Hotels

DONA - Lisbon's most beautiful boutique hotel

DONA - Lisbon's most beautiful boutique hotel

02/15/2019
Cities, Hotels, Lisbon
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When traveling, you sometimes find great places and other times, they find you. That's what happened late last year when a small, newly open apartment hotel in Lisbon's district of Graca got in touch to invite me to stay with them if I'd ever be in the neighbourhood. By some wonderful coincidence I was in fact going to be in Lisbon just 2 weeks later and was[...]
Dhigali - Could this be the coolest Hotel in the Maldives?

Dhigali - Could this be the coolest Hotel in the Maldives?

02/11/2019
Hotels, Maldives
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I have been incredibly lucky with my travels last year and even got the chance to return to one of my favorite holiday destinations: the Maldives. I know what some of you might think - what does a single girl do in such a romantic honeymoon destination? I used to agree with this sentiment until I realized - if I wait for the right guy to go places with, I mi[...]
Staying at Soneva - Eco-friendly Travel in the Maldives

Staying at Soneva - Eco-friendly Travel in the Maldives

01/30/2019
Hotels, Maldives
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Green travel has become an absolute buzzword over the last couple of years and with good reason. By now we all have realized that everyone's actions matter when it comes to the environment and that doesn't or shouldn't stop when holiday time comes around. I think it was last year during my first trip to the Maldives when I realized what a huge problem the[...]
10 Airbnb's Around The World We're Lusting After

10 Airbnb's Around The World We're Lusting After

12/09/2018
Destinations, Hotels, Inspiration
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Airbnb's are the affordable homes away from home that we just can't get enough of. It's not only the fact they're a fraction of the cost of other accommodation options either. There's something distinctly welcoming and authentic about staying in a local's home - an intangible personal touch that mass produced chain hotels will simply never be able to match. [...]
Is El Raval Barcelona's coolest neighborhood?

Is El Raval Barcelona's coolest neighborhood?

10/27/2018
Barcelona, Cities, Hotels
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I was only 19 when I first went to Barcelona. And I didn't come as tourist. I arrived with just one suitcase and €270 cash in my pocket, ready to pay for my room in an apartment I would share with 4 other people from 4 different nations. That room was in a part of Barcelona called El Raval, making up one side of the infamous La Rambla, the Barrio Gotico's ug[...]
Hotels we love: Breathing Nordic air in Smucke Steed

Hotels we love: Breathing Nordic air in Smucke Steed

09/22/2018
Hamburg, Hotels, North Sea
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One of my long-term travel resolutions this year has been to reduce the amount of flights I take and explore my surroundings a little better. I wanted to get to know Germany's lesser known hideaways a little better and felt that two decades of escaping to faraway places left me clueless as to where a good old weekend on the countryside can be spent. Now Smuc[...]
Club holidaying in Thailand - Do or Don't?

Club holidaying in Thailand - Do or Don't?

08/15/2018
Beaches, Hotels
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As I am typing this I am sat on a plane back home, leaving a wondrous journey of 3 weeks through Thailand with my 4-year old son. And for the first time in these 4 years as a mother my trip was not unlike the trips I would go on before I had him. We rode on speed boats, minivans, tuk-tuks and songtaews, washed elephants in the mud, woke up to monkeys swingin[...]
East meets east - Getting zen in Bali

East meets east - Getting zen in Bali

07/16/2018
Bali, Hotels
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This July I had great plans to finally add two new countries to my personal map: I was going take my first trip to Tokyo followed by seeing my family in the Philippines. Alas, as it happens sometimes happens in life - you can plan all you want, things can still go wrong or in my case not work out at all. My travel plans fell through within a week to spare an[...]