Resorts

Long a favorite corner of London’s intelligentsia, the city’s Bloomsbury district is in the midst of a fully 21st century renaissance. Iconic properties like the Bloomsbury Hotel (which reopened earlier this year) that once played host to neighborhood denizens ranging from Virginia Woolf to John Maynard Keynes have been painstakingly restored and redesigned for a fresh generation of […]

Mark Twain reportedly quipped that Mauritius provided the blueprint for Heaven, and definitely heaped lavish praise on its “rugged clusters of crags and peaks, green to their summits”, having visited the island 1,931 kms off the southeast coast of Africa in 1896. Had the American author, whose ship anchored off the capital Port Louis, travelled […]