On the road to Amalfi; Hotel San Pietro challenges the imagination. Its semi-circular terrace has enfolding walls of glass. Its ceiling burgeons with greenery and incandescent flowers.

When holidaymakers disperse, only the deckchairs remain. The Beach and Grand Hotel at Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

In the high mountains of Samos - home of Pythagoras; on the Eastern Aegean.

Hotel San Pietro: Blasted into the cliff face, Facing the Tyrrhenian Sea. A creation of Positano-born Carlo Cinque.

Hotel Villa Franca, Positano: On Italy's Amalfi Coast.

Through a railway carriage window. At the Canton/New Territories border, HongKong.