At fashion boutique Bodice, owner Ruchika Sachdeva offers androgynous design, unconventional cuts and uses traditional methods such as block printing.
Horseback tours in Andalucia Almohalla 51, a boutique guesthouse in the Andalucian town of Archidona, is launching food tours on horseback from spring.
The problem with taking your 10-month-old baby on holiday to a luxury, five-star boutique hotel is that the magnitude of this fact leaves them cold.
Jennifer Cox, author of Around the World in 80 Dates Small boutique hotels and B&Bs are often run by eccentrics who like spending time with their guests – maybe over a nightcap, though I've had them introduce me to their friends and take me to parties.
"The recent opening of a Vivienne Westwood boutique and the creativity coming out of the renowned fashion school at Northumbria University certainly bears Parisian comparison".
Where there were once elaborate homes, ski lodges, spas, restaurants and boutique hotels, there are now just gigantic scraped rectangles of red earth, with the great shadows of charred and crippled trees falling across them.
In the last three years, Britain has seen an explosion of low-key, home-grown holiday options, from tipis in Welsh valleys offering comforts normally associated with a boutique hotel to environmentally-sound log cabins in forests.
Stay at The Hotel Hollmann Beletage (Köllnerhofgasse 6, +43 1 961 1960, hollmann-beletage.at; doubles €120) budapestwinter.com Mamaison (mamaison.com) has a winter warmer package at boutique Budapest hotel Andrassy for €281 for two nights.
In Italy, small boutique hotels are often on back streets, tucked into forgotten corners of quaint, quiet neighbourhoods.
JAMAICA Stay seven nights at the elegant Coyaba Beach Resort, a boutique beach-front resort just 15 minutes east of Montego Bay, Jamaica's second largest city, from £915 (saving £100) with Kuoni Travel (01306 747002; kuoni.co.uk).
From a range of venues – Medieval Halls, City Walls, theatres, galleries and boutique cinemas, ASFF not only offers visitors a change to engage with new filmmakers from across the world, but also to enjoy one of Britain's best loved cities.
