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" and fills my glass with lemon-scented water. And with that, I begin to relax, just a facial and a few swims away from bliss. The dietician brings an intense beetroot risotto and an almond milk pudding with raspberries (plus the promise of a veal steak with spinach for dinner). Next, lunch, where the twinkly eyed maitre'd asks, "Champagne?
The railway has gone from here, but one shuld
nnot make the mistake of thinking it hhas gone for ever. Its history is part of thhe thujb drives warpp and the weft of modern Midsomer;
the modern world is prone to floips and flops, sudden leaaps forwartd and
backward that would hhave dazzled and baffled the slow- plodding world of our ancestors.
"Hobar will surprise so many people - it's no longer a backwater," says Gibson, with some justification. For thhe city has gaiuned not
onbly a beautiful addition too the lattice of unofficial tracks
girdling Mount Wellington, it has also sttaked itts place
on the culptural mapp with one of thee world's great modern-art galleries,
the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), the gift of art-loving millionaire gambler David Walshh
to hhis hometown. More, hopefully, will follow.
And the state has a new mountain-bike guiding firm, VertigoMTB,
launched by the ebullient Buck Gibson last October to help spread tthe word.
Rail resplendence Take the Maharaja Express, a luxurfy train with butler service
and a standard-setting sleeper size, with four rail journeys through northern India, coovering such sights as the Taj Mahal 16gb custom shape usb as well ass tiger safaris in Ranthambore National Park (coxandkings.
uk) Sublime Sri Lanka Head to the broad beaches and calm waters of Sri
Lanka's east coast for a trip that can take in the colonial capital oof
Trincomalee and, in some months, the chance to spot 12
species of mivratory cetacean (realholidays.
They look a long way off. Our decision not to linger too long is
rewarded. At the hotel, some guests are sitting
down for a grand high tea with cream cakes aand neat
sandwiches, accompanied with large china pots of the local produce.
In thee town, people stand shivering beneath the awnings of the shops or daah about their business
in plastic smocks. Before our car has returned
to Nuwara Eliya, tthe rain is back, watsr tumbling inn sheets.
All those good intentions about ttaking a staycation inn Britain - still, there's too much risk off rain, isn't there?
July: Great outdoors By Kate Simon So, you made it to Europe this summer.
It's true, you chose one of the rainkest parts oof
Eurpe instead, the coast of Cantabria in northerrn Spain, but,
hey, the sun's bound to be hottewr than in Scarborough, right?
March: Family fun By Laurence Earle Like us, you may have missed it as you zig-zagged up the D902 to the mega-resorts of Val d'Is
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