If you thought previous Bentleys exemplified precision engineering, you’re due a rethink. The new Mulsanne is a beast in the body of… a barge perhaps. That sounds unflattering and shouldn’t, because it’s a very beautiful, lean, lithe barge. But it’s huge. Frankly it would have to be to feature all the lovely details you’d expect…
Shorty suggested Sheekey’s because: a) he thought I’d get a hick-style kick out of them having a doorman; and b) he’s trying to get out of the Square Mile to spend his bonus so as not to draw attention to the latest seven-figure sum in his account. “I could sit in Sheekey’s in a SS…
“I realise that, Shorty, but where are we going?” “Dinner.” “I know what the evening meal’s called, Shorty, I sometimes have three. But where are we going?” I’ll spare y’all the rest of the conversation, just believe me when I say it went on for quite some time with Shorty chuckling like a hick who’s…
King Air. Even the name suggests a certain regal air of superiority, and when Brian Jones of NAC at Oxford told me that the only C90GT in Europe was stopping by and asked whether I would I like to fly it, you can be sure that I didn’t need asking twice. When photographer Steve and…
Experts come in many forms. When looking to purchase a home, whether it’s to be a main family residence or a weekend bolt hole in the country, we employ the services of a surveyor. No matter how perfect the place may look in your own eyes, it takes the opinion of someone else to actually…
The memo from HQ reads as follows: Olive stones. Very dubious involvement of suspect from Morocco. Go to La Bobadilla. Find out all you can. Sorely tempted to try out my new sedative dart gun on the outward flight full of frightful stags and hens, before I arrive in Malaga. The thought of someone with a…
I don’t know why they have bothered building a big bang machine at Cern, a friend of mine remarked shortly after the Large Hadron Collider blew a majorly expensive electrical circuit, if they want to watch things moving at the speed of light, they should come around my house and watch the gas meter. Admittedly,…
As though connected together, the five sleek jets pivot perfectly around the horizon as a single rolling entity. We pull up into a loop, the G comes on strong, and for a second I wonder if I’m going to regret not wearing a G-suit. Sliding seamlessly into the next manoeuvre, with the five jets holding…
The Ducati 1098 poses something of a question: is it a) a World Super Bike with number plates or b) a road bike that somehow missed the point of road in the name? Either way, it commands the attention in a serious way and that’s just sitting still on the side stand. The looks are…
One doesn’t need much of an excuse to visit Monaco at the best of times, but the Gilded Jewel has just added another reason to take a flight from City Airport; an evening of operatic entertainment aboard Aristotle Onassis’ yacht, the Christina O. During the month of October the ‘O’ is hosting a series of…