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An exciting glimpse of this year’s ICEHOTEL suites
Every year, artists from all over the world are drawn to the small Arctic village of Jukkasjärvi on the shores of the Torne River. The attraction is the magnetic pull of the ICEHOTEL, a world-famous...
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Island style: Luxury and boutique hotels in the Azores
Think of the Azores and your first image may be of rugged volcanic islands jutting from the ocean, or of pleasant walks in the sunshine along quiet lanes bordered by blooming hydrangeas. The...
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Notes from the field – Svalbard, Norway
There are few places on earth that even the most seasoned of travellers will have felt privileged to have visited, and one of these destinations is the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. A joy to...
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Put quite simply the Azores are stunning
Put quite simply the Azores are stunning. Only a three and a half hour flight from the UK the nine islands that rise from the middle of the Atlantic are bathed in the warmth of the Gulf Stream and so...
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Exploring Puglia – along Italy’s heel
Puglia offers a refreshingly different side of Italy, compared to the well-worn paths around Tuscany, Rome and the Amalfi Coast. With its location at the south-eastern tip of the country, it’s hardly...
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October 2016’s Sunvil Supper Club – Fried Neopolitan Pizza
The fried pizza is a typical street food in Naples. This method of frying pizza bases is how Neopolitans have made pizza at home for generations in order to recreate the authentic taste found in a...
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November 2016’s Sunvil Supper Club – Janssons frestelse
This dish, also known as ‘Jansson’s temptation’ is said to have been named for Pelle Janzon, a food loving Swedish opera singer of the early 20th century. The recipe was published for the first time in...
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Notes from the field – Svalbard, Norway
Our Greece expert, Stella, swapped the golden beaches and olive-clad hillsides of her beloved Greek islands to holiday in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago 807 miles south of the North Pole. Svalbard...
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February 2017’s Sunvil Supper Club – Feijoada Choco
As a celebratory dish, Feijoada is traditionally served on Saturday afternoons or for Sunday lunch and intended to be a leisurely midday meal. It is a stew of Portuguese origin and normally made with...
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The Algarve – Our Top 10 Cultural attractions
Portugal is a country with a rich culture and beautiful landscapes that will take your breath away. The Algarve, the country’s southernmost region, has these attractions in abundance. It is a...
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April 2017’s Sunvil Supper Club – Sicilian-style Chicken (Pollo ai Profumi di...
This dish is full of the exotic flavours of Sicily, echoing the island’s turbulent past when various rulers – Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Spanish to name a few – left a strong imprint on everything from...
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May 2017’s Sunvil Supper Club – Croquetas de Jamón Serrano
Croquetas de Jamón are a common sight on bar counters and in homes across Spain, served as tapas. One of the most popular stories concerning the origins of tapas dates back to the 13th century. King...
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The Alentejo – hidden Portugal
A short drive from the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, is a deeply rural, fascinating area of countryside, full of wild flowers, cork forests, rolling hills, small hilltop villages built from ancient...
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Top Five Algarve Festivals
The Portuguese love a good party – everything from carnival parades to intimate village festivals celebrating their favourite local food. Whatever time of year you visit the Algarve, you’re bound to...
View ArticleThe food of the Algarve, Portugal’s southernmost region
Plentiful seafood and fish – as fresh as it can get – are the foundations of the Algarve’s mouthwatering cuisine. All sorts of fish and shellfish end up on the grill, anything from clams and cockles to...
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Introducing the ICEHOTEL Suites for 2017/18
Every winter when the snow has set on the ground, a new ICEHOTEL is created on the shore of the Torne river in Jukkasjärvi, Swedish Lapland using frozen ice harvested from the neighbouring waterway. It...
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September 2017 Sunvil Supper Club – Jordskokksuppe (Jerusalem artichoke soup)
Jerusalem artichokes, known as jordskokk in Norwegian, were first cultivated by the Native Americans as a food source. The earliest record of the Jerusalem artichoke in Norway was described in 1694....
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Sunvil’s travel experts pick their top breaks for Spring 2018
Spring forward to one of our many favourite destinations in 2018 While summer is the most popular season for a holiday, the team at Sunvil can also offer you great holidays during the spring months. In...
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October 2017 Sunvil Supper Club – Biff à la Lindström (Swedish beef burgers)
This is one of the great classics of Swedish cuisine and deservedly so. The dish is named after Henrik Lindström who was raised by a Swedish family in St Petersburg and later became a prominent...
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November 2017 Sunvil Supper Club – Pinchos Morunos (Spanish pork skewers)
Pinchos Morunos is a Moorish-derived cuisine typical of the Spanish autonomous communities of Andalucia and Extremadura. It consists of small cubes of meat threaded onto a skewer (Spanish: pincho)...
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