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Grantley Hall
Grantley Hall – the north’s grand new wellness mecca. To the Yorkshire Dales… for a country house experience founded on fitness, spa relaxation and fine cuisine.
Betwixt the Yorkshire Dales and Moors and close to Unesco World Heritage Site Fountains Abbey, the Grade-II-listed 17th-century Grantley Hall hotel and wellness retreat promises fine living with a three-pillar approach of fitness, spa and quality cuisine…
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Hampshire’s Heckfield Place
Country pursuits at the grand Heckfield Place hotel: The Hampshire haven has conjured a series of summer experiences…
It only opened last year but Heckfield Place – owned by Hong Kong-born American billionaire Gerald Chan… has become a Hampshire haven offering a hotel-farm experience that encourages guests to explore country pursuits…
The Telegraph
Zimbabwe
Paw Patrol. Life, and luxury, among the animal kingdom’s most majestic members.
It’s dusk, and a five-ton bull elephant walks gracefully past our dinner table. The giant animal, 10-foot high, barely registers us as we watch in awe, from just 10 yards away.
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Monkey Island
Historic Monkey Island in Bray-on-Thames transformed into a country-hotel estate
The former home of monks and aristocrats offers an uplifting – and intriguing – riverside escape.
The Telegraph
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No emails please, we’re on holiday:
It’s 6am and I am sitting on the chilly bathroom floor of a New York hotel, my laptop resting on the loo. My mobile is jammed under my chin and, as the conference call kicks in, I’m either whispering – so as not to wake my boyfriend...