HOUSE OF BASHKA
An insider's curation of lesser-known boutique hotels and independent brands. Honest hotel reviews, shoppable style edits. Beautiful places, beautiful things.
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Why Castel Badia in South Tyrol is one of my new favourite hotels (opens the original)
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Castel Badia wasn’t top of my list for a Dolomites trip I was planning earlier this year. Honestly, I didn’t know much about it (even though I’d received plenty of press releases) and was riffling through the usual spa suspects to cobble together a road trip, that involved limited driving. It was vaguely on my radar, so I enquired. ‘You will love it’ replied the PR, ‘I really think you’ll love it.’ There are so many beautiful hotels out there, you can become a little numb to it as a travel write
My little West Dorset guide (opens the original)
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Looking back at the guides I’ve written for Condé Nast Traveller, Collagerie, Country Life etc. and it’s wild how quickly restaurants and hotels change now, even in the sleepiest region of them all, West Dorset – a symptom of our struggling hospitality sector with debilitating bills etc…anywayy… Fo
Hotels to escape to as a couple (or with a bestie) (opens the original)
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I may write extensively on family travel but let’s be frank, a week away with children is pure magic for bonding, the memory bank etc. But it’s a far cry from the conventional definition of a holiday, a break, a breather.I travelled all over Sicily for a month heavily pregnant (sick-as-a-sailor) with a 1 and 3 year old, and felt I’d really crushed our nomadic routine and my own survival by the end. But it was precisely that – survival driving me through the noisy wake ups in unfamiliar beds and
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