And so the train to heaven continues. The Dolce Vita Orient Express gracefully glides into Venice and stops right by the water's edge, or rather as close to it as it can without getting its dainty rolling-stock wheels wet.

After such an elegantly stylish evening at Orient Express Venizia Palazzo Donna Giovannelli, Girlahead and her travel companions returned to their albeit-temporary elegantly stylish home on wheels.

Having weaned the shopaholic from spending yet more hard-earned cash Girlahead and The Gang headed up the hill to Belmond’s Splendido.

Sometimes, booking the finest suite becomes a terrible nuisance, and the Sybaritic Single is once again reminded of it the hard way.

Nik, who’s responsible for marketing Orascom’s entire Andermatt complex, took Girlahead to see a model of what it will eventually look like.

One of the outstanding features of the entire Andermatt project is the enthusiasm and the niceness of all the people.

James Lamb isn’t running a hotel – he’s tasked by Orascom’s Samih Sawiris and his increasingly influential son Naguib with putting Andermatt on the map.

Sholto Crawford-Smith is an internationalist who is blissfully happy in London as General Manager of the 447-room Intercontinental London Park Lane.

Intercontinental London Park Lane is 51 years old, and a lot has changed in that half-century. Admittedly, when it opened in 1975, you would have been looking out at masses of traffic.