With a hip-hop artist’s enthusiastic chatter in one ear and Jimi Hendrix screaming into the other, one could be forgiven in thinking that I had recently travelled to Los Angeles…in a DeLorean. However, I couldn’t […]
The days are getting longer and dare I say it, sunnier. This can only mean that spring is rearing it’s big, beautiful, flowered head and bringing with it some new-seasoned cheer into what was, for […]
Throughout the month that I recently spent on Madeira, the subject of wine came up frequently. This was largely due to my repeated purchasing of the stuff, be it in a restaurant, bar, supermarket or […]
The tragedy that unfolds in Barry Manilow’s era-defining song, ‘Copacabana’ is undoubtedly a sad one. Lola, the promising but naive young showgirl loses the love of her life Tony, to the lecherous villain Rico in […]
Combine jungle trekking with luxury accommodation at this exclusive retreat in Malaysian Borneo. Who needs an alarm clock when you have a long tail macaque scratching at your window? It’s not every day you get […]
The concept of perfection has been tossed around since Plato’s time, when the Ancient Greek would rabbit on about his theory of Forms, luring untutored people into his cave where he’d cast shadows on the […]
I’ve never been a god-fearing person; however, I do often wonder about the quality of the bar in the afterlife. I imagine there would be nothing more rewarding than an effervescent brew sliding down your […]
I had read a lot about the Surf Lodge before I came: about the summer series of free gigs; about the parties peppered with famous faces; about how this place was integral to Montauk’s transformation […]
Begin with a basil martini. It’s as good as the Kappa Paloma, which owned me at first sip, but the basil. . .the basil achieves an imbibe-able breakthrough in martini magic. Much like the place […]
Peking Duck is one of the most popular dishes in Chinese cuisine. It is famous for its crispy skin and juicy meat served with the traditional accompaniments of pancakes, spring onion, cucumber and plum sauce. […]
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