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Milan Design Week 2012: Check into the right hotels
It's almost upon us, Milan Design Week 2012 is about to welcome people from all over the world into its arms and Swide has 5 hotel suggestions to make sure you have the perfect place to rest your weary heads after a long day.
Top 5 firework displays for N.Y.E.
New Year’s Eve is almost here and you know what that means, don’t you? Celebration, music, drinking, dancing, the countdown and, of course, the fireworks. Here are Swide’s top 5 places to experience fireworks.
Frozen Fancies: Swide’s 5 Ice Hotels and Bars
Whilst many of the world’s holiday makers opt for warmer locations at this time of year, some of us are clinging on to the cold and finding icy escapes to be their choice for this seasonal snap, finding refuge in an Ice Hotel.
10 best places to eat truffles in Piedmont (Italy)
Here comes the autumn. This time of the year, every serious foodie has only one desire: being in Piedmont, tasting white truffles. Are you in?
BÁSICO Hotel: Blending in never looked so good.
Just a few steps away from the Caribbean Sea in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, sits BÁSICO hotel. A hedonistic design haven that blurs the lines of industrial accents, exposure, contemporary thinking and Mexican spirit.
Luxury Living... in a Desert?
We all dream of living the life of luxury! But have you ever dreamt of this luxury being in a desert? If so, Oppenheim Architecture + Design have brought this dream a step closer to becoming a reality.
Luxury. Parisian Style.
“You don’t know what luxury is until you have stayed at Hotel Plaza Athénée, Paris”.
The Savoy Re-Opens
Since 1889, there has only been one place to stay in London – The Savoy. Now, after a three year complete refurbishment, the hotel synonymous with glamour and decadence has re-opened its doors.
Pera Palace Grand Opening
Do you want to sleep in Agatha Christie’s favourite room, and plot a murder on the Orient Express all of your own? Well, your wish will only cost about 400 euros a night. Pera Palace is back in business.
St Tropez: opt for the Pan Deï, the palais of gods
You have the plane ticket, you have the friends, you have the nights planned. We tell you where to stay: Pan Deï Palais.
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The ‘Sport of Kings’ provides some of the best all day entertainment in the world. It’s where fashion, sport, the super rich, rural tradition and of course, horses all merge in an adrenaline and champagne-fuelled spectacle that really gets the heart pumping. Swide picks for you the top 5 horse races in the world.
Canadian Ben Johnson won the gold medal in the 100m final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics with an awesome display of power with a world record time of 9.79 seconds. However three days later his urine sample tested positive for a banned substance and was stripped of his medal and record. Johnson was sent home in disgrace, but that wasn’t the end to the Johnson story.
Moto Guzzi are lining up their latest reboot of their best-selling series with the California 1400. It’s a bit of a departure form the cruiser look of previous models with a more vintage Art Nouveau style.
Known for being quite the straight faced beauty on the red carpet, Kristen Stewart was the one making us smile when she revealed details about when she stripped off with Garrett Hedlund on the set of ‘On The Road’ and how shock was replaced by being at ease…
Graceful like the women he depicted and powerful like the stories he recounted through his works, Botticelli is among the Renaissance men who changed the world forever.
When I was a child, my parents used to take me to a little village, where we would have almond “granita” and collect fresh water form a little drinking fountain, afterwards. This little place is called Scopello and it was time for me to return to my childhood and explore as an adult.
The scenario is…you are only in London for 24hrs. This doesn’t have to mean being stuck in your hotel wanting but not knowing what to do. Enlightened travellers continually ask the question - What would a Londoner do? Have no fear Luxury London is here…
There’s no need to go far afield to exotic locations to find adventure. In recent years adventures have been rediscovering urban winders right on our very doorsteps. Urban Exploration, known also as Urbex or UE, is an (often illegal) activity that explores unseen or unknown sights in the urban environment.