Breakfast at Mandarin Oriental Barcelona is definitely an act, the first act of the day. Best way of entering Blanc, the two-storey atrium that hosts this meal, is down 23 brown-carpeted stairs.

From Barcelona Girlahead travelled 90 minutes southwest to the charming Mediterranean port city of Tarragona in Catalonia.

The magic of silence is a version of the music of silence. The magic of silence, as at Marsten Bruno in Priorat, is the ability to walk at a steep incline up from the hotel into vineyards and walk and walk. Girlahead did just that. 

Yes, David Stein is host with the most. Above, he’s with Dominik Huber , another local Priorat celebrity who defected from his native Bavaria to establish Vila de Torroja Terroir Al Limit here.

Look up. Where else can you see a ceiling like this above you? There's only one Cafe Royal Hotel, London.

Cafe Royal Hotel is run by Eugene Leonard above, who came from Maybourne, lastly at Maybourne Beverly Hills.

This is a vertical hotel. From the ground floor entrance in Hanover Square, an imposing balcony allows you to look down to the restaurant..

Since Mandarin Oriental Mayfair’s GM Hemal Jain was away working the world the very able Austrian Helmut Roessler, above, was in charge of this art-with-an-edge hotel.

Hospitality in India carries personalised thoughtfulness way beyond par, as exemplified at Taj Santacruz in Bombay.