We are big fans of the long weekend – be it in the UK or abroad. As wonderful as it is to go away for a couple of weeks, I find it very easy to relax quickly in just a couple of days. We’re also lucky to have found some incredible places on our travels.
Here’s my perfect long weekend…
Thursday after work
An early supper at The Palomar or The Barbary before leaving town…
Drinks in the Concorde lounge followed by a first class overnight flight…
Friday
A tour of the Muscat mosque before breakfast at The Chedi and a swim in one of their stunning pools…
An afternoon mooch around the fabulous monuments and museums of Washington DC…
Sunset on the dunes at Qasr al Sarab…
Before a night in The Norman Tel Aviv…
Saturday
Then a morning float in the Dead Sea, lunch at Machneyuda…
A lazy afternoon at the Kinsterna in the Peloponnese…
Evening books and sundowners on our private island in Maine…
Sunday
Blue Mountain coffee and views at Strawberry Hill in Jamaica…
Lunch and an afternoon of tasting fine Stellenbosch and Franschoek wines…
An evening stroll along the coastal path to a little smugglers cove in Cornwall…
Monday
Then breakfast at Cliveden House and straight back to the office fully refreshed…
What I really need now is a private jet – mainly because due to those dastardly connections this is 4.5 days of commercial flying time and that just won’t do!
These ideas only scrape the surface, I could do a fortnights itinerary working my way back through places we love, and that’s before looking at My Wishlist Board on Pinterest to visit some new places!
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Oh heck YES! This is why weekends were invented!
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They all need to be like this, none of the dross and admin stuff that we save up for the weekend!
I love long weekends! Oman is on my wish list and the Chedi looks fantastic!
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The Chedi is a #poolgoals kind of place – 104 metres long!
OMG Anna, I think this might be my perfect weekend too! We have very similar taste 🙂
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Tasteful and reassuringly expensive taste! But this weekend gone I slept 36 hours, and that was a perfect weekend too!
Love this idea! Don’t know how I’d ever manage to narrow it down enough but I’m going to pinch a few of your ideas – Stellenbosch wine tasting coming up in two weeks time and I’m hoping to fit in a Washington trip next spring.
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In case you need any inspiration for vineyards – Tokara and Vergelegen were my favourite vineyards, and food at Tokara is great, as well as the place in the photo above and also at Morgenhof! Enjoy!
AH-mazingggg! Love all your places, and makes me think of all the amazing places I want to head to too x
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Thank you, always more places to visit!
This really would be perfect wouldn’t it?? Straight from the Lincoln monument to the dunes…
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If only concorde was still flying, would be so much easier!
it does sound perfect:) #travellinkup
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If money were no object!
Lots of amazing places and experiences on your whirlwind jaunt! Now if only we could time travel too!
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it would make things such a lot easier!
That would be a perfect weekend, but I think I’d need another weekend straight after just to recover 😉
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back to work for a break right! if only!
Having been buried neck deep in dreaded moving house / moving country admin for weeks on end any one of these would be a break welcome right now – as you would say some Vitamin Sea is much needed over here 🙂
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Me too, need warm sand and sea breeze ASAP!
What a great concept! I’ve hardly visited ANY of your choices, but I can tell you my mental cogs are grinding trying to visualise my own version of the perfect global weekend.. 🙂
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Glad to be able to help! I think the global weekend is the new loooooong weekend
quite an ambitious itinerary! but I love all the wining, dining and poolside time 🙂 thanks for linking up!
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Possibly a tad more exhausting that the photos make it look! But variety is the spice of life!
Haha what a perfect getaway! This is exactly why apparating needs to be invented
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Bloggers would always have plenty of content then too!
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the sky’s the limit!