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1 month ago | 
porthole.com | Kate Wickers
5 “Now, have I got a story for you…” is a greeting as common as “hello” in Dublin, one of the world’s greatest cities of literature, where lyrical storytelling is as important a tradition today as it was when Bram Stoker put pen to paper to write Dracula or W.B. Yeats his Nobel Prize–winning poetry.
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1 month ago | 
theethicalist.com | Anthea Ayache |Kate Wickers |Karen Pasquali Jones
Sustainable Stays and Wild Wonders in Germany’s Black Forest With its mystical lakes, towering trees, and the return of native species like the wolf, Germany’s Southern Black Forest is truly living up to its motto: ‘let nature be nature’ by Anthea Ayache Seas4Life: The Eco-Chic Adventure Protecting Kenya’s Oceans From paddle-boarding with dolphins and snorkeling with turtles, to staying in eco-luxe villas, a trip with Seas4Life brings adventure and conservation together to protect Kenya’s...
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Lee Cobaj |adrian bridge |Poonam Binayak |Kate Wickers
These resorts in Asia have luxury spas and holistic health programmes, but won't break the bankFrom Traditional Chinese medicine to Indian Ayurveda, many Asian wellness practices date back thousands of years. Combine those, passed down through generations, with a booming medi-spa tourism industry and you have a continent globally renowned for its outstanding health retreats.
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2 months ago | 
scotsman.com | Kate Wickers
Fans of The White Lotus can get a flavour of the luxury on offer by staying at the hotel where it was filmed, the Four Seasons Koh Samui in Thailand, writes Kate Wickers. If you’ve been watching The White Lotus (and if you haven’t, what on earth have you been doing?), the chances are you’re still wondering what it’s really like to stay there?
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Kate Wickers
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Kate Wickers
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Kate Wickers
A mum of three, our writer and her husband came to terms with their newly empty nest on a campervan trip around New Zealand's South Island If you were to ignore the amount of kit and kaboodle we once had to lug around, the constant battle to get our three sons to try foreign food, the sorting out of squabbles over choice of bed/airline seat/activity/fill-in-the-blank, it's easy to look back with rose-tinted spectacles at the travel adventures we enjoyed as a family of five (even with the...
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
thesun.co.uk | Kate Wickers
FEASTING on a five-course meal in a stunning castle with a view over Slovenia’s famously beautiful Lake Bled, for less than £50, is very, very tasty value for money. There can be few places in Europe that compare to 16th-century Bled Castle for the food and view you get for your tourist money. To get to Lake Bled is easy — just a 40-minute drive after flying into Slovenian capital Ljubljana.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
thejc.com | Kate Wickers
Rachid, my guide from Tours by Locals, is attempting to drag my attention away from a purring tabby cat and her two lovely kittens, which have taken up residency in a cart filled with a tangle of fishing nets in the busy Moroccan port of Essaouira. Pronounced es weera in Arabic, it lies on the Atlantic coast, 108 miles from the beach resort of Agadir and 118 miles from Marrakesh.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
thejc.com | Kate Wickers
The copper-hued scales of El Peix — Frank Gehry’s spectacular 52-metre-long golden fish sculpture — are blinking in the late-afternoon sun next to a palm-fringed retro pool, reminiscent of a painting by Edward Hopper. Fittingly for an art-focused weekend in Barcelona, I’ve booked into the Hotel Arts opposite.
