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The strange things you probably didn’t know are banned from cruise ships
Try taking a skateboard on a Princess ship and it will be confiscated. Tattoo-making kits are banned by Costa Cruises, balloons by P&O Cruises. And if you attempt to board any ship with handcuffs – even the, ahem, novelty kind – they will be locked away.
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The 10 best restaurants in Cortina d'Ampezzo
There’s no two ways about it, Cortina d’Ampezzo is one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world. Surrounded on all four sides by the craggy, red rock monoliths of the Northern Dolomites, the town’s setting couldn’t be more spectacular. The architecture is elegant, particularly the 19th century old town around the pedestrianised main street, Corso Italia. The resort epitomises a certain kind of postwar, Italian chic.
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The best après-ski bars and activities in Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina is the main host of the 2026 Winter Olympics, but it was the 1956 games that really put this town on the map, helping establish it as the place for wealthy, well-heeled Italians to come for their winter holidays during the postwar boom period. It’s a status Cortina still holds to this day.
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The perfect ski holiday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy's chicest mountain resort
Cortina is one of the oldest ski resorts in Europe, in Italy’s north-eastern corner, with grand hotels dating from Victorian times, and is set among the stunning scenery of the Dolomites. It is also one of the few resorts in the Dolomites with an entirely Italian atmosphere, and almost none of the Germanic and Austrian culture and language of most resorts in the region.
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The glorious forest Britain built from scratch
Cycling backlanes and bridleways, down quiet tracks, through pretty villages, my astonishment grew with every pedal. I’d come for a woodland ride, yes. I just hadn’t expected it to be so… green.
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This English country-house hotel is the ultimate romantic stay
Oh, England. If you need to fall in love with your country again, if you need a treat, if you want to be transported back to the romantic era, then come and stay at the Cavendish Hotel. Arrive in time for cocktails on the new terrace with its red-and-white striped umbrellas, and drink in the Peak District view laid out before you. Admire them again from your bedroom window when you wake in the misty morning. After a perfect English breakfast, stroll through the kissing gate across stately Capabi
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The Arctic city trying to lure tourists with screaming men and air guitar
I once asked a denizen of the Arctic north what people did all day in such frozen latitudes. “In the summer we fish and make love,” she said. And in the winter? “We don’t fish.” The city of Oulu (population of around 200,000) in northern Finland is in the throes of expanding that repertoire in time for its stint as European Capital of Culture 2026.
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