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Sep 12

Trains, planes and automobiles

Well we made it through. The 25-year Magaluf reunion was a real laugh although it might take my sense of smell a while to lose the constant odour of puke, which Magaluf gratefully bestows!

There were two very late nights, each followed by an unfamiliar early afternoon wake up, sandwiched between two nights of two hours sleep each. Last night my room mate beating me to a deep sleep for the first time this weekend so I had to listen to his cacophonous snoring. Once I piece it all together I’ll write more on our weekend amongst the teenagers and geriatrics that mingle, mostly in a very northern accent, in this little corner of Majorca.

Because I try to make my life as complicated as possible, this trip doesn’t stop there. The Magaluf weekend had been in the diary for long time and so had a friends wedding in Chicago next Saturday. All fine so far. I had even pencilled in a little trip to Milton Keynes tomorrow night after the fixtures came out in the summer.

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Sep 6

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Air miles

With the announcement that Air Miles is rebranding to Avios I have decided to beat the record of combining the most flights and beers into a single week.

Overnight tonight I fly to Gatwick, and in the morning after a super strong cup of Costa Coffee I will drive down to my parents in the East Sussex countryside for a little breakfast. Then I get back in the motor and will rush back to Maidstone to have a look around my son’s new school, Oakwood Park, and then take him out to dinner.

Thursday is the lull before the storm, when I plan to catch up with a few people and some zzzz’s.
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Jul 6

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River Plate memories

4 years ago we visited Argentina and whilst there we were fortunate enough to be at a River Plate home game in Buenos Aires (right) on the opening day of the Clausura (closing season). For those unaware the Argentinian league system works on a two seasons a year basis, the Clausura from February to June and preceding that, the Apertura (opening season) from August to December.

This is a Latin American phenomenon and is said to fill gaps in the latter part of a full season (cup competitions are not such big thing in South America particularly) and allows the lesser teams the same amount of games.

Relegations, if any, are done on an aggregate basis, and this is where the cynicism comes in. In the Argentine leagues the average points over the previous three seasons are used to determine relegation, thus making relegation of one of the ‘big clubs’ impossible, well almost.
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Jul 1

Travelogue: Aspen, Colorado

Aspen, aptly named for the Aspen trees filling its mountainsides (those aren’t individual trees but a large connection of roots!), is one of the West’s oldest towns. Booming in the 1800s during the Gold Rush and becoming a ski mountain in the 1940s, Aspen now attracts the outdoor-loving set who hit its mountains for skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling, as well as summer and fall hiking, biking, whitewater rafting and horseback riding adventures. Located in the Fork Valley, Aspen’s slogan is “the Power of Four” due to its close proximity to Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass Mountains, meaning a trip to Aspen actually gives you access to four mountains of fun.

Aspen Mountain begins at nearly 8,000 feet at its base, climbing to 11,212 feet in height. Known for its ski slopes, 76 trails over 64 miles keep powder lovers occupied from late November through mid-April. However, Aspen is not for the beginner: there are no green trails on this here mountain. Instead, new skiers and boarders will have to traverse the trails at Buttermilk and Snowmass, the two most family-friendly mountains of the four and about a 20 minute drive away. Beware because kids also get bussed to these resorts as there are no ski facilities for children in Aspen.
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Jun 27

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A week in New York

Back to Bermuda yesterday and it is with relief that I don’t have to travel again for about six weeks – home for the Bournemouth match in fact.

New York was fun. A flurry of midweek work meetings was sandwiched between two wonderful long weekends.

The first one was at friends in a lovely little town called Madison in New Jersey. We knew that by flying into JFK on a Friday that we could potentially run into nightmarish traffic. We hadn’t a clue. 

A two hour flight delay meant we landed at 2 .30pm and we then had the gruelling task of batting it from Queens into Lower Manhattan and through the Holland Tunnel to Jersey with bazillions of others the day the schools broke up. 

We spent five and a half hours in the car and by the time we got to our friends there was 45 miles on the clock and my daughter had learnt a whole new range of vocabulary! It was almost funny, no you’re right it wasn’t funny at all.
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Jun 16

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Second bite of the Big Apple

After being there last week, a further 9 days in New York awaits me and my two girls starting tomorrow. Not normally a location for an extended holiday, the trip came about last minute as I will be there anyway Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week for meetings, and with Monday a national holiday here, we concocted a plan to all go and make the most of two weekends. The first of which we will stay with some friends in a pretty little town called Madison in New Jersey and the second weekend we have booked a hotel in Long Beach, which is on Long Island’s South Shore.

