The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chose tiny North Island in the Indian Ocean for their honeymoon in 2011. The ripple effect of that visit has been a blessing for property owners in the Seychelles. At the Eden Bleu marina on Mahe, one of the three main islands in the archipelago, some owners have doubled […]

I remember my first visit to Montenegro in 2006 as a mixture of awe at the landscape and horror at the concrete tangle of Herceg Novi, the border town with Croatia. There were no direct flights at that time so you arrived in Dubrovnik and crawled along the coastline on a terrible road drinking in […]

The north-east corner of Sardinia was almost unknown until the 1960s when the Aga Khan came here and began to develop luxury hotels. Now almost everyone associates Sardinia with the Costa Smeralda, Porto Cervo, super yachts and celebrities. But there’s another side to the Gallura region. Indeed much of it remains wild and uncultivated and […]

Adventures in the Shamwari Safari Park, Port Elizabeth

“Dubai has become a destination, most buyers are looking to stay long term and the flippers have gone,” says Jason Hayes, managing director of Luxury Property (luxuryproperty.com) which specialises in the area. Hayes is agent for the boutique firm Xtreme Vision which has to date finished just two residential projects here: Le Reve and Volante […]

JOY Roberts-Barry is making the best of the extra days she is spending in Spain after the collapse of Monarch. What else can she do? The problem is that she has two beloved dogs who were checked into a flight home Monday morning at the end of a holiday in Spain. Neither easyJet nor Ryanair […]

As a punishment for its lack of support, General Franco vowed that Menorca would get no funds for tourism. Thanks to the lack of mass market packages, the island has got the last laugh. Leeds-born Colin Guanaria came to the island 21 years ago with his wife Margaret. They liked it so much they decided […]

As a punishment for its lack of support, General Franco vowed that Menorca would get no funds for tourism. Thanks to the lack of mass market packages, the island has got the last laugh. Leeds-born Colin Guanaria came to the island 21 years ago with his wife Margaret. They liked it so much they decided […]

Museum brings science to the art of restoration

“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 […]