Sophy’s Blog
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Sophy Roberts is one of the most respected travel journalists in the world. She always has a very incisive perspective on the world of luxury travel. Her work appears most often in the Financial Times and Departures Magazine.

Here at cazloyd.com she posts an occasional blog which gives a particular insight into the world of ‘high end’ travel and a unique view of how to get the most out of a destination.

It is never just about the hotel, the room, the restaurant, the route taken or the guide…it is a very special mixture of elements which need to come together to make a particular holiday that bit more enriching.

Real pearls of wisdom, we hope you will agree.

A NICE Restaurant – From Cambodia to Namibia

Cambodia One of my favourite restaurants of all time is Romdeng in Phnom Penh—a simple, $20-a-head side street eatery where you can sit down for a long lunch on the veranda enjoying exceptionally fresh Cambodian cuisine, including traditional Khmer recipes …

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The growth of the Maldives

In the Maldives, the paradise cliché isn’t without flaw. There are the topographical limitations, which is what has led a Dutch company to get into bed with the Government of the Maldives to develop a floating resort concept: 43 private …

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Oman's Empty Quarter

Oman’s Empty Quarter

There is something strange about posting this blog from the air. I’m on board an Oman Air flight, 4 hours and 41 minutes off London. It’s an economy class seat—with WiFi. This connection to the world seems especially odd when …

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An Aman Convert

An Aman Convert

The new Amanresort in Delhi might be very, very expensive and have little to do with the poor, frenetic city that steams outside the hotel’s walls but still, I’m a convert. Now managed by Robyn Bickford and her husband Manav—both …

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Tips for Travelling with Children

So I’m back from Bhutan where I took my son—all six years of him. We flew into the Himalayas, landing at around 3,000 metres. To be honest, I was more stressed about the effects the altitude might have on him …

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More than just a beach re...

More than just a beach resort

I’m not a huge fan of the Maldives. I think of the islands as rich men’s prisons, each little spec in this coral atoll populated with stilted villas and plunge pools that I personally find somehow confining. But I also …

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Try the new trend: Micro-cruising

I’ve got a problem with cruising. It begins and ends with the sight of a vast white ship cutting through St Mark’s Basin, which I experienced last spring. The image still appalls me, that it should even be permissible in …

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Immerse your family into a different culture

In four weeks I leave for Bhutan where I will be taking my son Danny. I have resolved to do this once a year, every year, for as long as I can afford it: a trip that immerses him in …

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Finding Burma...

Finding Burma…

Donna Karan, Diane Von Furstenburg, rock stars, soccer players and Russian oligarchs—they have all been to Burma, even in the bad years when Aung San Suu Kyi was calling for a boycott by visitors to this afflicted country. I struggled …

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Trekking in the Himalayas

About 15 years ago I travelled in Nepal, doing the ‘Annapurna Circuit’—my first experience of Himalayan trekking. I admit, I made a few basic errors. First off, I carried my own backpack. For a dollar a day, I should have …

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Wait for the right type of luxury

This posting is in response to an email I received today—recommendations on the new luxury hotels to book in 2011.  I started to make my list: Rasa in Rajasthan, Raffles Praslin in the Seychelles, The Siam in Bangkok… Such places …

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Pressed for Cash?

Pressed for Cash?

Over dinner on New Year’s Eve I got the usual bashing from friends—how a journalist’s opinion of a luxury hotel is redundant. If someone else is picking up the bill at the end of the stay, what part of value …

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