Blog posts about hotel at Permanent Tourist

Save your money for fun stuff and stay at a Premier Inn when you’re in London. Chain hotels, but excellent locations, high standards and free wifi.

If you drive up to the far north west of Scotland from Inverness, you’ll probably pass the Garvault Hotel: touted as the most remote hotel in mainland Britain.

As a Britischer, I am often asked for suggestions by people who plan on visiting London: where to eat, what they really must see, and where there are good hotels. I had been planning on writing a much longer and more explanatory guide of places which I really like to see, and will indeed do […]

Jo and I visited Graubünden (again) for our anniversary this year, and settled on the Hotel Seehof in Arosa.

The first set of photos from a portrait session in the Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic in Montreux

A long exposure photograph of the Giessbach waterfall near Brienz in full torrent.

My wife Jo in our hotel room during a trip to Flims (canton Graubünden) on our second wedding anniversary.

Through Jo’s contact with the Whisky Experience, with whom she is working, we arranged a photoshoot for Scottish folk music band Càirdeas this weekend at the Hotel Schweizerhof in Lucerne. The guys come over from Scotland on a regular basis to play gigs at places like the Pickwick chain of British pubs and at whisky […]

This was the view from my hotel room in Victoria. As a Londoner (I was born in St. Thomas’ Hospital and brought up during the first six years of my life in south London), this view isn’t just a pile of bricks, but a reminder of a childhood home in the 70s, where whitewashed brick […]