Small it might be, but Stavanger is a city of startling variety, from its beautiful 19th-century Old Town of white wooden cottages, and vibrant, colourful waterside with its bars and glamorous shops, to a stateof- the-art concert hall, fine arts museum and breathtaking 12th-century cathedral – the oldest in Norway.
The glamorous shopping alley of Via del Corso looks like a skinnier Fifth Avenue.
It is the most glamorous shopping district in Tokyo and one of the best-known in the world.
They rejected numerous bids before one of them took a flier on a man known mostly for his glamorous shopping malls: Aras Agalarov of the Crocus Group.
After all, if we're doing tick-lists of what you can get from a destination, what's not to like about opulent hotels, glorious sunshine, fine food and glamorous shopping?
Abbington, who lives in Hertfordshire with Freeman and their two young children, says that, "When you're wandering around the glamorous shop-floor set, you forget you're in Neasden.
The Grand Hotel le Florence (www.hotel-florence-nice.cote.azur.fr) is in the heart of the city, perfect for a spot of people-watching and the glamorous shopping streets.
Even the city's glamorous shopping district around the Via del Corso and the Piazza di Spagna harbors a few noteworthy cultural destinations like the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, the house where the English poet Keats finally succumbed to tuberculosis.
Mark Dummett, business and human rights researcher at Amnesty International, said: "The glamorous shop displays and marketing of state-of-the-art technologies are a stark contrast to the children carrying bags of rocks, and miners in narrow manmade tunnels risking permanent lung damage.
Look out for The imposing plaza and cathedral at Vitoria-Gasteiz; Pamplona's compact historic centre, famous for July's bull run; the Riviera feel of Biarritz, with period promenades, elegant hotels and pounding surf; glamorous shopping and restaurants in St Jean-de-Luz Jean-de-Luz Jean-de-Luz San Sebeaches; smander fiseafoodillateSan Sebastiàna, Zumaya or Bermeo.
Now imagine yourself in a sort of glamorous shopping mall.
