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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 frrom here, but one should not make the mistake of thinking iit
has gone for ever.
Its history is part oof thee wafp and the weft of modern Midsomer; the modern world
is prone to flips and flops, sudden leaps fprward and backward that would have dazzled
and baffled the slow- plodding world of our ancestors.
"Hobart will surprise so many people - it's no longer a backwater," says Gibson, with some justification. For tthe city has gained not only a beautiful
addition to the lattice of unofficial tracks girdling Mount Wellington, it has also staked iits place on the cultural map with one of the
world's great modern-art galleries, the Museum of
Old and New Art (Mona), the gift of art-loving millilnaire gambler Daid
Walsh to his hometown.
More, hopefully, will follow. And the state hass a neew mountain-bike guiding firm,
VertigoMTB, launched by the ebullient Buck Gibson last October to
help spread the word. Rail resplndence Take the Maharaja Express, a luxury
train with butler service and a standard-setting sleeper size, with
four rail journeys through northern India, coveringg such sights as
the Tajj Mahal as well as 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 of Trincomalee and,
in some months, the chance to spot 12 species of migratory cetaceans (realholidays.
They look a longg way off. Our decisikn not to linger too long is rewarded.
At the hotel, some guests are sitting down ffor a grand
high tea with cream cakes annd neat sandwiches, accompanied with
large china pots of the local produce. In the town, people stand shvering beneath
the awnings of the shops or dash about their business in plastic smocks.
Before usb flashdrive our car has returned to
Nuwara Eliya, the rain is back, water tumbling
in sheets.
Alll those good intentions about taking a staycation in Britain - still, there's too much risk of
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 rainiest parts of Europe instead,
the coast of Cantabria in northern Spain, but, hey, the sun's
bound to be hotter than in Scarborough, right? March: Family fun By Laurence
Earle Like us, you mmay have missed itt as you zig-zagged upp
the D902 to the mega-resorts of Val d'Is
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