Hints and tips:
...La Serena, one of the resort town’s few boutique hotels, is welcoming guests from April....
...Clearly, the Grind isn’t for everyone, but it attracts thousands of relatively fit visitors looking for an alternative to sweaty hotel gyms....
...“So many guests had commented on the overwhelming experience of [that] great vista of the Southern Ocean being dramatically revealed.”)...
...When he put down roots two decades ago on the slopes of Monte Amiata, between the Val d’Orcia and Maremma, he set about learning its secret paths and forests, ruins and byways, on foot....
...After Monte Grande, we passed through the village of Pisco Elqui with its numerous pisco distilleries....
...On the other side of the island, another developer is already converting a ruined plantation, Belo Monte, into a boutique hotel....
...“We cannot copy that period of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace,” says Sergio Mangini, head of the four-star Monte-Carlo Bay hotel. “This is a different generation....
...It’s a ride for dawdling, soaking up the big skies and wide vistas, eased along by the tail-wind coming off the Hawkdun Range....
...To the east is the small port, which is being enlarged with plans to double the number of moorings and add a hotel, restaurant, bar and shops....
...This final leg follows Pateley’s “Panoramic Walk”, offering more fine valley vistas....
...The best place to get an idea of how deeply unattractive Monte Carlo is – more a concrete copse than a jungle, the whole place is no more than 1.5 sq km – is from the Vista Palace....
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