Christmas is about creating light amid the winter darkness. It’s about slowing down, slowing right down, until you start to feel – an experience that can be joyous, painful, or both. At the start of the...
When things go shaky, I seek the comfort of order and structure; and where better to find this than in clean, green Zurich. This largest of Swiss cities straddles two rivers – the Limmat and the...
In 2015, I spent ten days in Japan discovering the local tea culture, and I remember every moment vividly. But ask me what I did yesterday, as we huddle in our homes from the...
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 Emmanuel...
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...