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Then Charlie just up and died, with all his novels still inside.
Diana Der-Hovanessian |
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Görlitz, by Nicky Gardner |
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February 12 2009
Nicky Gardner highlights a favourite place...
Görlitz is an unsung small town in eastern Germany, right on the Polish border. I go there at least once each year – a kind of therapy. The old city centre oozes history and it has in the Untermarkt one of Europe’s most picture-perfect town squares.
A day or two in Görlitz, drifting slowly between its plentiful and varied cafés, is supremely recuperative. The town has a range of good hotels, but one that I think really deserves a mention is the Hotel Börse, housed in the old market trading hall on the Untermarkt.
The hotel, run by the Rittmannsperger family, is a lovely local haunt: understated, quiet, elegant. I love it. With rooms from €70 each (including breakfast), it is perhaps a shade more expensive that I would normally pay, but it is worth every cent. If you can, bag one of the front corner rooms on the upper floors. No restaurant, but lots of great places to eat within a few steps of the front door of the Börse.
More on the hotel at www.boerse-goerlitz.de and more on Görlitz at www.goerlitz.de. A great location for an unusual city break.
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“By the Singapore River the skyscrapers of the Central Business District flash through momentarily, unreal and unnatural, wearing their windows like twinkling chain mail. If there exists any beauty in this vision, it is not the Creator’s; it is the elegance of geometric lines and curves fashioning a horizon shaped by Man as master of the jungle’s anarchy.”
John Malathronas, Singapore Swing, (Summersdale, 2007) |
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