The Wife of Bath

Kent

One of the UK’s best northern Spanish restaurants isn’t what you expect to find at a six-bedroom B&B in a sleepy Kent village. Unless you knew it were there, you’d never find it. Home to a couple of quaint riverside pubs, a haberdasher and two small restaurants, Wye hasn’t (yet)...read more

Rosewood Beijing

Beijing

Cao Xueqin’s saga Dream of the Red Chamber is considered the Chinese novel, and it is also the scarlet thread which runs through this ultra-luxe hotel in Beijing’s CBD. There is a leatherbound copy in each of the 283 bedrooms and exotic art inspired by the story throughout. As with...read more

Waldorf Astoria Trianon Palace

France

September’s Ryder Cup takes place at Le Golf National, just outside Paris. It’s the first time the tournament has taken place in France and as such, they’ve chosen a course worthy of the occasion. Opened in 1990, it’s new and fresh, yet mature enough to prove a challenge when Europe...read more

King Street Townhouse

Manchester

The clock strikes five. The bell rings out over the rooftops of downtown Manchester from the Town Hall, audible in the attic room at King Street Townhouse, one of the city’s more upmarket boutique hotel offerings. For a bird’s-eye view of the bell tower itself, you can take a dip...read more

Sant Francesc

Mallorca

There are few better places to embrace summer on the Mediterranean than the balmy Balearics. And this converted 19th-century mansion in the beating heart of Palma is our top pick for a trip this month. You’ll find it in an atmospheric square in the old town, where apricot-hued houses come...read more

Nobu Hotel

Ibiza

In one of the most unlikely successful pairings since we were introduced to truffle custard, Robert De Niro and Nobu Matsuhisa have joined forces to bring the world a new breed of hotel. Nobu Hotel Ibiza Bay is one of nine Nobu outposts launched in the past 18 months, with...read more

17 Farrier Street

Deal

When the weather is fair, there’s no finer place to appreciate Britain’s bucolic beauty than on the south coast. Many of the old port towns here are in the grip of gentrification, and its subsequent influx of excellent restaurants and bars. Hotels, however, are slow to catch up, so we’re...read more

Castello di Casole

A short drive from Siena and the thundering hooves of the famous biannual Palio horse race is the pin-drop peace and quiet of this luxurious Tuscan retreat. Set within 40ha of vineyards and olive groves, it was home to a string of movie stars and Italian nobility in the Sixties...read more

Watergate Bay Hotel

Newquay

The surf's up. Sea birds swoop across the crests of waves tumbling onto a flat crescent of a beach. It could be Australia, yet this is England – a wild part of the South West where steep, craggy cliffs plunge into the sapphire seas of the Cornwall Coast. Guests of...read more