‘Frenzied’ and ‘frantic’ are two words that might well spring to mind when you think about Christmas shopping. But at the Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg, situated on the outskirts of Cologne, things couldn’t be calmer or more convivial... From December

Pity poor Prince Johann Wilhelm II. He constructed a palatial pad near Cologne to impress his new wife but died in 1716 before they had the chance to use it. The palace has now been transformed into the rather regal Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg