Antonia Quirke

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Presenter at BBC Radio 1

Contributing Editor at Condé Nast Traveller

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Die 10 schönsten Hotels am Comer See

1 month ago | cntraveller.de | Kiki Deere |Antonia Quirke

Die schönsten Hotels am Comer See – mit viel Geschichte, Luxus und Ruhe. Die Faszination des Comer Sees als Reiseziel reicht bis in die Zeit der Römer zurück – Plinius der Jüngere soll hier seine Sommer verbracht haben. Im 16. Jahrhundert dann entstanden jene prächtige Villen, die später zu eleganten Hotels wurden. Sie boten eine stilvolle Unterkunft für anspruchsvolle junge Aristokrat:innen, die auf der Reise durch Europa und auf der Suche nach Kultur und Inspiration waren.
where Kate and Will are celebrating their anniversary

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Antonia Quirke
The hot new spot to go wild on Scotland’s west coast - all year round

Oct 25, 2024 | thetimes.com | Antonia Quirke

As summer suddenly pitches up in October on Islay, the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, I swing a club chaotically around a championship green and remember the words of AA Milne: “Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” Undulating towards marram grass on sand dunes, the green gives way to a seven-mile beach with nothing on it but curlews. Behind me, a big white hotel juts up from the landscape under sky that’s as blue as a blackbird’s egg.
Tinos: the romantic Greek Island

Jul 18, 2024 | cntraveller.in | Antonia Quirke |Sarah Leigh Bannerman

Address: Odera Tinos, Vourni beach, Tinos, 842 00, GreeceDesign lovers will revel in the architecture and interiors at Pnoēs Tinos in Lagkades. Comprising just three villas, each with two bedrooms, a kitchen area and a private pool, it’s worth booking in for more than a few nights to truly embrace slow-paced island life. Aesthetics are curated by Greek architect Aristides Dallas and draw from the island’s history while celebrating local craftsmanship. As such, it comes Design Hotels approved.
The Ever-Presence of Mythology on Greece's Peloponnese Peninsula

May 8, 2024 | cntraveler.com | Antonia Quirke

All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I am looking for the gates to Hades, but have overshot the turn. Somewhere below is the cave from which Heracles dragged the fearsome three-headed dog Cerberus into daylight so bright its slobber formed yellow flowers of aconite. Instead, I find a beach of pale rock and water that's glass-calm to the horizon.
The wild dining food trend taking over Scotland

Apr 26, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Antonia Quirke

‘Sometimes,” says the chef Tim Kensett as a terrific lurch of wind lags his cagoule to his back, “this kind of wild dining is wilder for me than for the guests.” On the side of a hill in the west Highlands, Kensett sits some oysters on a burning log of beech “to give them a hit of charred smokiness”. We’re in a lean-to kitchen partly open to the elements, and through the wall is his dining room, a snug 500-year-old stone bothy lit by candles and smelling of warm straw, fennel and beeswax.
An adventure through Wester Ross - a Scottish land of transcendent peaks, wild coastline and shifting light

Dec 25, 2023 | cntraveller.com | Antonia Quirke

On the white wintry shore, it is sunny and raining all at once. This is Wester Ross, where rags of mist hang in crystal-clear air, the sand is made of crushed cowrie shells, and peaks of water shudder in the strait from which a rainbow jags suddenly towards a dazzling sun, only to dissolve like a spectre.
My wild escape on a tiny Scottish island in the inner Hebrides

Nov 3, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Antonia Quirke

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The hidden corner of Scotland - just a few hours from Glasgow

Aug 9, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Antonia Quirke

This view blew Wordsworth’s mind. Not Grasmere or Windermere — but Loch Linnhe on Scotland’s west coast. When he first saw it during a strenuous Highland tour in the summer of 1803 with his sister, Dorothy, she noted their mutual delight in her journal. They could not “dream of fairer worlds than this”. Linnhe is a 30-mile-long sea loch, and its water can be perfectly still — the word linne means “pool” in Gaelic.
Unvergesslicher Urlaub am Comer See: Das sind die 7 schönsten Unterkünfte

Jul 29, 2023 | vogue.de | Antonia Quirke

Hotels am Comer See: Von familiengeführten Unterkünften bis hin zu glanzvollen Neuzugängen – hier ist unsere Auswahl der 7 besten Adressen für einen unvergesslichen Urlaub. Kaum jemand kann der einzigartigen Magie widerstehen, die von Italiens größtem See ausgeht. Virgil nannte Como "den schönsten See", und Plinius der Jüngere hatte hier eine Villa, von der er sagte, die Veranda sei "immer wie der Frühling".