Travel tips

Pinot Noir New Zealand 2010 has already begun today in Wellington and continues for the rest of the week. The nation's seaside capital city is currently host to a wide range of wine-loving foreigners, including my compatriots Oz Clarke, Tim Atkin, Jamie Goode and Neal Martin from the UK and James. More...

If ever you find yourself with a little time to spare in Zurich airport, you might take the short stroll to the Radisson Blu Hotel in the airport itself. There they have taken a towering leaf out of the book of Aureole in Las Vegas and in the lobby you will find  a 16-metre high glass tower. More...

At the end of last week I found myself in Bordeaux as a tourist, for practically the first time in my life, and I can thoroughly recommend the experience now that the city has been spruced up. Because it was freezing cold, I was glad that I had followed the advice of one of my travelling. More...

Personal recommendations are invaluable when it comes to places to stay, eat or buy wine - as is clear from the requests and generous and detailed responses in the Travel stuff section of our forum as well as from the places recommended in Your views . But there's a place for industry. More...

Here's a film of one of the oddest places I have ever spent a night.  I slept beautifully, by the way.  All will be explained in Nick's article tomorrow.      More...

I'm pretty inured to the charms of wine books, being lucky enough to be bombarded with them each autumn. But I am very taken by French Vineyard s by Patrick Hilyer, a new edition from Alastair Sawday's stable, or rather from his ecologically designed cottage/offices outside Bristol.. More...

On behalf of my adventurous older daughter, who had heard good things about the beaches there, I asked Miles Mossop of Tokara winery in South Africa for some pointers about travelling in Mozambique in south-east Africa. I thought they might be of use to purple pagers and, with Miles's permission,. More...

In today’s post comes the usual mixture of press releases and charity appeals, but one of the former stood out. It’s a postcard from the extremely attractive-looking Provençal hotel with which ex Hotel du Vin Robin Hutson is now involved. Admittedly, we have yet to visit Crillon Le Brave, but. More...

I couldn't resist filming this extraordinary setting for a recent birthday party of an old friend of mine: the Divinity School that is part of Oxford University's Bodleian Library (named after Sir Thomas Bodley).  This beautiful building was constructed between 1427 and 1483 and is. More...

Despite the early morning sunshine, my wife [that's me, probably fretting over this website - JR] was initially reluctant to accompany me on a brief pre-breakfast walk along the medieval ramparts of St-Paul de Vence, less than half an hour's drive from Nice airport. But within five minutes from. More...