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Four Istanbul hotels: a spectacular suite, an efficient stopover, exceptional hospitality and a cocktail that became a minor engineering project.Choosing between Istanbul hotels can easily become part of the journey itself. Stay in Etiler and the city feels modern, vertical and distant from the postcard version most visitors come to see. Move to th

I came to Turkey for a business meeting in Ankara. A few days of annual leave turned the journey into a solo detour through İzmir and Pamukkale, one reluctantly abandoned plan for Ephesus, an exceptionally good hotel redemption and, eventually, a bowl of perfectly chilled fruit beside the Aegean.Ankara, eventuallyThe official reason for the journey

Martinis, Millionaires and One Very Drunk Brit at Breakfast At midnight, fireworks opened above the palm trees of Monte Carlo. I was standing on the balcony of the Casino de Monte-Carlo with a drink in my hand. Behind me, people were gambling sums that could have financed my entire trip. In front of me, flashes of colour reflected from the surrou

A conference in Seville was waiting. The Atlantic had other plans. At eleven on a Sunday morning in November, I was swimming in the Atlantic. Behind me, Praia da Falésia stretched beneath cliffs that looked as if someone had cut open the earth and exposed its colours: chalky white, ochre, rust and deep orange. A few people walked along the waterl