Se Cova Des Pujol and nearby Felanitx – Mallorca at its most magical. You dream about taking a holiday in a quality villa with a fabulous private swimming pool, surrounded by scenery so beautiful that landscape artists congregate here in their droves, in a place where you can smell both the countryside and the sea.
Brittany’s Villa St. Tremeur – A rock star-like pad in the most traditional of settings. When one thinks of the highly traditional lands of Brittany, the word ‘modern’ does not immediately spring to mind. If however your holiday aspirations this year revolve around visiting a place of timeless and enduring character, where locals and visitors
“Consider your summer sorted”, the Sunday Times declares, by visiting La Gustave in Provence. Vintage Travel’s truly magnificent villa La Gustave was number three on this year’s highly respected Sunday Times’ “50 Sensational villas” in Europe list. “It’s rare to find two-bedroom houses with so much space and character in Provence, especially in the Luberon.
Tzaneria Tree, Skopelos – Where Vintage Travel and the Sunday Times have something in common! When the Sunday Times considers a villa to be worthy of appearing on its “50 sensational villas” in Europe list, you know that the villa in question has to be a little bit special, even if you don’t particularly like
Rovinj is a town for artists and their easels, photographers and their cameras and lovers and their romance! This delightfully picturesque Istrian town has been cited by several travel writers as being one of the prettiest towns of the whole Mediterranean coastline. Rovinj was firmly attached to mainland Croatia 250 years ago, having previously been
Gorge Du Verdon – A place well worth giving up your beach towel for! The Verdon Gorge, as the English rock climbers call it, is a spectacular and beautiful deep canyon in the Alpes-de-Haute region of Provence in South East France. Considered by many to be the most breathtaking of all European gorges, this massive
The Cabo De Gata Natural Park – Andalucia’s greatest tourism asset. When you see the advertisements on television or in magazines for Andalucia, what you are often looking at are photographs or videos taken in the Cabo De Gata Natural Park. With its wide open spaces, dramatic jagged mountain peaks and quaint seaside villages, it
Col du Tourmalet, Southern French Pyrenees – Where the ‘King of the Mountains’ is decided! The Col Du Tourmalet is legendary as being one of the most difficult and hazardous climbs in the Tour De France. Not all of the Cols in France are used in the Tour every year. The race committee rotate the
The unpretentious and somewhat scruffy town of Figueres not far from the French border in Catalonia boasts a great triumph; it is where the great impressionist painter Salvador Dali was born. While modest and fairly non-descript in its aesthetical appearance, Figueres is an interesting town. For starters there is the museum, which is dedicated to
From Corsairs to antiques – Why St Malo is well worthy of a visit! One of the many ferry routes from France to the UK leaves from the port of St Malo in Brittany and this can give the traveller some time to investigate this exquisite little French town, and it’s worth investigating as well!
