Inspiring Travel Writing from Daniel Scott: Page 2 of 9
Articles by Daniel Scott: Page 2 of 9
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An Insider’s View of Bondi
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Daniel Scott
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Sydney
6.30am on a spring morning and I pull back the duvet in my North Bondi flat. Quickly, I throw on my running gear and am out of the door before my body can protest too loudly. Outside the dark of night is tinged with a milky grey. My breath billows...
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Houseboating on the Hawkesbury
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Daniel Scott
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Australia
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New South Wales
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Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
It's 6.15pm on an early Autumn evening and we are are put-putting straight into the heart of the sun set. The water around the boat is like molten gold, the black hills ahead of us back lit by yellow-white light and the sky is a rhapsody of fleecy...
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Cape Town
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Daniel Scott
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South Africa
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Cape Town and around
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Cape Town
To me, travelling can sometimes seem like a series of love affairs. There are places, like old loves, that I keep returning to, warmed by familiarity and certain that my affection for them will soon be rekindled. Then there are others that I come...
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Virgin Atlantic's Upper Class Suite
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Daniel Scott
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France
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Provence
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Like him or loathe him, there is usually a sense of freshness that accompanies a Richard Branson product. So it is with the Virgin Upper Class Suite, now available on all its long-haul routes across the Atlantic and to Australia, via Hong Kong. The...
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Melbourne in Style
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Daniel Scott
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Australia
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Victoria
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Melbourne
Now that I live by the beach, I have given up any pretensions to style that I might once have had. I am the epitome of a scruffy New South Welshman, “dressing” most days in board shorts and singlet. So when I recently received an...
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The Landmark
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Daniel Scott
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United Kingdom
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Greater London
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London
This is another London hotel that recalls the Empire and it is a little off the beaten track, adjacent to Marylebone Station. But its history – it was opened in 1899 as the last of Britain’s great railway hotels – is part of its charm, with stained-...
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Hotel Condes de Barcelona
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Daniel Scott
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Spain
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Catalunya
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Barcelona
The Hotel Condes de Barcelona is one of the city’s best located upper echelon hotels, situated in the core of the modernist Quadrat d’Or, on Passeig de Gracia just above the Ramblas. The two renovated 5 floor nineteenth-century palaces – facing each...
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The Regent Bangkok
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Daniel Scott
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Thailand
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Bangkok Region
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Bangkok
Although undeniably corporate in feel the box-like Regent Hotel was voted “best hotel in Asia” by readers of Conde Nast Traveller as recently as 2001. It has some ardent supporters too, such as US entrepreneur James Humble, who has been staying here...
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The Grand Hotel Terme
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Daniel Scott
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Italy
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Italian Lakes
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Lake Garda
You’d be hard pressed to find a classier, more comfortable hotel than this anywhere on the shores of Lake Garda. The Grand Hotel Terme certainly has one of Garda’s most enviable locations, planted right at the gates of the lake’s cutest old village...
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Grand Hyatt Seattle
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Daniel Scott
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United States
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Washington State
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Seattle
In spite of having had the misfortune of opening just prior to 9/11, with its devastating effect on the confidence of the American traveling public, the Grand Hyatt is nonetheless already challenging for the title of Seattle’s most luxurious pad....
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