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Scuba Diving is one of the most fascinating, thrilling, adventurous and exploratory sports that anyone can do. You get to kit up like an aquanaut with high tech gear, generally in gorgeous and sunny locations and explore a brave and wondrous three dimensional new world that is so many times larger than our two dimensional ...
Sports & Leisure Polo, cricket, horse racing, golf, tennis, rowing… we’re a nation obsessed with sport. Every year England hosts world-class sporting events, from tennis and golf to sailing and horse racing, just as it has for centuries. We’ve also hosted the summer Olympics no fewer than three times. So it’s little ...
William Curley is a luxury patissier and chocolatier. – What was your career path prior to starting your own business? I trained as an apprentice at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, I then went on to work in the kitchens off Pierre Koffmann, Raymond Blanc, Marc Meneau and Marco Pierre White. I then went on to ...
For many people, the thought of travelling to Australia for an extended holiday conjures images of Sydney Harbour and Opera House; the cultural hub that is Melbourne, a city that consistently ranks top in surveys of the world’s best quality of life; the vast barren wilderness of the outback, and the Great Barrier Reef coastline. ...
For more than 11 months, it has been home to the UAE’s local motorsport and health and fitness communities – an open access hub of exciting motor racing as well as a range of cycling, running, yoga, family entertainment and much more. But now the pit garage doors of Yas Marina Circuit have been closed ...
The Netherlands is blessed with an abundance of incredible cities. Amsterdam obviously shouts louder than the rest, whether you’re a devout hedonist looking to take advantage of this veritable mecca of decadence, a keen historian eager to explore the capital’s incredible heritage, or an arts buff heading for some of the world’s greatest galleries. Elsewhere, ...
Lord Dukes is a very short cab ride from Victoria station up to the heart of St James. It is beautifully located between the Ritz on Piccadilly and Buckingham Palace, down a lovely little old Victorian London Mews. The doorman greeted us with exquisite manners and gently took all our bags, and us, off to ...
‘It is the personal attention that each guest receives from genuinely friendly and attentive hosts that continually lifts this multi award winning country house towards excellence’ After years of experience across the travel and tourism industry, in 2008, Sharon and Nigel Reed opened Pendragon Country House. It was their mission to create high quality ...
Fraiche in Oxton, Cheshire has been named Britain’s best restaurant, topping The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants. The list, published on Sunday October 19, is compiled by The Sunday Times in association with Harden’s. Now in its fifth year, it is based on 70,000 reviews from more than 6,000 consumers. The Sunday Times Top 100 ...
Linking the world renowned city of Dubrovnik with the virtually unknown tiny historic centre of the inland town of Kranj in Slovenia is more than unusual, but there are elements that they share in addition to just bringing much pleasure and beauty into the equation. Both places are fundamentally historic, well preserved without the ...
Sophie Ellis Bextor is not just a pretty face, though those cheekbones and perfect features are the envy of many a model, she is also balancing a successful pop career with motherhood and glamorous travel. Mother of 4 boys, she has recently launched a new album, Familia, already receiving critical acclaim and for which she ...
What a blessed, fertile, cultured and cultivated island Madeira is. This ‘island of eternal spring’ was a ‘paradise of naturalists’ with its exoticism attracting Thomas Cook and Joseph Banks. I’ts immensely fertile, everything seem to grow here, having been colonised by Henry the Navigator who introduced the sugar cane from Sicily and the Malvesia (Malmsey) ...