Category Archives: Travel

You’ve decided where you want to go – now is the fun part: planning where to sleep, what to look at and how to stuff your face. Hopefully, these Essential Bits will lead you to the unmissable bits to any place you venture for the first time or the twentieth.

Best Bits of Le Petit Trianon Versailles, France

Looking for an easy day trip from Paris? Versailles is so close and Le Petit [...]

Best Bits of Luxury: Cowdray House, West Sussex, UK

What a glorious day! I had been to Chamonix and it rained, Piemonte and it [...]

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A Best Bits Hotel: Relais Sant’Uffizio, Piedmont, Italy

Why hadn’t I returned to Piemonte? After my first year of university, I lived with [...]

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Best Bits of the Whitney Plantation, Louisiana, USA

Following our guide, the ten of us shuffled into the cramped cabin, leaving us barely [...]

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Best Bits of Fécamp and Honfleur, France

A weekend in Normandy, France is just enough time to visit Fécamp and Honfleur. These [...]

Best Bits of Koh Lanta, Thailand

Are you thinking about Christmas? I was last year this time. The Cypriot and I [...]