Posts in category People & Places

Like many London dwellers, I was partially dreading the Olympics. I am not a particularly negative person, but I couldn’t help but think that the …

You’re eighth, you’ve just lost miserably at the egg and spoon race and begin to cry. It’s humiliating, devastating and just not fair – and …

While England has some pretty phenomenal festivals, why not look across the North Sea for some refreshingly different festivals? Amsterdam has plenty, and most of …

Eleven editions of surf, beer, music and friends. Eleven editions of a lively atmosphere that surrounds this coast town in the north of Spain called …

Modern European cuisine with Scandinavian influences. I had to go. Opened in 2007 by Icelander Agnar Sverisson and Xavier Rousset, Texture received its Michelin star …

  It was my great pleasure to go to a screening of Chariots of Fire the other day in anticipation of its re-release, ahead of …

Love/hate/legend/disgrace/superstar If there’s one striker who has delivered this tournament, matching his reputation with brilliant goals it has to be the one and only Balotelli. …

Robert Louis Stevenson once said: “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign”, but there is a place, hidden in Rajasthan, where …

Benjamin Disreali described Valletta as “a city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen”, when he visited it in 1830.  Since that time not much …

What is your idea of the ultimate luxury? Mine would probably be an exotic location, white sand, crystal clear seas and one of those huts …