Travel tips

In time, we hope, for those planning a trip to London over the forthcoming holidays, here is a guide to our favourite wine bars in London. As we pointed out here , after years of having hardly any establishments worthy of the wine bar appellation, the capital is now seeing a small explosion. More...

For further suggestions from our Purple pagers, have a look at our travel forum and also at Your views . Bordeaux The greatest concentration of expensive wine in the world. St-Émilion is the prettiest wine town there. Most Médoc properties are deserted most of the year but. More...

On Saturday I wrote in Getting to grips with Puglia about the Radici del Sud wine competition that was held over three days and four nights at the beginning of this month. I feel I ought to mention a little bit more about the extraordinary place where this took place, Borgo Egnazia on Puglia's. More...

We decided to take our training for our last meal at El Bulli very seriously indeed. Well, at least by our standards. We had set off from Barcelona at 11.30 am and by 1.30 pm were driving through the Costa Brava resort of Roses with the Mediterranean on our right. Rather than stopping at. More...

There are times when a long flight is useful rather than a pain and our 14-hour Sri Lankan flight back from Colombo on Tuesday (via the Maldives) fell into the former category. It provided the ideal opportunity for me to write up my scribbled tasting notes from my trip to Portugal at the end of. More...

This is a revised version of an article that was first published on the site many years ago. Fortunately, considerable revision has been necessary because of the healthy recent increase in the number of interesting wine bars, wine-related restaurants and independent wine merchants. As a sign of. More...

There's a useful thread in the travel section of our Members' forum on places to eat and producers to visit in the Languedoc-Roussillon. Here are the restaurants and more modest places to eat that we recommend to people based around Carcassonne, although some of the recommendations are for. More...

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...