Laid-back Marseillan can't claim to have the celeb clientele, glam bars and designer shops of its famous Riviera cousin, but that's why it's special Sex-kitten starlets are thin on the sun-seared ground. So are €6,000 cotton beach dresses with Mongolian fur trim, Lamborghini Gallardos ostentatiously parked in front of harbourside cafes, and gin-palace...
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Archive for July, 2009
The French port that’s like St Tropez before Bardot
Reader’s tips … Italy on the cheap
Winning tip: Dar Poeta, Trastevere, Rome The best pizza restaurant in Rome. It looks nothing from the outside, but you get a real taste for Italian food at its finest.
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Zen and the art of rural regeneration
The world's largest outdoor art festival has added a surreal twist to a swathe of central Japan and played a major part in revitalising an isolated, depopulated region. Danielle Demetriou reports The scene is pure postcard Japan. Layered mountain peaks shrouded in forests capped with smoky wisps of clouds and tiered rice paddies,...
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Bluegrass, Northumberland
With the exception of Guardian Travel Award winner Under the Thatch (specialist subject: online Welsh cottage rental), I don't think I have come across another website that has made me hyperventilate with excitement as much as Coastal Retreats has. The Newcastle-based cottage company, set up in 2001, has a portfolio of 29 properties...
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All aboard the time machine
From the heat of the footplate to private luxury, Marcel Theroux rolls with the rhythms of a steam engine on an epic train journey from Moscow to the White Sea Travelling by overnight train through Russia tops my personal list of unmissable journeys. The trains themselves are part of the pleasure
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