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Jun 7

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British Summer Time

I long gave up taking shorts back home with me on my visits as they never made it out of my case, but on recommendation I threw a pair in this time and they got a good airing with the weather well into the 70’s on the East Sussex coast as I spent a few days, mostly outside, with my son and his grandparents.

The trip was rounded off with a few pints and a curry in Bexley Village with some old mates on Sunday night. We bumped into a certain Jimmy Bullard in the Kings Head who was stood at the bar supping on a pint. The £50k a week Hull City player ended the season on loan at Paul Jewell’s Ipswich where he shined alongside Lee Martin.

Bullard’s family are local and he actually owns the One Bell in Crayford.
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Jun 7

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Travelogue: Hastings Old Town

During my few days at my parents in East Sussex, my Dad suggested a ride along the coast to Hastings. I used to visit years ago as I had a mate who’s parents lived in nearby Fairlight. My Mum and Dad, as I learnt, used to visit regularly on their Lambretta in the 60’s.  

We drove into Hastings from Eastbourne and along the sea front heading east making sure we had our doors locked. There was a thriving business in scaffolding, most of which was stopping buildings from collapsing and wooden boards, and little had changed it seemed since William Conqueror showed up with his bow and arrow looking for a ruck. 

The burnt out pier remains but just last month a heritage lottery grant was approved for work to start on it’s restoration. We drove on past Warrior Square with it’s statue of Queen Victoria, who wouldn’t have been amused at it’s unkempt look. 
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May 24

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The tale of two hotels

Home after a long weekend in Georgia. The trip was planned to meet up with friends, who are attending a wedding this Saturday. It was great to see them again. We met them whilst he was on a work secondment in Chicago 5 years ago and we have stayed close and have both added a child to the mix.

We did have one night on our own though, so we chose to stay in the very agreeable Buckhead at the St Regis on Friday and were taken aback by how majestic the hotel was. After a Saturday morning sat by the adorable swimming pool which resembled a roman bath, and followed by an afternoon of shopping at Lenox Square, we drove the 40 miles north to Lake Lanier (photo), a vast 38,000 acre lake that is Atlanta’s main source of water.

We arrived at Lake Lanier Islands in the dark so failed to see it’s beauty but sadly what we did get to see was our cockroach infested lake house villa. Our friends, who were on route from the airport had booked it and the plan was that we’d crash with them.
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May 19

Hot-lanta

I’m back off island tomorrow afternoon as the family and I head for Atlanta. Until late Saturday afternoon we will stay in Buckhead, the Beverly Hills of the East as it is known by people that have probably never been to Beverly Hills, although to be fair Buckhead has a lot more going for it than downtown Atlanta.

Saturday evening we are driving about 40 miles north to a place called Lake Sidney Lanier to meet some very good friends from the UK who are staying at the big lodge-type resort there for a week in readiness for a wedding the following weekend. We are going to crash with them until we leave on Tuesday and no doubt drink and eat like bandits.
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May 5

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New baby

I’m sat in the lounge at Vancouver airport with my new baby. A sparkly white iPad2. I dont think I’ve been this excited since, well my last baby! My flight isn’t until 11.15pm and I’m making the most of my last glimpses of Vancouver before the night creeps in outside.

Inside grey-haired men in suits cheer the cities ice hockey team, The Canucks onto victory. There were stories of long delays at security following Bin Laden’s killing earlier in the week but the airport is just as dead.
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Apr 29

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Vancouver

Tomorrow I am off to British Columbia, Canada’s western most province and it’s largest city Vancouver. Although I am still hoping to be a tourist, my schedule has been engulfed with work meetings. I am there with work, so there isn’t much I can complain about there.
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Apr 17

Travelogue – Coral Gables, Florida

I rather like Coral Gables, just minutes from Miami Airport in one direction, minutes from South Beach in the other. It’s a fusion of grandoise Spanish hacienda’s, short skirted Latino’s and whacky Miamian’s where roads and pavements are designed and not layed. 

