So, late last week, I was just hanging at the local airport waiting for my flight to the Cook Islands. I love people watching at airports and I had plenty of time to soak it all in as my flight had been delayed. "Yep", I thought, "I’ll probably miss my connecting International flight, as I stand ...
La Terraza de Larios is calling your name
María Luisa Valcarce is Concierge at Room Mate Larios, which opened in Málaga, Spain in 2007. Room Mate Hotels' global philosophy is that the best way to travel is to stay with friends "with unique personalities, who take us by the hand in each city and with whom we share a way of life". Room Mate ...
Escape the city and relax like it’s 1923
Journeys to Come’s Jack Walden recently spent the night as a guest of the Lancemore Group at the historic Werribee Mansion Hotel & Spa. Opulence, elegance and stylish glamour are captured in the transformed Italianate-style bluestone estate of Werribee’s Mansion Hotel & Spa—ready for your escape to the edge of Melbourne. I’d been dying to spend the ...
Riding the French Alps
I’ve been incredibly fortunate to travel a lot, both within Australia and overseas, on trips with and without my bike. My favourite overseas cycling adventure would have to be the French countryside about 600km south east of Paris. This region of France has the most stunning and challenging mountains, including l’Alpe d’Huez and Mont Ventoux. ...
The most beautiful coast in Portugal
In our Ask The Concierge this week we meet Patricia Marques, the Front Office Manager at Memmo Baleeira Hotel in Sagres, Portugal, that is part of the Design Hotels group. Patricia hails from a city called Almada, across the river from the capital of Lisbon. She moved to the south of Portugal, and to Sagres, ...