Photos by Peter Hunt
Paris’s latest retail love affair is with the absolutely gorgeous Merci. A delightful mini department store that manages to be chic and relaxed al at once. The fashion edit is sensational but its other departments covering furniture, interior design, books and more make it a fully rounded 1500 meter gem. For [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
We didn’t do it, but we think we saw who did.
But then again, if you’d been freaked out by a red queen, you might need a quiet puff to calm down too.
We found Alice at Antony, a grand old house in Cornwall that Tim Burton used as a location. After we’d partaken [...]

I am not afraid to admit that I am a Deadhead, so when I heard that The New York Historical Society was hosting an exhibition this summer of artifacts from the forty plus years of The Grateful Dead’s career, I was ecstatic. I decided that the most appropriate time to visit the museum was [...]

Finally after many years of working and even living in Milan, I have found a hotel that I would recommend! Antica Locanda is a boutique hotel that has been open since 1926 with 11 rooms that are all different, some with beautiful planted balconies. With buckets of rickety charm and being located in [...]

Photo Courtesy of Ace Hotel
Ace Hotel
New york’s favourite spot with the groovy set right now, The Ace Hotel’s the only spot to stay or eat in midtown and has a delightful rundown kind of cool to it. The perfect spot breakfast, lunch, coffee or a drink also.
Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street, [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive,” wrote the Scottish novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson in an age before Easyjet and Ryanair. These days, it is, generally, better to arrive, along with one’s luggage, than it is to travel; except when one is touring in a Bentley.
I don’t even like cars, [...]

If you were to ask a nutritionist if it’s humanly possible to gain two kilograms in just three days I think he’d say no. However, I can vouch, through personal experience, that it is entirely doable. Such is the magic of the Great Barrier Reef’s Bedarra Island that for weeks after our return I shall [...]

Photos by Peter Hunt
The bargain of Venice is the 7-day Vaporetto ticket at 50 euros - steep to start with, but terrific value if you make a point of chugging up and down the Grand Canal to all the museums (although it would take months to visit them all) and going to as many of [...]