Excellence Luxury Villas
Great milestones such as anniversaries deserve something a little special, such as a beautiful hotel experience, great English countryside, fine dining and lots of romance. For our 20th anniversary celebration we had chosen to spend the night at South Lodge, a grandiose and impressive country house near Horsham in Sussex. Just under an hour from ...
Sarah Millican is appearing in theatres all over the UK, and I managed to catch her at GLive in Guildford for a wonderful night of ribald laughter. Millican is in fart popping, expletive laden style in her new show “Control Enthusiast”. She exposes ours and her personal foibles with endearing frankness, often accompanied by little ...
The local elephants often stroll past the South Luangwa (Zambia) office in the mornings. As soon as we hear a certain kind of rustling of the trees outside, we know elephants are around. It always gets us excited; the whole Kapani team rushes outside to watch the parade of these giant animals past the Safaris ...
Makes 24 275g self raising flour ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp mixed spice ½ tsp cinnamon 75g caster sugar 1 egg 250ml milk 75g butter, melted 1 x 411g jar mincemeat 75g raisins 1 Preheat the oven to gas mark 6/200C/180fan. Grease a muffin tin. 2 Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ...
The Resort: Zermatt (Switzerland). This world class summer and winter resort has so much tradition and heritage as well as a magnificent very near neighbour; the spectacular Matterhorn Mountain which overlooks the entire region. Everything is here with a combination of a great selection of restaurants, bars, coffee shops and other interesting diversions, plus shops ...
Santamaria Shirt Makers in Notting Hill Gate is the genteel place to have a bespoke shirt made to measure. At this lovely little boutique just off Pembridge Square Gardens you can create the ultimate shirt, choosing from a huge list of gorgeous fabrics and be fitted to perfection. Santamaria Shirts in London is owned and ...
The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio looks good in the photographs, but what struck me was how much better it looked in the flesh, or steel. It has a presence and style that most SUV’s fail to match and perfoms like a sports car. A genuine pleasure to drive and holds the road like no other ...
Koenigsegg has outperformed existing production car speed records during a practice session in the groundbreaking Koenigsegg One:1 Megacar, headlined by a 0-300-0 kmh time of just 17.95 seconds. Koenigsegg stunned the world in September 2011 when it set a Guinness World Record time of 21.19 seconds for the 0-300-0 kmh run in the Koenigsegg Agera ...
DB27 D Polo Watch To mark its first ever sponsorship of a Polo tournament, the De Bethune Princely Polo Cup held in Vaduz on August 29th and 30th, the Manufacture presents a 10-piece limited edition of the DB27. Exclusively developed for the game of Polo, the DB27 D Polo edition can withstand the violent impacts ...
Ashberg House is a striking new residential property created by leading design studio Morpheus London. Situated on Cathcart Road in the heart of Chelsea, Central London, the property spans nearly 9,000 sq ft and is arranged over five floors. The home takes its name and inspiration from the famous Ashberg diamond, an amber-coloured cushion-cut diamond ...
The LC Convertible is Lexus’s first soft-top model and no effort has been spared in ensuring its folding roof meets the highest standards of design and quality. To achieve its goals Lexus used innovative construction, engineering and materials and tested the roof to breaking point, far beyond what might be expected in day-to-day use by ...
I recently attended the launch of a revolutionary hypercar built for the 21st century by a new company called Czinger. In their own words: ‘Czinger represents the pinnacle of automotive engineering, innovation, automotive art and technology-based design.’ In 1916 Cadillac produced the type 53. This is considered to be the first car to use the ...