Coral Gables was developed in the 1920’s when George Merrick planned an American Venice complete with canals and lakes. What Coral Gables got was one of America’s first ever fully-planned residential communities and certainly the work that Merrick did has stood the test of time. Coral Gables is also home to the University of Miami’s 15,000 students which keeps the downtown coffee shops busy.

Downtown entices with some nice shops, although mostly don’t require you to actually go inside unless you are after an expensive pair of earrings or a body wax. There are planty of restaurants and cafe’s plus many galleries to nose in. The Actor’s Playhouse Theatre take centre spot of Coral Gables’ Miracle Mile, the town’s main thoroughfare and if the local Mediterranean architecture needs some explaining then there is also the Coral Gables Museum to explain all.
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Apr 9

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Dog sledding

“Do you like rollercasters?” Our musher shouted to us as we were swept through a twisting trail of powdered snow and ice pulled by 10 steadfast huskies at 25 mph.

On Thursday we had a wonderful experience here in the Colorado mountains choosing to spend my other half’s special birthday on a breathtaking 2-hour dog sled ride before dinner courtesy of a fantastic musher called Theresa and 10 powerful Alaskan sled dogs led from the back by blind Roy.

Dog sledding has been around since the 10th century and was once an Olympic sport. Dogs are bred for endurance and strength and a 6-mile race is considered a sprint, and a 600-mile race more common.

At Krabloonik at the foot of the Snowmass mountain over 200 dogs have been bred and trained to either race competively or run tourists through a 10-mile trail during the winter months in all weathers.

I am not a known dog lover but seeing the howling and excitable dogs living outside in rows of kennels on arrival was slightly disturbing and when Googling Krabloonik when planning the day plenty of detractors came up, however many more, who are probably much more sympathetic than me approved of the way these working dogs are looked after by the long-time owner Dan MacEachen and his many staff, and local newspapers report continuing improvements to the facility.
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Apr 5

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Miami Children’s Museum

On Mother’s Day we went to the Miami Children’s Museum which is located on a landfill island called Watson Island on Biscayne Bay, about 15 minutes from where we were staying in Coral Gables. As Americans celebrate Mother’s Day in May and we were there early, the museum was empty.

It is almost 10 years old but the contemporarily designed museum had a very new feel to it and it was a load of fun. Inside there were 14 different galleries with hundreds of interactive exhibits and the museum was a real source of learning and stimulation.

Our 17-month old had her fingers and eyes everywhere as we made our way around the two-storey building. There was a lot of product placement and sponsorship, of course we were in America but the Publix supermarket, Bank of America and the Carnival cruise liner didn’t take away from the fun. My favourites (I’m allowed favourites aren’t I?) were the Art Museum and the Music Studio, where you could lay down your own track.

If you’re ever in this part of Florida with kids, I fully recommend a visit. It was $12 per person including kids over 1.

Mar 31

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Special birthday

Next Thursday is my youthful other half’s birthday. Banned from actually saying the number, we will celebrate her ‘special birthday’ instead for the whole week starting on Saturday when we fly to Miami and spend two days including Mother’s Day in Coral Gables, a place we briefly visited last year.

Then on Monday we fly onto Colorado and end up with a drive to the ski resort of Aspen where we spend the week. I can’t ski because of my knee operation last September but it was my snow loving-other-half’s birthday wish that she attempted to get in some late season birthday snow, and looking at the report’s I’ll think she’ll be lucky.
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Mar 15

Japan

 

My work involves understanding and protecting our clients from all kinds of risk, both those created by man and mother nature. Our office is always awash with talk of natural catastrophes. Fault lines, hurricane forecasting, flood plains, tsunami models, tornado radar detection, volcano activity…. all pretty scary stuff.

There are many ways to anticipate and diminish risk, but no way to eradicate events like Friday’s. Earthquake’s don’t give any warnings like say hurricanes do and one can only imagine what it must feel like to survive a huge quake and realise the tsunami warning sirens are piercing the dusty sky.

Like always, I’ve been glued to the coverage from Japan, a country I have visited and loved for all of it’s quirkiness, history and it’s gracious people.

The ongoing nuclear crisis is somewhat overshadowing the human tragedy caused by Friday’s double disaster, which pulverized Japan’s northeastern coastline. More than 10,000 people are estimated dead. Some of the footage is horrific and my heart sinks when I watch it. Japan is a proud and sagacious nation used to disaster and my heart goes out to those poor people.

