Pitti Uomo, the most celebrated event in menswear, took place in Florence this week (13-16 June 2023). Not only is menswear back this year, with sales skyrocketing from the US to Korea, but also the...
What I like about the Spanish capital is that it is small enough in the city centre to walk to most places. Local still reigns. It's a city of neighbourhoods, or barrios, each...
To live in harmony with the landscape and the community links us to a deeper essence in life. Deluz y Companía, the Cantabrian restaurant group with four restaurants in Madrid and another four in...
Hotels in Paris are aplenty. Safety and refuge is what I seek in a hotel. In turn that implies that the décor is aesthetic, the staff welcoming, and the very act of walking...
On the rue de Charonne, in the backstreets of Paris' 11th district, just north of the Gare de Lyon, is a cluster of four extraordinary places to eat and drink: Séptime, Clamato, Tapisserie and Séptime...
If I could live anywhere in Paris, I would chose an apartment overlooking the Maurice Gardette Square – the largest patch of green in the 11th arrondissement, shaded by mature trees, and with green...
I spent a month in August 2022 in Castell'Azzara, Southern Tuscany. I worked as a volunteer at ASHA, the Alchemy School of Healing Arts, just 2km outside the town centre. Castell'Azzara is a 'mountain' town perched on the edge...
The portici or shady arcades of the Italian city of Bologna came as a welcome relief; first from the torrid sun and then, when I returned to the city four weeks later, the torrential rain....
I feel at home on the streets of Marseille. Maybe because I'm an exile (by choice). "Marseille is, and always has been, the port of exiles .… whoever disembarks in the port is inevitably...