If you’re travelling to Jackson, Wyoming for the ski season or you’re en route to Yellowstone National Park you could be forgiven if you didn’t venture over the Teton Pass into Idaho. But you would be making a big mistake; missing out one of Small Luxury Hotels of the World’s jewels of the American North West, Teton Springs Lodge & Spa.
Location
Just over the Teton Pass from Jackson, Teton Springs Lodge & Spa sits at the Southern end of the plains that lie at the foot of the Teton Mountains. Surrounded on three sides by the vast, mountainous Targee National Forest this wild expanse provides every imaginable adventure from skiing to fishing, trail riding to white water rafting. This is country for exploring.
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Posted by Paul Handley on Tue 7th September 2010 at 07:43 AM, Filed in Luxury Watches
Luxury Sports Watches are the domain of Linde Werdelin. Since 2002, Morten Linde and Jorn Werdelin’s watch making company have incorporated everything good to make the best luxury timepiece possible – the very best of Swiss watch making and craftsmanship combined with innovative Danish design and avant-garde technology.
The end results are impressive.
By combining both analogue and digital technologies, Linde Werdelin have produced the best mens watches and precision instruments.
Now is the time of the limited, special edition - the 3-Timer Racing series. This is based on previous model 3-Timer GMT, but the launch of this very special male timepiece coincided with the Grand Prix in Singapore.
As a nod to this GP edition, the sport wrist watches new series has the model name ‘Racing’ engraved on the case-back and is available in two colour variations of red and yellow limited to nine pieces for each colour.
The design of the 3- timer is well thought out and even better executed. The indexes are placed closer to the edge of the dial while the bidirectional 24-hour bezel is polished on the facets while the red or yellow 24-hour markings correspond to the colour details on the case screws and calfskin straps.
Each Linde Werdelin watch has the capacity to attach dive and ski instruments. The Rock and The Reef instruments securely clip on top of the watch to amplify the sporting experience whether in the mountains or in the sea respectively.
These very special watches also carry an automatic mechanical movement and have a 42-hour power reserve.
The best sports watch I have seen by a long chalk.
The 3-Timer Racing series are available from http://www.ecollezione.com and LindeWerdelin.com, 3-Timer Racing Series 9 pcs of each colour - €5,280
When planning a holiday, You want to make sure you get the best. You probably do not want to “Thomas Cook it”, You deserve the pinnacle of luxury, a unique and perfectly agreeable user experience.
You can now enjoy the most up to date insider’s tips at Olympia, London from 4 – 7 November. The Conde Nast Luxury Travel Fair 2010 has lined up the very best in Luxury getaways, 70 of the finest holiday experiences from around the world are featured and 90 travel companies are present to give you all the info and inspiration you will need.
This consumer led event will be able to glean information from first-class travel specialists, five-star hotels and luxury tour operators for 5 star luxury hotels and pure luxury holidays.
Exhibitors already confirmed will include tourist boards such as Abu Dhabi Tourism and the Spanish Tourist Board; tour operators Abercrombie & Kent Ltd, Bailey Robinson, Elegant Resorts and Virgin Holidays & Hip Hotels and luxury hotel specialists Constance Hotels and Tivoli Hotels & Resorts. You will find your luxury hotel resort at this exhibition.
This fair will also have plenty of interactive events, such as live interviews with inspirational speakers including BBC presenter Dan Cruickshank and Olympic Skier and Ski Sunday presenter Graham Bell, to cultural performances including traditional Middle Eastern belly dancing and steel drums from the Caribbean.
‘Taste the World’ with Harvey Nichols Foodmarket sounds completely appealing too!
If the World is not enough for you, You can have a chat about a stellar experience with Virgin Galactic…. The Conde Nast Luxury Travel Fair 2010, It’s all here!
Advance tickets for The Luxury Travel Fair are £12.50 per adult and £6.50 per child. Tickets bought on the day are £15 each. Children aged 12 and under go free.
Tickets can be booked online at http://www.luxurytravelfair.com or on the ticket hotline number 0871 230 1091.
Sri Lanka tours have become one of the World’s most popular holiday choices.
This holiday hotspot seemingly has it all – Charming people with diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. The island and the landscape of Sri Lanka is as diverse as its people and I think this is what has been the major pull.
Spanning 430 km North to South and with a width of 225 km, Sri Lanka Holidays offer so much.
From the idyllic coastline that stretches a lengthy 1340 km to Sri Lanka’s tea country, where the landscape is dramatically different with lush surroundings and temperate forests, there is much to see and do.
Tea Country
Safari seems the way forward. Asian specialists, cazenove+loyd like to do things a little differently. Why safari in a battered, bumpy four x four when you can take to the skies and really get to see Sri Lanka…all of it.
From Colombo, the private Bell Jet Ranger helicopter heads for Kandy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one corner of Sri Lanka’s cultural triangle.
The other two corners, the ancient cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa in the north can be circled in a few hours by helicopter, giving passengers a clear aerial view of the ancient ruins. The helicopter lands next to the UNESCO World Heritage site, Sigiriya.
Sigiriya
From the north, it is just a one hour flight to Sri Lanka’s Tea country. Clients stay in a converted tea plantation bungalow and can visit local tea factories and explore the countryside by foot, bike or raft.
Galle, the most important town in the south of Sri Lanka, is the final stop on the safari. The flight from the Highlands to Galle takes in the sights of the Kothmale reservoir, local waterfalls and the sacred Adam’s Peak which contains the footprint of Buddha.
Fly over Adam’s Peak at sunrise and witness the distinctive triangular shadow the mountain casts on the surrounding plain.
View From Adams Peak
An unbelievable island offering mile after mile of Seductive beaches, cultural heritage sites, differing landscapes of Mountains to lush green lagoons and leafy forests and waterfalls and rivers bursting with suitably diverse organisms.
It has to be seen by air, surely the only way to take in all this Island has to offer.
A five night flying safari with cazenove+loyd (http://www.cazloyd.com 020 7384 2332) costs from 3,455 per person based on four people travelling, as part of a tailormade itinerary. The price includes a night at Kandy House, two nights at Lavender House in the Highlands and two nights at Galle Fort Hotel on a bed and breakfast basis with private helicopter flights throughout. The itinerary does not include international flights.
The Magical and mystical Cornwall has so much to offer. Every time I have visited Cornwall, It has been memorable.
For such a location, I prefer to rent cottages instead of a Hotel. This is where there has been a slight issue.
More times than I would prefer, there has been an element of “roughing it”. Maybe that has been down to my choice of rental cottages in Cornwall, maybe it has been down to the standard available.
This problem has been picked up by the team behind Simply Time in Cornwall. Experienced in self catering in Cornwall, The Ogg family have inserted luxury and quality into their 3 cottages USP’s. They have created the ultimate Cornwall rent cottage in 3 variations.
Here’s the Oggs – “We learned from first hand experience what makes or breaks a self-catering holiday. We decided that you shouldn’t have to comprise on quality, style or location and have strived to combine the best of everything in our properties. Our approach is based on the levels of service and hospitality we expect ourselves.”
Too right.
The three cottages are located in Mid Cornwall, in the Historic and picturesque port town of Charlestown, complete with harbour and sea views. For perfect holidays cottages Cornwall can offer no more luxurious than these.
Extensive renovation and thoughtful interior design has resulted in 3 cottages suitable for those with exacting standards. The finish is professional and makes for three homely, functional, highly presentable, Luxury Cornish holiday lets.
Differing from most Cornish rentals, each cottage has its own garden and outdoor eating space. Two of the cottages are next door to each other, whilst the third is a couple of doors away.
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