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[...] ) has a week at the Due Palme in Peschici from £368, including flights, B&B accommodation and car hire, or a week at the Hotel Sul Mare in Vieste from £558, including half-board accommodation, [...]

[...] . The week costs £3,510 for up to 17 sharing. Cottages to Castles can also arrange flights and car hire. During the off-peak months (1 October-17 December), the villa costs from £1,510 to £1,760 [...]

[...] or £1,495pp for seven nights inc flights from London-Sydney (with Cathay Pacific) and car hire. The One Hotel, Cambodia If you have delusions of grandeur, this may be the pad for you – [...]

[...] , no less). Three nights from £466pp (sharing) including return flights from Gatwick and car hire. Sunvil Italy (020-8568 4499, sunvil.co.uk). 8. Ripon, North Yorkshire Rosemary Shrager is [...]

[...] Puccini in paradise … the opera festival in Torre del Lago is a living, pulsing event. The greatest set designer in the world could not conjure up such [...]

[...] , Tuscany Dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini, this festival in the small town of Torre del Lago puts on performances of much-loved operas, such as Madama Butterfly and La Bohème, in a 3, [...]

[...] of their palaces on the Grand Canal and winding their way down the Brenta to their holiday homes. We climb out in front of the Villa Widmann, another example of the “more is more” [...]

[...] hosts, first came here 12 years ago. Our suntanned couriers quickly emerge to guide us to our holiday homes located further down the terraced hillside. As we trek down the steep incline, shouting [...]

[...] in for the ski link and restaurants. Originally, some of the apartments were to be sold as holiday homes, but bookings have been healthy enough for the management to abandon that plan, to the [...]

[...] these islands without hearing another British voice. Both islands are scattered with holiday homes, meaning that much of the accommodation tends to be self-catering cottages rather than [...]

[...] during the Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw (Image: macieklew used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license) Cow chips, if you aren’t familiar, are better known as cow dung. And yes, [...]

[...] cities from above with the photos below. Rome (Image: juandesant used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license) Seattle (Image: Seattle Municipal Archives) Sydney (Image: nigelhowe) New [...]

[...] . The attraction is the exclusive resort of Porto Cervo, a boutique town on a boutique coast, Costa Smeralda. The very beautiful 50km coastline here was developed in the 1960s by the Aga Khan as a [...]

[...] .com Big Fish B&Amp;B, Alghero, Sardinia While the billionaires may hang out in the Costa Smeralda, for a more affordable stay head to Alghero, on the northwest coast. This lively town has a [...]

[...] · Special events organiser Liaisons Abroad can arrange inclusive holidays with tickets to the Puccini Festival and a choice of accommodation – ranging from countryside agriturismos, villas in the [...]

[...] the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo. • 13-29 , aldeburgh.co.uk The Puccini festival, Tuscany Dedicated to the composer Giacomo Puccini, this festival in the small town of [...]

[...] to go Getting there: easyJet (0870 6000 000, easyjet.com) flies from both East Midlands and London Stansted to Venice from £70. Flight time Stansted-Venice: 2hrs, 5 mins. Where to stay: Rachel Spence [...]

[...] £1,129 to £1,485. Contact Eurocamp, 0870 3667 558. Sally Bolton flew with Ryanair from London Stansted to Pisa (0871 246 0000) Tuscany links San Gimignano Fiesole Florence Siena Pisa Tuscan [...]

[...] .com). Getting there: Ryanair (ryanair.com) has flights to La Rochelle and Nantes from London Stansted and regional airports. Where the Italians go Gargano Peninsula, Puglia Inland Puglia may have [...]

[...] scoured the globe for daring design and outstanding opulence, here are some of the best boutique hotels and their uniquely defining qualities. So, grasp those golden hours of sleep with both hands [...]

La Minervetta hotel, Sorrento, Italy Alastair Sawday, founder of the Special Places To Stay series Villa Val Des Roses, Cap D’antibes, France You [...]

[...] friendly winemakers themselves, who not only have the best insider tips for sightseeing and local restaurants, but will also take you on a tour of the vines, explain the process of vinification, and, [...]

[...] of the posters that advertised the original productions of Puccini’s operas. Local restaurants are open both before and after the opera, serving simple but fresh and flavoursome [...]

[...] flight arrived, surprisingly, on time and complete with baggage, but then we spent an hour at Pisa airport waiting for Leo to hire two people carriers and another couple of hours driving along the [...]

[...] that rise beyond the lake. Igor Mitoraj’s designs for Manon Lescaut are exhibited at Pisa airport – demonstrating just how important the festival is to the region (Torre del Lago is in [...]

[...] same name, which is a Baroque extravaganza withheavy wood and gold-leaf décor. What to buy Via Toledo and Via Chiaia are full of shops sellingshoes, handbags and chocolates. Survival tips · Spring [...]

[...] . Stunning.Piazza Museo 19. 9am-7pm. Closed Tuesdays. Tel: 0039 081 440 166. 4 Walk down the Via Toledo at 6pm, where the wholecity seems to be out for the passeggiata, showing offtheir clothes and [...]