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Luxury Caribbean Destination Guide: Where to stay in Barbados With charter flights arriving from the UK several times a day during peak season, and a summer that offers incredible value for money (there is a threat of hurricanes, although as any resident will tell you one hasn’t hit the island in several decades), Barbados ...
True perfection is an extremely rare quality particularly in an object. I have come across it only once; a Ming Dynasty vase, one of a pair; they were made for the Imperial Palace, the owner bizarrely allowing me to handle it; magic. I checked out the British Museum’s world class collection and nothing matched the ...
In the first six months of the 2016 fiscal year, Automobili Lamborghini set a new sales record in its history. With 2,013 cars delivered to customers the company surpassed the 2,000 unit mark for the first time in a half year period. Furthermore, June 2016 has been a record month in the company’s history with ...
An Eclectic Collection of Latin American Craft: From Designer Bowls To Tequila My first encounter with tequila was in a rough Covent Garden pub when it was in its last days as a fruit market. I recall that we put some salt on the backs of our hands, licked it and swallowed the fiery ...
Great hotel, but the star of the show is the chef Paul Evans. You will surely hear much more of him in the future. Paul was brought in to lift the cuisine to the peak of the Eden Hotel Collection’s trophy hotel; Mallory Court, nearby Leamington Spa. Our dinner was outstanding, it was both innovative ...
Bordeaux, oui. Cognac, oui. But Angoulême… Still yes? Unless you’re an avid cartoon fan (I’ll explain more about this later), Angoulême may be somewhat of an enigma. A sign-post flashing past, the “Is it worth us stopping by?” question fleetingly hopscotching through your thoughts. Well, to save such indecision, I’ll answer your question for you. ...
If you’ve had the chance to visit the wonderful Tutankhamun treasures on show at the Saatchi Gallery in London (until 03 May) you may well have been inspired to consider a trip to Egypt. Cairo is one of the world’s most fascinating cities and the Red Sea resorts of Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada are ...
Yves de Contades hopped over to Denmark to take a look at the bespoke luxury designer bikes by Lauge Jensen. A quick flight from London City Airport took me to Billund, Denmark, the home of Lego. Legoland was shut that day, however I was here to look at some beautifully engineered, chrome and gold motorbikes ...
One of the more curious repercussions of the world becoming so much smaller thanks to better international transport connections, is that you almost forget what’s right here on your own doorstep. Far flung destinations, with their white sandy beaches and impossibly blue skies, so often manage to shout louder than good old Blighty. Sometimes, though, ...
Majestic Rolls Royce Black Badge Dawn Drophead Review It was the first sunny day in Spring and I had just taken delivery of the new rolls Royce Black Badge Dawn Drophead to my front door. The faster, gothic version of the Rolls Royce Dawn, for those that want to arrive in style, albeit with a ...
The new Princess R 35 yacht brings Pininfarina’s car design expertise to the sea. This is a worthy rival to the Italian maker Riva and looks set to win many fans of Italian supercars such as Ferrari and Alfa Romeo over to the water. Plus it comes in sports red, sure to turn heads in ...
How bioelectronics will make humans more robotic than ever In 2013, President Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative as a large-scale effort to equip researchers with insights necessary for treating a wide variety of brain disorders like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury. The World Health Organization estimates that devastating brain disorders affect more ...