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34 METRO Monday, April 11, 2016 Escape Escape Travel | Culture | Adventure HOT List The HOT The Stay at Hamlet’s home, do yoga on a yacht or see a vision of hell A cool cabin and cute little caravan to love compiled by LISA SCOTT BALANCING on one foot on a rocking boat might seem like an impossible task but that hasn’t put off new travel venture Yacht + Yoga. This summer it is offering three separate weeks downward dogging around Sardinia’s La Maddalena Archipelago, a cluster of 60 rocky islands, on its spacious catamaran. You will start each day with a 30-minute gentle- flow yoga session, followed by breakfast and a day sailing around the islands where you can snorkel, swim, dive or hike the rugged coastline. You will end each day with an evening yoga class, followed by dinner on board or on land in a local Italian restaurant. £1,299 for seven nights including yoga sessions and meals, yachtandyoga.com Dive in for a week of yoga on the high seas TO celebrate the brighter days, Canopy & Stars has added a selection of unusual outdoor spots to its UK portfolio. The cutest include a teardrop-shaped caravan in the Kent countryside complete with a hot shower – inside an old-school red telephone box, no less – and an American West-style cabin in Pembrokeshire. The Little Barn has a curved roof, pine floors and windows and a loſty living area with views over a pretty pond. From £90-100 per night, canopyandstars.co.uk FLYING has just become a little more interesting thanks to new app Flyover Country, which explains what natural sites you are passing on the ground. Using off-line maps and data from a variety of geological databases, the app details geeky facts about the glaciers, lakes and mountains below. To make evening flights more interesting, it will soon include a wealth of astronomy facts too. Available on the App Store Track wonders of the world as you fly Bosch celebration will be a hell of a show THE V Palm Springs, a one-time Travelodge motel, has been transformed into a 140-room stylish desert spot complete with a Polynesian-inspired poolside grill. Designed by the Westar Architectural Group, the two- story whitewashed site has a sunken, circular lobby, a palm oasis and an interior that celebrates the native Cahuilla Indians by mixing earthy tones with feather, snake and arrow symbols. Its V-shaped pool will be a welcome addition to the desert city’s famous pool party scene. From £399 per night, vpalmsprings.com Californian desert hotel is V nice indeed ON May 8, a light and sound show celebrating the acclaimed medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch, famous for his bloody depictions of hell, will be projected on to the buildings of the southern Dutch city Den Bosch. It is 500 years since the painter’s death and the city has a wealth of celebrations planned throughout the year. The landmark exhibition Jheronimus Bosch – Visions Of Genius, the result of a whopping nine-year project, finishes on the same day as the show so if you’re smart you can enjoy both. The local Mövenpick Hotel (above right) is offering a two-night ‘Bosch500’ package, which includes a Bosch-inspired four- course dinner and admission to the exhibition for £139. movenpick.com/hertogenbosch ON April 23, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Denmark’s majestic Kronborg Castle – believed to be Elsinore in Hamlet – will open for just two guests. They will have the King’s Tower, complete with four-poster bed, all to themselves. To stay, you simply need to write to the host by April 13 and explain why you deserve a night in the castle. The host advises potential guests that ‘there will be a skull in the King’s Tower, so no need to bring your own’. airbnb.co.uk To be, or not to be, a guest in the castle
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Stay at Hamlet’s home, do yoga on a yacht
or see a vision of hell
A cool cabin and cute little caravan to love
compiled by lisa scott
Balancing on one foot on a rocking boat might seem like an impossible task but that hasn’t put off new travel venture Yacht + Yoga. This summer it is offering three separate weeks downward dogging around Sardinia’s la Maddalena archipelago, a cluster of 60 rocky islands, on its spacious catamaran. You will start each day with a 30-minute gentle-flow yoga session, followed by breakfast and a day sailing around the islands where you can snorkel, swim, dive or hike the rugged coastline. You will end each day with an evening yoga class, followed by dinner on board or on land in a local italian restaurant.
£1,299 for seven nights including yoga sessions and meals,
yachtandyoga.com
Dive in for a week of yoga on the high seas
To celebrate the brighter days, Canopy & Stars has added a selection of unusual outdoor spots to its UK portfolio. The cutest include a teardrop-shaped caravan in the Kent countryside complete with a hot shower – inside an old-school red telephone box, no less – and an American West-style cabin in Pembrokeshire. The Little Barn has a curved roof, pine floors and windows and a lofty living area with views over a pretty pond.
From £90-100 per night, canopyandstars.co.uk
FLying has just become a little more interesting thanks to new app Flyover Country, which explains what natural sites you are passing on the ground. Using off-line maps and data from a variety of geological databases, the app details geeky facts about the glaciers, lakes and mountains below. To make evening flights more interesting, it will soon include a wealth of astronomy facts too.
Available on the App Store
Track wonders of the world as you fly
Bosch celebration will be a hell of a showThe V Palm Springs, a one-time Travelodge motel, has been transformed into a 140-room stylish desert spot complete with a Polynesian-inspired poolside grill. Designed by the Westar Architectural group, the two-story whitewashed site has a sunken, circular lobby, a palm
oasis and an interior that celebrates the native Cahuilla indians by mixing earthy tones with feather, snake and arrow symbols. its V-shaped pool will be a welcome addition to the desert city’s famous pool party scene.
From £399 per night, vpalmsprings.com
Californian desert hotel is V nice indeedon May 8, a light and sound show celebrating the acclaimed medieval painter hieronymus Bosch, famous for his bloody depictions of hell, will be projected on to the buildings of the southern Dutch city Den Bosch. it is 500 years since the painter’s death and the city has a wealth of celebrations planned throughout the year. The landmark exhibition Jheronimus Bosch – Visions of genius, the result of a whopping nine-year project, finishes on the same day as the show so if you’re smart you can enjoy both. The local Mövenpick hotel (above right) is
offering a two-night ‘Bosch500’ package,
which includes a Bosch-inspired four-
course dinner and admission to the exhibition for £139. movenpick.com/hertogenbosch
on April 23, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Denmark’s majestic Kronborg Castle – believed to be elsinore in hamlet – will open for just two guests. They will have the King’s Tower, complete with four-poster bed, all to themselves. To stay, you simply need to write to the host by April 13 and explain why you deserve a night in the castle. The host advises potential guests that ‘there will be a skull in the King’s Tower, so no need to bring your own’.
airbnb.co.uk
To be, or not to be, a guest in the castle
