Podstine Hotel, Hvar, Croatia
Croatia

Review of Hotel Podstine, Hvar, Croatia

From the moment you arrive in this pine, cypress and palm studded oasis, you are made to feel welcome in Paradise. This is elegant simplicity and shoulder-loosening tranquillity at its best in idyllic surroundings, an easy amble from the historic centre of Hvar Town. […]

Daubensee, Valaise, Switzerland
Hiking

Walking with Ghosts in Switzerland’s Valais

I may have enjoyed the 21st century luxury of being whisked here by cable car rather than on foot along the potentially treacherous path of the Gemmi Pass as my celebrated predecessors had done, but the magnitude of what lay before me was the same one that had spread before their eyes 150 years ago. […]