Author: Andrea Watson
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Christiana and the trouble with Udopea
Self-style indie community that wants to bite the hand that protects is
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Why have student digs gone from dingy to designer?
Global shortage of student accommodation is creating a new asset class
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Discover John Steinbeck’s heavenly home in England
“The countryside is turning as lush as a plum…..There’s a quality here that I haven’t known for very long. The 20th century seems very remote.” So wrote John Steinbeck in 1959 when he was living in Somerset and researching his book on King Arthur. Later, in an interview, he said that he had been happier […]
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Find barefoot luxury in colourful and friendly Grenada
“ALL island tours will include five harmonica interludes and palatable humour”. So read the business card of Roger, my driver on the Caribbean island of Grenada. The humour turned out to be more palatable than the harmonica and certainly a lot safer on the road but that did not prevent Roger from giving us a […]
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Meeting with Dire Straits as they kick off on World Tour with a gig in Egypt
An odd combination of events took me to Egypt’s Red Sea Riviera last week. One was a desire to escape the grey skies and rain storms of an English January and spend a week in the sun which is after all guaranteed in Egypt, is it not? The second was to find out why the […]
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David Bowie’s most played tracks in the 21st century
Legendary singer still inspires with songs that never die
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Lady Colin Campbell makes the most of her jungle fame
HER brown jacket had LADY C clearly stamped on the back – but even from the rear there was no mistaking the husky, imperious tones of Lady Colin Campbell when she appeared in ITV’s 15th series of I’m a Celebrity….Get Me out of Here! But it was a bit of a shock when she faced […]
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Landscape hunting in Italy – Part 1
Take an art trail that follows the footsteps of Renaissance masters
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Plea to help save Syria’s heritage from Isis
Action plan to halt destruction of monuments and sale of antiquities funding terrorism
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Sharm el Sheikh and how Egyptian security came under fire
THE last time that I researched the cost of an all-inclusive holiday on the Red Sea Riviera, it came to around £400 per head. The price included flights, transfers, 7 nights in a 4-5* hotel, breakfast, lunch, dinner and all you can drink, plus almost certainly a belly dancing display. The 5 * hotels at […]