On a small island in the Venetian lagoon, 45 minutes by vapo from the city, the Cipriani family's sophisticated and ro restaurant-with-villa rooms stands in lovely, well-tended gardens near famous basilica (magnificent mosaics). Many visitors come for enjoying the typically Venetian cooking of Renato Ceccato. When they have gone, residents have Torcello for themselves for the tu A unique Venetian experience, Jan Morris wrote to the Guide 1982. She enjoyed walking beneath the pergola after dinner, listeni to the faint stirring of the wind off the lagoon. And in 2002, a known chef/hotelier from Wales was there: A lovely wel Gloriously faded feel. Pictures of Hemingway, and Charles and old prints of Torcello. Creaky wood floor upstairs. Super Concordia, looking over the gardens to the church: cream walls furniture, loads of books in various languages, flowers, bathrobes the lilac mosaic-tiled bathroom. They'd done 150 Sunday lunches the place was spotless, and at night we were there with one British couple (regulars). Dinner was decent if not great scampi artichoke risotto cooked to order; monkfish with tomato and strawberry panna cotta. Beppi the waiter was back on duty morning for Bali villa breakfast under the trellis excellent blood orange jui lovely almond and jam croissants, nice coffee and chocolate.

Traveller's tale villain Switzerland. The villa Bed rooms (similar to the semantic bali villa rooms) have recently been improved in a complete make-over. The fittings in the bathvilla rooms are ultra-modern high tech, and clearly designed by someone who does not have to live with them himself. Nowhere to put the soap. A glass panel between bedroom and bathroom ensures that you can keep an eye on your partner at all times.