This week’s dream
Pula, Croatia
James Joyce hated Pula. The Croatian city was the main naval base of the Austro-Hungarian empire when he was exiled to it in 1904 by his employer, the Berlitz language school - a "naval Siberia", he called... [continued]
Getting the flavour of...
Atlas and Agadir
The highway from Marrakesh to the seaside resort of Agadir in Morocco is a dull and often traffic-clogged affair. But take the old road across the Atlas mountains instead and you are in for one of the great rides of... [continued]
Bauhaus hotel
Dessau is a "mecca for fans of modernist architecture", says Hans Kundnani in the Observer. This otherwise "nondescript" post-industrial city on the banks of the Elbe in eastern Germany was home to the Bauhaus - the design school that led... [continued]
Belle Besançon
Few foreigners have heard of Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region of eastern France and the birthplace of Victor Hugo. Yet it is one of the most beautiful historic cities in the country, says Lizzy Davies in the Guardian.... [continued]
Hotel of the week
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep shares its name with Raymond Chandler's "genre-defining" detective novel – but the comparisons stop there – says The Times. Still, the book's "no-nonsense" protagonist, Philip Marlowe, would doubtless approve of a hotel that offers... [continued]
