Kate Wickers

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How to have a White Lotus-style holiday for less

2 weeks 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.
I stayed at the real White Lotus and it's more child-friendly than it appears on screen

2 weeks 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?
I returned to Shanghai after 25 years. This is how it has changed

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Kate Wickers

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What I learnt on my first holiday as an empty nester

1 month ago | msn.com | Kate Wickers

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What I learnt on my first holiday as an empty nester

1 month 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...
The European city with lakeside castles, thermal baths and insanely cheap food

1 month ago | 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.
Exploring Essaouira - where can you find Jewish heritage in Morocco

2 months ago | 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.
Visions of Barcelona - The Jewish Chronicle

2 months ago | 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.
Where to see gorillas in Rwanda and Uganda

2 months ago | thejc.com | Kate Wickers

It doesn’t matter how many times you play the famous clip of David Attenborough reclining among mountain gorillas while attempting to communicate in gorilla language or watch the award-winning 80s film Gorillas in the Mist, because nothing can prepare you for your first face-to-face meeting with a 198kg silverback in the wild. Sharing 98 per cent of the same DNA, locking eyes with one is like meeting a long lost relative. “Oh, I know you,” it seems to say, and a wonderous connection is made.
Colourful Colombia - why this South American country is topping travel wishlists

2 months ago | thejc.com | Kate Wickers

From a riverside pontoon above sandy banks where blue crabs scurry, I watch local men casting nets by hand, waist deep in the water — within 50 metres of two caimans: their alligator eyes and snouts visible above the water, their four-metre-long bodies a menacing watery shadow. It’s a riveting scene, just one of many found in and around Tayrona National Park in the very north of Colombia.