Mar 6

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Oregon smoregon

My other half left earlier today for a work trip to Portland, Oregon leaving me and little ‘un in charge. This has annoyed me tremendously. Not because we have been left home alone but because she is visiting an American state I’ve never been to!

My other half had a target of doing all 50 states before a certain landmark birthday, but unless she jumps a greyhound bus from Portland and embarks on a serious road trip, she is rapidly running out of time. I’m pleased to say she trails me in the race to the 50, I have done 38 at the last count but have never ventured to the pacific north-west.
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Feb 7

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Travelogue: Stowe, Vermont

At the moment Vermont is wrapped in snow, but it is the green mountains that give this American state it’s name – from the French verts monts. Many ski regions don’t have much to offer in the summer, just sullen and abandoned mountains, but not Vermont. It’s mountains lure many summer vacationers to come and explore hiking paths that run throughout the entire 160 mile-length of the state.

Vermont is normally classified as New England, and it is the only state in the region that has no access to the ocean, but it would be some kind of heaven if there were golden beaches and waves as well as it’s serene countryside, dramatic mountains, see-through streams and little towns each conspicious with their own church steeple and clapboard houses.

We drove down from Montreal to Stowe, which was about two and a half hours. Before we set off I’d downloaded some picturesque drives that we could deviate onto, so to get to see some of the renowned Vermont countryside I had heard about, but there was no need because all roads were basked by beauty.

We passed lots of small farms keeping such secrets as wine, cheese, maple syrup and apples. We toyed with stopping at one of the small towns alongside Lake Champlain but didn’t but did eventually succumb to the Boyden Valley Winery, about 40 miles before Stowe on Route 104. We were welcomed like old friends and ate cheese, and drunk all they had to offer, but we particularly liked their desert wine and bought a bottle of Vermont Ice Wine, which we polished off later in the holiday.

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Feb 4

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Unexpected

I found myself back in the UK today as I attempt to sort some unexpected family stuff out this weekend. By rights I should be in Nashville at a Superbowl weekend with some mates but my hand was forced into bagging that because on the back of being out of the office at a conference in Fort Lauderdale most of this week, I then had a client coming to Bermuda on Monday to specifically see me. Now I won’t be there as I don’t fly back to Bermuda until Tuesday. That was tricky phone call let me tell you.
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Jan 31

Ft Lauderdale

Off to Fort Lauderdale in Florida this morning for a work conference. I was there 3 years ago but didn’t get a lot of time to stray outside mostly though because the weather was a shocker. Looking at my itinerary I don’t reckon on much exploring time this week and if I’m honest any free-time I think will be used for sleeping because that has become a scarce commodity.

After Saturday’s Rochdale postponement Chris Powell’s second game as the gaffer will be back at The Valley tomorrow night with Colchester the visitors.

The away game on New Year’s Day in hindsight was probably a nail in Parky’s coffin but to the present and the U’s have top scorer David Mooney in their ranks still on loan from Reading.

The Irishman got the U’s winner on Friday night inflicting defeat on Peterborough to put them on level points with us. Mooney has 10 goals, 3 less than our top scorer Bradley Wright-Phillips!

Jan 30

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A Christmas story

Christmas is already feeling like a distant memory but there were some great ones from our trip home, one in particular that I’d like to share was the Torchlit Parade we joined in on Christmas Eve.

The torchlit parade takes place every Christmas Eve between the Oxfordshire villages of Streatley and Goring. At dusk people walk downhill from both villages and cross the small bridge that crosses the tapered River Thames and then gather in a vast meadow with a huge bonfire to sing carols.

Seeing thousands of people holding hessian and wax torches was a wonderful visual, especially with the snow cover on the ground. My son loved it but tended to wave his torch around a bit like it was a sparkler and we did well to escape the parade without the Fire Brigade being called!
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Jan 17

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My Top 5 2010 Favourite Places

Favourite places can be anything but these are all places that meant something to me last year whether visited once or often.

My Top Five Favourite Places in 2010:

1. Vermont
Serene countryside, dramatic mountains, see-through streams, tiny towns with church steeples and clapboard house, and lots of small farms keeping such secrets as wine, cheese, maple syrup and apples.
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Jan 12

My Top 5 2010 Hotels

I love hotels. If I could have someone to pack and unpack me then I would actually just live in them, moving every few weeks when I wanted a change of view. My current job means I don’t travel anywhere near as much as I used to, but I could still pick 5 hotels that I loved in 2010.

