RevisitRepost: It was three summers ago that I was sitting one evening around a table in Koko Doko in Reims, the champagne capital of France, with Clos Driver Wine Tours, grower champagne producer...
Now that travel has come to a halt – even to the end of the road, I am working on recalibrating my life. A while back, I spent five days on a retreat in the...
The exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, which opened this spring (2020), is a subject that touches all of us, whatever our gender identity. UPDATE: The exhibition closed because of the pandemic, and...
It's been a year since I bought my first limited-edition art photography print – ‘Camelia’ by Andrea Torres Balaguer, which is now in my sitting room, above my desk. It was the last...
Most people book ski trips in winter. I booked a massage at Haeckels, a 'wild fragrance and ecological skincare company' whose lab and treatment rooms are in the seaside town of Margate, on the part...
That time of year came round again: Paris Photo in November. My aim and my desire was to eat at Septime, No 15 in the ranking of the world's top restaurants and tucked away in...
My lunchtime visit to the newly opened Wild by Tart in Ecclestone Yards, near Victoria station, sparked warm memories of holidays in the wilderness, trips to the English countryside and trekking along the windy Atlantic...
A new luxury mindset is emerging. Out goes the starchiness of traditional luxury and in comes 'liberation' luxury. It's all about being curious, flexible and footloose – a feeling that put me on a...
Ancient Iraq. Dates. Art. Cooking. A link made possible by Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz, whose artistic recreation of the winged bull Lamassu stands guard on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square – the plinth...