This Malmaison Hotel is in Aberdeen. We haven’t audited them yet but they’ve told us they do have accessible rooms – each of them have wheel in showers, emergency cords, grab bars in the bathrooms. The hotel’s restaurant is accessible and there is a flat entrance into the building. There’s also a disabled toilet in the…
Summer’s finally arrived and of course holidays are paramount in everyone’s mind. Mine started with a trip to Berlin & Prague. First was – Berlin – we did a previous review of Berlin, EU Access City 2013 (including where to stay) and now I can give you a first hand report. (BTW we’re doing a series…
Barts & Maggies Bar are part of the same group that own Bunga Bunga, see my previous review. BARTS is in the Chelsea Cloisters serviced apartments on Sloane Avenue. It’s a quirky speakeasy at the rear of the reception where you have to ring a bell to get in. Not sure they’ll see you through the peephole in…
The Lydmar Hotel is a stylish five-star hotel on the waterfront in Stockholm. Trip Advisor’s 2012 Traveller’s Choice Awards listed the Lydmar as one of the top-25 hotels in Sweden. It has an informal and relaxed feel to it. They emphasise that the try to create this friendly environment rather than an over-stylised and slightly…
Probably best known as the birthplace of Mozart, the city Salzburg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997. It’s a wonderful place to go for a weekend or week long break. Salzburg city centre is one of the best-preserved in Austria and for that matter anywhere north of the Alps. The Altstadt, or “old…
Lutyens is a restaurant on Fleet Street, named after the British architect Edwin Lutyens and designer of the building. Their “extensive à la carte menu focuses on modern European, highly-seasonal food, with a subtle Nordic influence.” This Nordic influence comes from their Swedish chef Henrik Ritzen who uses lighter ingredients in his food, having a greater emphasis on…
I applied to speak at Digital Shoreditch, and surprisingly I got a slot under the banner “What Tech City?” . Digital Shoreditch is a festival over 10 days where you can, “Discover and explore the latest trends & successes in using digital in : branding, content, funding, games, design, social, mobile, emerging tech & greater good.”…