My Top Five Favourite Hotels in 2010

1. Rosewood Mayakoba, Riviera Maya, Mexico
I have bored you many times about how much I love the Rosewood Hotels group. This one between Cancun and Tulum is built around miles of emerald coloured lagoon waters. The hotel could not be faulted from the tequila lounge to it’s sunken hot tub in your very own garden.
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Dec 28

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Bad planning

As Christmas has come and officially gone (although I’m still wishing people ‘Happy Christmas’ because I don’t go back to work until the 4th) I have got increasingly pisseed off that the Brighton game is tomorrow night when 95% of the countries football matches were today. Why are we playing tomorrow? It’s not on the box. There wasn’t some world championship long jump event at the Withdean today was there?

Three times in the last couple of days I have passed within 750 metres of the Withdean, but tomorrow night at kick off I will be tucking into a scrumptious indian take away at my brother’s in Shoreditch.

Yes I know, bad planning on my part and not for the first time this season either.
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Dec 25

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Merry Christmas

 

This is Wallingford in Oxfordshire, where we are spending today with my other half’s family. Wherever you are, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. Eat, drink and be merry.

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Dec 20

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Home for Christmas

Well hopefully. I have a worst travel record than the captain of The Titanic. BA managed to get the Bermuda flight into Gatwick this morning, a feat I hope it can repeat on Wednesday night.

Once landed on Thursday morning we will drive the relative hop into Kent to pick up my son, that’s if two junctions along the M25 can be considered a hop? We then travel up into Oxfordshire to decamp at my defacto sister-in-law’s until Boxing Day. Snow is expected in the Wallingford area, which is where all my other half’s family (within a 5 mile radius) live.

I have always loved Christmas Eve. Whether it was standing on tip-toes on my parents landing for hours looking up into the sky to spot Santa before being forced to bed, or out drinking with my mates, or wrapping presents for kids, it has always held an real sense of excitement for me. 
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Dec 8

Christmas chill

I have my annual bout of man flu contracted from a severe lack of sleep and staring into the bottom of too many empty glasses. Despite me eulogising the virtues of the Bermudian weather last week, it has got decidedly chilly and the temperature is expected to bottom out at below 50 (10°C) at the weekend.

Contributing to my sorry condition was this last weekend in New York, where the winter has truly settled and I did myself no favours by getting wrapped up in a humungous night out on Thursday. My daughter must have been very proud of me as she crawled around the hotel room bathroom while I clung, sweating, onto the toilet seat Friday morning. Added to this, work has finally taken off again, after too long of a quiet spell.

My punishment Friday was lining up in Macy’s waiting to see Santa Claus. I couldn’t look him in the eye when he asked me if I’d been good but he was kind enough to let me sit on his knee.
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Nov 3

Elementary my dear Benson

Swindon Town 0 Charlton Athletic 3
I was on the plane for the whole length of the game last night travelling back to Bermuda from Gatwick. The brilliant new Sherlock Holmes BBC series had taken my mind off what might be happening at the County Ground but once we touched down a fair few scenario’s played in my mind in the time it took to turn the mobile on and for it to obtain a signal but as Twitter burst into life the first few messages at the top of the page told me all I needed to know!

Thanks also to those of you that sent me the final result directly. But what a fantastic result and on paper probably the best one of the season and fine revenge too, after the heartbreak of the play-off’s.

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Oct 27

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Rosewood to take over Tucker’s Point Hotel

If you are a regular reader of mine you will know that I have long been in love with the Rosewood Hotel Group, in my humble opinion the best luxury brand hotels in the world.

There are only 19 owned and/or managed Rosewood Hotels, and I have on my bucket list to visit all of them. I am currently stuck on five but then completely out of the blue as we sat on the bed last night at the Tucker’s Point Hotel watching the local news, that increased to six!
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Oct 17

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The World cruise liner visits Bermuda

The World Cruise liner arrived in Bermuda on Friday for a weekend’s stay for it’s residents. As part of it’s 100-port tour residents strolled the streets of Hamilton this weekend before stopping in St George’s for a day Monday and then heading onto America’s east coast, the Carribean, South America and then Antarctica for Christmas.

