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    Longitude 131 | John Borthwick
    The Big Red One - Ayers Rock - sits like a giant paperweight pinning Australia to the blue planet. With dawn and dusk its ancient faces bloom through a rosy spectrum, shifting hue each time you look away. The best place to gaze at Uluru is from the...
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  • Raffles Hotel | John Borthwick
    In 1987 Singapore's Straits Times lamented with uncharacteristic wryness that "Hotels in the steamier reaches of the Orient aren't what they used to be. All but gone are the grand verandas where plots for novels and more serious misdeeds were...
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  • The King David | John Borthwick
    Jerusalem's King David Hotel has the dubious distinction of being probably the only luxury hotel in the world to be blown up by a future Prime Minister of its own country. In 1946, Israeli P.M-to-be, Menachim Begin and his accomplices demolished a...
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  • The K Club | John Borthwick
    One of the great joys of golfing here is that after playing you can retire to the manor to which you wish you'd been born. The fabled K Club in County Kildare, not far from Dublin airport, is not quite a castle, but far more than a chalet. Set...
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  • Hotel Lindrum | John Borthwick
    The Lindrum overlooks and overhears a city's heartbeat; just down the street (Flinders Street) from Melbourne's fascinating new Federation Square complex is its stately 19th-century façade (and 21st century interior). The facilities If you love art...
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  • The Bale | John Borthwick
    A good boutique hotel starts with an aesthetic. The structure, service and everything else then, hopefully, follow suit. That The Bale, located on a Nusa Dua hillside-with-seaview, has opted for the aesthetics of balance and clarity is apparent from...
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  • Royal Davui | John Borthwick
    An ancient banyan tree grows right in the middle of the open-air restaurant deck at Royal Davui Island Resort. Its massive lattice of taproots, limbs and trunks could be the symbolic heart of this ten-acre island. It is certainly the fulcrum around...
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  • Diva Maldives | John Borthwick
    The Maldives, that sea-locked swathe of gorgeous atolls scattered down the Indian Ocean, is renowned - almost too well - for its seductive luxury resorts. However, when you've swooned, honeymooned, sun-baked, slept and swum, then swum again at a...
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  • The Metropolitan Bangkok | John Borthwick
    Few cities are as endowed as Bangkok with hotels of every standard and nuance, competing for the full spectrum of travellers from business and leisure to budget and long-stay. Which makes the Thai capital a great 'buyer's market' when it comes to...
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  • Villathena | John Borthwick
    In Paris, as elsewhere, the closer you move towards the epicentre of fun the more you find a painful inverse ratio between the price of your hotel room and its size. That is, book a room near an outer metro station and you pay half as much for twice...
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