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In the summer I received an email describing West London Girl as ‘quite the girl; gold-digging, unmarried, gagging for it.’ The email went on to advise WLG to ‘spread her wings’ and head abroad as ‘anyone who is anyone knows that playboys and rich men don’t hang around in June, July and August.’
That would mean jetting off to the likes of Monte Carlo, Saint Tropez or Capri and checking into a ludicrously expensive hotel. Surely it would be better to find a play boy or sugar daddy in London to take me away, I was tempted to reply.
‘One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things,’ Henry Miller once said. It is certainly a better argument than WLG’s personal advisor’s argument for jetting off when we should be giving up our luxuries in these difficult times. Travel and change refreshes the mind, so we return to home and work reinvigorated.
It’s all very well going away, but there’s no point taking out a second mortgage for a five-star holiday or slumming it in a basic hotel; both of these options are the sure-fire way to stress rather than challenge your mind. So what’s the solution? I think I’ve found it (and no, it doesn’t involve hanging out in bars at The Sanderson or Zuma in the hope of picking up a squillionaire): luxury travel members-only club Travesse provides exclusive access to exceptional discounts of up to 70% off luxury holidays, hotels and city breaks, carefully selected by their team of experts. Plus, membership is completely free.
So I’ve signed up and am now choosing my winter destination. I think I’ll be going skiing (for a healthy body as well as a healthy mind) in either Courchevel, St Moritz or St Anton… I’ve also noticed that Travesse is running a competition to win £750 off my holidays. Fingers crossed.
