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  • Birmingham: A Weekend In The City | Maxine Jones | United Kingdom | Midlands | Birmingham
    Where am I? Three large, paved piazzas make up the traffic-free city centre, bordered by neo-classical and 19th-century buildings and filled with quirky monuments and statues. People congregate on wide, open steps and around fountains. Flowers are...
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  • Cypriot Cuisine: Love is in the Air | Maxine Jones | Cyprus | Western Cyprus | Limassol
    “I love Cyprus,” said an English neighbour who’d spent many holidays there.“Why?” I asked, still trying to get a handle on it after a short break in the south.“It’s clean, friendly, family oriented, familiar – they even drive on the left,” she said...
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  • Another Side of the Costa Dourada | Maxine Jones | Spain | Catalunya | Tarragona
    Based in a hotel in the middle of Salou’s tourist zone, a short walk from Portaventura theme park, Maxine Jones went out of her way to find another side to the Costa Dourada Tarragona Tarraco, the old name for Tarragona, was the first Roman city in...
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  • A Guide to Slovenia | Maxine Jones | Slovenia | Ljubljana Region | Ljubljana
    Arriving late at Ljubljana airport, Slovenia struck me immediately as clean and quiet with a slow, gentle pace. In the darkness there were smells of cut grass and woodlands, an enveloping greenness that cut through the black night.In the morning...
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  • Speaking Spanish in Seville: It's A Family Affair | Maxine Jones | Spain | Andalucia (Seville) | Seville
    I’m living on borrowed time as far as holidays with my teenage sons go. Two have already given up on me, but Tiernan, nearly 15, agreed to spend some of his half-term break with his mum in Seville. He was keen to try out his school Spanish. I...
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  • Reviews by Maxine Jones: Page 4 of 4

    Evian Royal Resort | Maxine Jones
    The place to stay at Evian is the Evian Royal Resort Hotel, inaugurated in 1909 to receive guests such as Edward VII of England, to whom the Royal owes it name. The king died before it was completed, but it quickly became the favourite thermal...
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  • Hotel Casa Romana | Maxine Jones
    Unusually, it was raining in Seville. Dreams of sitting out on Casa Romana’s roof terrace, a prettily tiled suntrap with a large Jacuzzi and loungers, were quickly quashed.  My 14-year-old son and I were not here primarily for the sun, however...
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  • Ritz Carlton Sharm el Sheikh | Maxine Jones
    An immense blue horizon greets you when you walk into the huge reception area of the Ritz Carlton Sharm el Sheikh. Glass replaces walls and makes the most of the hotel’s spectacular setting on the edge of the Red Sea. The startling inky blue of the...
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  • Room Mate Laura | Maxine Jones
    At Room Mate Laura, you don't just get a room, you get a pied-a-terre in the heart of old Madrid, with a congenial, designer feel. The Royal Palace is just a short stroll away and the hotel is right beside the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales. The...
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  • Room Mate Alicia | Maxine Jones
    Room Mate Alicia takes up the whole corner of Plaza Santa Ana and Calle de Prado. My suite ran round this corner, with three huge windows giving me a panoramic view of the bustling street scene. Yet not a sound penetrated my sleep that night - tough...
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