Inspiring Travel Writing from Jamie Dunford Wood: Page 3 of 24
Articles by Jamie Dunford Wood: Page 3 of 24
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Hotel Manfredi
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Lazio
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Rome
If you can afford or don’t appreciate the trendy space age look of the Hotel Art, go next door and take the old fashioned elevator to the 3rd floor and discover an 18 room hideaway, recently renovated and run with friendly enthusiasm, rare for Rome...
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Locanda Novecento
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Veneto Region
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Venice
This younger sibling of the Hotel Flora, the Locanda Novecento three bridges away just the other side of the Gritti, is run by the junior branch of the Romanelli family, of a generation more in tune with the hip-hotel culture and unashamedly...
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Hotel Monna Lisa
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Florence
In a less touristy but lively part of Florence's medieval inner city, the small Hotel Monna Lisa is an off the beaten track conversion of a 15th century Florentine Palazzo once belonging to the Neri family (St Filippo Neri was born in room 19 in...
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Montreux Palace
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Switzerland
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Vaud
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Montreux
This massive (240 room) and classic (1868 and 1906) hotel on the lakeside in Montreux (separated, however, by the main lakeside road), was a convalescent center for British army officers after the war, and wandering round the huge, silent, carpeted...
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Hotel Concordia
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Veneto Region
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Venice
There is just one luxury hotel which overlooks the greatest square of them all - Piazza San Marco - and that's Hotel Concordia. The facilities You will feel smug as you sip a cappuccino on your balcony and watch the seething, sweating, struggling...
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Oberkirch Hotel
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Germany
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Baden-Wurttemberg
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Freiburg
Small traditional 14th century townhouse hotel right on the main square of this delightful town, overlooking the spectacular Cathedral. Simple facilities, but full of charm and tradition, and it’s avoided the excesses of 70s and 80s modernization...
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Hotel Donjon
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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France
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Languedoc/ South West
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Carcassonne
Basic but comfortable character Inn within the old city walls. Old paintings, antiques and rugs amidst variously upholstered furnishings make for a comfortable old world feel in this most ancient of towns – albeit a rather Disney-fied one. But the...
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Hotel de la Bretonnerie
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
Hotel de la Bretonnerie is a 17th-century building in an extremely pretty part of the Marais. It is a well-run hotel (Hotel de la Bretonnerie) of 29 rooms on four floors. Although it has a reputation as being popular with the gay fraternity who...
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Hotel Britannia
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Lazio
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Rome
A hotel of just 33 rooms, the Britannia is a quiet hotel close to a busy street, and is not for lovers of minimalism. As befits what they describe as the former 'antique noble palace of Prince Orsini', the decor is colourful, busy and heavy in the...
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Hotel de La Trémoille
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
This ex-Forte hotel has recently had a complete makeover – mostly inside rather than out – so the architects have had the luxury of being able to design rooms fit for the modern traveller rather than fit around what was there before. The result is a...
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