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Favourites: Tregarthen’s Hotel in the Isles of Scilly

  Not many hotels make it on to my favourites list. The ones that do have that special je ne sais quoi, I-want-to-stay-here-forever feeling. I know when I find one because I start planning a return nearly as soon as I get there. Tregarthen’s made it on to my list. Scilly …

Favourites: The Hitching Post, the BEST Santa Maria Bar-B-Que

  This summer Visit California suggested we stop in Santa Maria on our trip from San Francisco to Surf City USA. It is about half way, and a nice place to break up the 6 and 1/2 hour drive. My ears perked up at the suggestion. My mother grew up in Santa …

Favourites: Park Plaza County Hall London & L’Italiano

  To make my list of favourites there needs to be something special about a place, something that really stands out. You know, the type of place you start planning your next visit in your head, even before you’ve left. Read on to see why I would return to Park Plaza County …

Favourites: Gliffaes Country House Hotel in Wales

  Every once in a while you find a hotel that you really love. The kind where you make mental plans to return nearly as soon as you put the key into your room door and plop onto the down feather comforter. It’s exotic enough from your own home to make being away really …