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  • Welsh Patagonia | Marc Zakian | Argentina | Patagonia | Río Gallegos
    Bronwen is balancing a plate full of Welsh cakes in one hand, and a vaporous pot of tea in the other. She approaches my table - red dragon on her white blouse flashing with Celtic pride and asks: “Can I put you some milk for tea?” with a deep...
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  • Do Oar Die: The Venice Regatta | Marc Zakian | Italy | Veneto Region | Venice
    ‘Buona regata’, declared the bulbous doorman as I left my hotel. He had no idea that I was in town for the annual waterfest, but it mattered not; Venice had only one thing on its mind - the annual splash down the Grand Canal. I climbed aboard a...
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  • Lisbon | Marc Zakian | Portugal | Lisbon Region | Lisbon
    Lisbon defies its cliches. I came expecting a frenetic Latin-style metropolis, but found a compact and cosmopolitan capital which moves at an old-world pace - its gentle rhythms ideal for a giving traveller in search of a city break. I took the...
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  • Shakespeare's London | Marc Zakian | United Kingdom | Greater London | London
    In 1587 a young man from the provinces came to London. Twenty-three year old Will from Warwickshire wanted to be a writer, and in Queen Elizabeth’s beautiful and bloody, marvellous and murderous metropolis, theatre was the new sensation. But the...
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  • Dylan Thomas | Marc Zakian | United Kingdom | Wales | Swansea
    ‘Dylan called it his “ugly, lovely, town”,’ Pat tells me in her sonorous south-Wales lilt, ‘and from here you can see why’. We are standing on Mount Pleasant, a fancifully named hill overlooking a Victorian cityscape reshaped by blitz and 1970s...
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  • The Hamptons | Marc Zakian | United States | New York State | New York
    Long Island is New York society’s barometer. The higher up the social ladder you climb, the further up the island you summer. Reach the top, and you stay at the tip of the island - uptown’s summer playground: the Hamptons. I made it. Not, sadly,...
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  • Estancias | Marc Zakian | Argentina | Cordoba | General San Martin
    Villa Maria rises above the shimmering pampas. A Tudor mansion on the Argentine grasslands? Surely a mirage. But this how the Argentina’s beef barons celebrate their status - by building houses of European elegance on the land they pioneered. My...
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  • Reviews by Marc Zakian: Page 2 of 2

    La Collegiata | Marc Zakian
    Located on a hill opposite San Gimignano, this renaissance palazzo was once home to an order of Franciscan monks. It is now a discreet boutique hotel with a heated swimming pool, shaded lawns, gardens and fantastic views across the valley to San...
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  • Hotel Lisboa Plaza | Marc Zakian
    Opened at the beginning of the 1950's, the Hotel Lisboa Plaza is a practical and comfortable boutique hotel for a stay in Lisbon. Located near around the corner from the expensive Avenida da Liberdade and its parade of designer outlets, it is...
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  • Hotel Britania | Marc Zakian
    The smooth tones and individual deco style of the Hotel Britania in Lisbon are an antidote to the world of homogenised Hiltons. Located in a 1940's designed building, Britania provides an air of ambience. Port-hole deco windows, classic black and...
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