A mum bought a quaint cottage for just £59 for her dream escape to the country – and after taking 22 YEARS to fix it up is now worth £450,000. Jane Beck, 54, bought the cottage when she fell in love with it on a holiday break two decades ago. She piled her four children … Read more
Great British Boltholes: The 18th-century Greyhound Inn in Oxfordshire is the perfect ramblers’ retreat The Greyhound Inn is in Letcombe Regis on the edge of the Ridgeway trail The pub has eight stylish new rooms decorated in Farrow & Ball colours There’s a renovated bar/restaurant with a wood-burning fire and scattered rugs By T. D. … Read more
London’s leading tobacco firms lit up the stock market after US authorities announced a less extreme crackdown on e-cigarettes than they had been expecting. Footsie stalwarts British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands had been bracing for a blanket ban on e-cigarette flavours. The US government will eliminate fruit, dessert and mint flavours to curb what … Read more
SPA DOCTOR: Rebalancing in a mystical Alpine retreat By Jane Alexander For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:20 BST, 1 June 2019 | Updated: 10:04 BST, 3 June 2019 My stress levels were under control, or so I thought. But I’ve recently been diagnosed with stress axis dysfunction, a condition where the pressure of day-to-day … Read more
Sylvester Stallone is putting his luxurious desert retreat on the market once again for $3.35 million. Since 2011, the actor, 73, has made multiple attempts to sell the property, and has now slashed $849K off the 2016 asking price in an effort to find a buyer, according to the Los Angeles Times. Located in La … Read more
A former ‘den of iniquity’ that has been turned into a cliff-top romantic retreat is so popular it is booked up for the next 18 months. Doyden Castle, near Port Quin in Cornwall, was built in the early 19th century by a local landowner as a secret bolthole for gambling and drinking in with friends. … Read more
Every day, those in search of Iceland’s most perfect Instagram shot will get up at dawn, just so that they can score a photo of a deserted, pristine Blue Lagoon. To one side of the lagoon, though, is The Retreat, which takes Iceland’s most seminal experience – bathing in its milky blue geothermal waters – and … Read more
The month began with gin, and it wasn’t long before strange, melancholic headaches became a regular feature. By the third week of this particular month (I’m not saying which), things needed to change. That’s how I find myself at the Barberyn retreat and spa in Beruwala, an unfussy little town on Sri Lanka’s west coast, … Read more