Bermuda is a known cruise-liner destination but usually exclusively for weekenders or the mass American tourist market, but The World is different in that it is actually lived on by residents who have paid anything from $600,000 for a small apartment to $13,500,000 for a 6 bedroom, 6 bathroom 4,100 sq ft penthouse suite. For those of you with your eyebrows raised at how ridiculous that price sounds, then it has never been sold and is still on the market.

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Oct 3

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Travelogue: Montreal

The first thing to note about Montreal is that it’s the 3rd largest French speaking city in the world after Paris and less obviously Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It seems virtually everyone speaks French but gladly for us L’Anglais most are more than happy to join you in the English tongue, unlike their cousins across the Channel.

The struggle between French and English has been a constant theme throughout Montreal’s history. The French flag was first planted here in 1603. Then the British and French fought over this land but as British loyalists flooded over the border from America both Quebec City and Montreal fell to the British in the 1760’s. The French and Brits lived together but anger and warring was never far from the surface.

Despite this Montreal flourished as a city. The world wars had no obvious effect on Montreal or Quebec as it grew monumentally both economically and by population. By the 1950’s over 1 million people lived here as the Francophiles continued on with their lives regardless and in 1976 Montreal hosted the summer Olympics.

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Sep 13

Heaven is Whole Foods

Our last full day in Chicago and I could move back tomorrow.

We have tried to save today for doing nothing but walking and wandering around downtown. Tonight we have dinner at friends, then tomorrow we are up early and out and back to Bermuda. It hasn’t been enough time especially when you lose two whole days travelling. There used to be a direct flight from Chicago to Bermuda but no longer, which means we leave the hotel here in the morning at 7am, and don’t get home indoors to gone 9.30pm.
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Sep 9

Hello Chicago. It’s been too long

We have arrived in Chicago to spend the weekend visiting old friends and old memories. It has been way too long since I was last here, just over a year in fact. I have already made a promise not to be away from my surrogate home for so long next time.

We plan on having drinks tonight in one of my favourite places, the discreet but vibrant bar in the Peninsula Hotel called simply The Bar.

Over the weekend we hope to catch up with as many people as possible, I’ll shoot into the office tomorrow as well as pop round to my apartment to meet a new rental agent as it needs to go back on the market in November.

From the airport the sky is clear, so it won’t be long before the cities skyscrapers are welcoming us.

Sep 6

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Travelogue: Riviera Maya

Archaeologists believe that Mayan people first came to the Yucatan in 2400 BC. They were a clever lot the Mayans. They were farmers, astronomers, architects, artists and innovators and that was just in the morning.

They lived large, building cities with plazas surrounded by huge temples to celebrate the lives of leaders. They created a calendar, almost certainly one of the oldest still documented. The ancient Maya were essentially spiritual timekeepers, counting ticks of the day by means of sun, moon, stars and planets. Sadly the calendar reaches completion on December 23rd, 2012, which was as good as reason as any to visit a couple of months back.

The Mayans created a high society but while they were too busy lording it, the Toltecs stole in from central Mexico and collapsed the Mayan empire with the help of the desitute and made base camp at what was later to become Chichen Itza. It was these early Aztecs that set about building many of the incredible structures that can be seen today beginning just after the 10th century.

Finally the Itzaes who themselves were forced out by invaders left the north coast of Mexico and pitched their 12th century tents in Chichen Itza forcing aside the Toltecs and became rulers themselves of the Yucatan for a couple of hundred years as their influence grew south and west.

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Aug 12

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Rowdy Tampa Bay

I made it back to Bermuda last night but in line with my recent travel exploits, my luggage didn’t. Pain in the arse but less so coming home than going, except I couldn’t have a shave today so I hope my new client likes the George Michael look!

Just 18 hours in Tampa but it was certainly worth the effort. Good meetings and a great dinner in a place called Ocean Prime. Later in a bar called something Martini I was bewildered to see so many people out on a Tuesday night. I had an excuse as I was drowning a lot of sorrow, but I wondered what the good looking folk of Tampa were all going to do when they got up the next day.
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Aug 9

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Travel bug

‘Hurricane’ Colin turned out to be nothing more than a damp squib yet that didn’t stop the majority of the airlines cancelling yesterday and today’s flights – clearly no access to t’internet at American Airlines HQ to check the bloody weather forecast.
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