This February, I hope you take yourself out on the best date around: the one with yourself. I’ve featured some of my absolute favourite solo date ideas in London and hope you have the best time celebrating yourself.

It’s often said that women’s romantic relationships mirror those with their fathers. But mine have more closely resembled my difficult relationship with my mother. The men I’ve loved have been brilliantly creative, independent, reticent, and emotionally distant, sharing too many similarities with her to call it a coincidence.

Housed in the former Olympic Palace Hotel, the mid-century NEW Hotel was stripped down and decorated using many re-purposed materials from the original interior. This five-star boutique hotel perfectly encapsulates the history of this ancient city while incorporating cutting-edge design and technology.

Imagine a boutique hotel where you can roam among an endless trove of palm trees, indulge in scrumptious Moroccan delicacies, and take in millions of stars from one of the many swimming pools.