Being Haunted by Stalin | Travel Secrets from Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore

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