninian discovers sensational St Jean de Luz. I’ll be in dead trouble with some for writing this because those who love the place don’t want anyone else to know about it. It has no

Alex Ninian discovers sensational St Jean de Luz.

Read More

Weird but wonderful!

7 October 2014 | Listen up, y'all: Austin's the new star of The Lone Star State, writes Nigel Blundell This is the wild West – but not the way you’d imagine it. Yep, we’re in Texas, where you might expect

Read More

You’ll feel young in Palm

5 May 2014 | Palm Springs is the perfect location for a golf getaway it is also brilliant for a wintersun holiday. And if you take the family there are plenty of hotel and apartment accommodation options and

Read More

Sunshine mountain golf in winter!

5 May 2014 | If you’re a golfer missing his winter fix then I have the ultimate dream destination – Palm Springs in California, where they have sunny and warm mountain and desert golf year-round.  And I 

Read More

The Everglades

1 April 2014 | It is a river, not a swamp I was talking in the hotel to an academic-looking fellow-guest who turned out to be an ecologist,  who explained that the Everglades is technically a river and not a

It’s a river, not a swamp, says Alex NinianRead More

Marvellous Moscow

19 March 2014 | Fellow traveller Chris Exall finds his favourite city totally changed – for the better. Moscow is hardly a short-break destination, but could be soon as the low-cost airlines now operate there,

Fellow traveller Chris Exall finds his favourite city totally changed – for the better.Read More

Venice of America

17 March 2014 | Alex Ninian makes his annual spring pilgrimage to Florida. You’ll love Fort Lauderdale’s waterworld The Venice of America and Yachting Capital of the World are two not-entirely modest or

Alex Ninian makes his annual spring pilgrimage to Florida.Read More