Angle & Curve enters the UK market with its stunning range of designer headphones, Life for music and style lovers just became a little more complicated, thanks to the arrival of the Classic Headphone, by Angle & Curve. Created in-house by Angle & Curves team of Covent Garden London-based designers and audio engineers, the Classic…
Not usually renowned as a hotbed of artistic talent, Birmingham appears to be on the point of adding to its artistic heritage and surpassing such notable sons as, er Ozzy Osbourne and Nigel Mansell, with the emergence of the artist Paul Normansell. Unlike the ex-Formula One Champion and self-promoting heavy metal enthusiast, Normansell appears to…
Discreetly tucked away in a lush corner of Antigua’s enchantingly unspoilt south coast, a world away from the Islands less salubrious resorts, Carlisle Bay remains one of the most talked-about hotels in the Caribbean. It has won praise and much decoration for its pioneering style, vision and service, including Tatler Travel Guides Hotel of the…
I am not a number. I am a free man. Suggestions of The Prisoner may not be the most flattering comparison for a holiday destination but: a) that was my first reaction on seeing the sprawling, orange-toned “private village” of the Sani Resort; and b) five minutes into the stay, you realise you’re anything but…
I open the letter. The Silk Room. One hundred years. Family. Tuesday. Typically nondescript. I better have another Belgian truffle. Brain food. Anyway, I’m booked in for a body wrap on Monday; clearly not something the clever-clogs who came up with moment on the lips, lifetime on the hips ever discovered. He must be new.…
Thanks to the impending traffic and tourist chaos, the thought of escaping London on the weekend of the royal nuptials is becoming more attractive by the second. That doesn’t mean, of course, you won’t want to sit in front of the telly and have a good snigger at the vulgar hat choices of minor European…
Ok, I’ll admit it before any of you readers figure it out for yourselves. I am a snob. Not the sort of snob who prefers dukes to dustmen, but the sort of snob who feels that if you can’t afford to buy a particular car, then you’d better not drive that sort of a car.…
The Selous Safari Company are offering an unparalleled safari and beach holiday in Tanzania. Visitors can enjoy the Selous Game Reserve and Ruaha National Park, then retreat to a beach-front cottage at Ras Kutani on the Indian Ocean. Perfect for couples and families. There are options to enjoy all of South Tanzania, whether on foot,…
I had been to the W Leicester Square before. In June 2011, the hotel launched its (W)riters’ Library, commissioning ten authors to choose their favourite books to populate the shelves of the hotel’s library. I was one of those authors, joining Geoff Dyer, David Nicholls and Naomi Alderman (amongst others) at the glitzy opening bash.…
I looked out of my room, down on to the turning circle in front of the hotel and witnessed an eternal moment of fatherhood. A man, a little bow-shouldered, stands waiting to go home, back to real life, while his two children run round and round him, going faster and faster, giggling louder and louder,…