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.  Don’t forget to follow @travelsecretsthepodcast and remember, you can watch all of our episodes on YouTube. PLACES MENTIONED: Moscova Hotel, MoscowJerusalem, IsraelThe King David, JerusalemThe American Colony, JerusalemTbilisi, GeorgiaBorgo Egnazia Hotel, Southern ItalyThe Carlyle New YorkHotel Sacher, ViennaMandarin Oriental Ritz, MadridHotel Alfonso XIII, SevilleCiragan Palace Kempinski, IstanbulThe Peninsula, IstanbulHotel Hassler RomaPożegnanie z Afryką Cafe (Out of Africa) Krakow, PolandVilla Maroc, Essaouira, MoroccoMamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco Royal Mansour Marrakech Hotel, MoroccoMauritania, Northwest AfricaRomaniaVerdura, SicilyMediterraneo, LondonBatumi, GeorgiaSokhumi, the Republic of AbkhaziaGhana, West AfricaHotel Kavkaz, CzechiaSoho Beach House, Miami Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.