Palma de Mallorca
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Palma is a charmer. Mallorca's seaside capital offers a lovely jumble of modernista and medieval architecture, mirrored in a food scene that mixes classics with cooking's new wave. Rather than rushing past Palma on your way to the boutique-y chic of Pollensa, to sensual, self-regarding Soller, or even to tacky Magaluf, spend some time in the capital, where you will find some stellar places to eat and drink.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 23, 2008
New wave
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The guitarist on stage at Beijing's Mao Lifehouse club wears an enormous furry Pac-Man mask. He throws theatrical rock-star poses, their dramatic effect a little undercut by the fact that he's backing a tiny girl in a flowing white dress singing the cutesy theme tune to a mid-80s Chinese children's cartoon. The effect is bizarre, like seeing Pete Townshend playing the theme from Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds. But the audience love it, and everyone except me seems to be word-perfect.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: March 11, 2008
15 Caribbean gems
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Jade Mountain St Lucia
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Date Published: February 08, 2008
Weird and wonderful New York
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Homogenised, standardised, regularised. We think of the food, clothes and life in America as a bland homage to big box malls, with Starbucks, McDonald's and Gaps on every block. That might be the case elsewhere, but New York City is anything but. The quirky, off-beat and plain madcap have always been cherished here. A chamber concert hall floating under the Brooklyn bridge, a one-car drive-in, a shipping container that at the push of a button turns into a trendy cafe, an island that's straight out of Fifties New England, a dive bar for show tune aficionados … New Yorkers are old hands at letting their imaginations run wild.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: December 05, 2007
Top 10 Paris hotels
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1. In pod we trust: Everland
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 14, 2007
Me and my travels
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MY FAVOURITE HOTEL IS...
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: November 05, 2007
Eat like a local in ... Tokyo
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With heavy, well-fed steps, the Michelin man has come to Tokyo.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: October 29, 2007
