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Praia D’el Rey Golf & Beach Resort, Portugal

September 14, 2016 by Gretta Schifano 21 Comments

Boardwalk to beach, Praia D'el Rey, Portugal. Copyright Gretta Schifano

My favourite thing about the apartment where we stay on Portugal’s Silver Coast is its marvellous view of the ocean. I’m with my husband, daughter (18) and son (13) at Praia D’el Rey Golf & Beach Resort, around an hour’s drive north of Lisbon. It’s our first time in Portugal, and we start our trip […]

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Categories: Coast, Portugal, Room reports
Tags: James Villas, luxury apartments, Praia D'el Rey

Dubrovnik Sun Gardens Resort review

May 11, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 36 Comments

One of the pools at Dubrovnik Sun Gardens. Image copyright Gretta Schifano

I stayed at Dubrovnik Sun Gardens Resort in Croatia with my husband and kids for a week during the Easter holidays. We were at the resort as guests of James Villas. I’ve already written about the lovely apartment which we stayed in here, the inappropriate-for-kids Game of Thrones preview which we unwittingly attended here and our off-road Buggy […]

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Categories: Croatia, Luxury, Where to stay
Tags: Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik Sun Gardens, James Villas

On Game of Thrones and being a bad parent

April 14, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 30 Comments

Game of Thrones in Dubrovnik map

(Spoiler alert – don’t read this if you don’t want to know what happens at the end of Game of Thrones, Series 5, Episode 1) Dubrovnik has been used as a film location for the fictional city of Westeros in the award-winning fantasy TV series Game of Thrones since 2011. I stayed at a James Villas […]

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Categories: Croatia, Culture
Tags: Dubrovnik, Game of Thrones, James Villas

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