Simon Sebag Montefiore | Being Haunted by Stalin

July 16, 2024

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prize-winning historian and bestselling author, and he shares an abundance of travel secrets with Tanya Rose this week. 

Simon shares the hotel in Italy you should avoid, top tips for finding the best coffee wherever you’re visiting and why his best meal was in a shack in Romania. 

Plus, Simon offers a substantial list of hotel recommendations across the world, the sinister story of eating with a dentist turned warlord and where you can find the best negroni in London. 

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PLACES MENTIONED:

• Moscova Hotel, Moscow
• Jerusalem, Israel
• The King David, Jerusalem
• The American Colony, Jerusalem
• Tbilisi, Georgia
• Borgo Egnazia Hotel, Southern Italy
• The Carlyle New York
• Hotel Sacher, Vienna
• Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid
• Hotel Alfonso XIII, Seville
• Ciragan Palace Kempinski, Istanbul
• The Peninsula, Istanbul
• Hotel Hassler Roma
• Pożegnanie z Afryką Cafe (Out of Africa) Krakow, Poland
• Villa Maroc, Essaouira, Morocco
• Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco 
• Royal Mansour Marrakech Hotel, Morocco
• Mauritania, Northwest Africa
• Romania
• Verdura, Sicily
• Mediterraneo, London
• Batumi, Georgia
• Sokhumi, the Republic of Abkhazia
• Ghana, West Africa
• Hotel Kavkaz, Czechia
• Soho Beach House, Miami

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