Rooms from £41 (riadbamboo.com) Riad Dar Zaman This 18th-century riad in the old town has been refurbished as a four-room guesthouse with African artworks and soft Berber rugs.
Inside, my room was small and basic, but recently refurbished.
So it seems this year the Blairs are off to Barbados to stay with either (depending on your choice of daily newspaper) top Christian and Wimbledon a cappella ace Sir Cliff Richard (a £3 million mansion) or leading Tory backer and JCB digger maestro Sir Anthony Bamford at his Heron Bay paddette (no price available, but recently refurbished for countless millions).
Among tour operator Noble Caledonian's fleet of vessels is the Island Sky, a small, elegant ship that was refurbished last year.
Yesterday he boasted that sales in the stores refurbished so far were up 3%-5 3%-5%
At the Subhas (doubles from £25 per night, subhasgroup.com), where we stay, only one wing is so far refurbished, but the welcome is friendly, and we're pampered with room-service breakfasts of dosai or warm roti, with vegetable curry, spicy sambol, fruit and tea.
Rugby will remain at a refurbished, larger capacity Ravenhill, while the Gaelic Athletic Association will receive millions to improve facilities at Casement Park in West Belfast.
Such is the cloud of controversy hanging over Manchester's recently refurbished Central Library, and revelations that have come to light thanks to a Freedom of Information request.
The Machrihanish Golf Club's old clubhouse, which had been converted into a pub in the 1970s, has been refurbished and renamed the Old Clubhouse Pub, and eight two-bedroom cottages have been built right by the shore on Machrihanish Bay.
It's full of period appeal, from the main arched courtyard to the open fire and mounted antlers in the cosy lounge, and the interior has been smartly refurbished, with bunk rooms ranged along deep-red panelled corridors.
This is seen by Israel as an attempt to soften the insistence of President George Bush's administration that the reforms include his own removal from power.Mr Sharon maintains that any refurbished security apparatus must be run by a Palestinian untarnished by terror.
