“As soon as you get out of the taxi I know what sort of rider you are, I can tell,” said Kevin Begg, owner of Estancia Los Potreros, a 6,000-acre farm an hour outside Cordoba, Argentina’s second largest city. “It sounds corny but as soon as my wife stepped out of the taxi I knew…
Your journey from the toilets of Cheltenham to the sands of Necker can be bumpy and, ultimately, lacking in cheer. Alain de Botton wrote of how we only need to be slightly richer than our immediate peer group to feel contentedly on top. Slightly richer is the key. Any less and we suffer status anxiety.…
The Cinnamon Club First up, the House of Commons’ best kept secret. You suspect when all those right honorables were trying to cover up their expenses claims, the most blacked out phrase was, The Cinnamon Club. Tucked away around the back of Westminster Cathedral, 30 Great Smith Street, the presence of The Cinnamon Club is…
The trip would include a couple of laps of the infamous ‘Nordschleife’ circuit (the old Grand Prix circuit) with a GT1 driver. I would also join one of the pit crews for a racing pit stop. So far, so exciting. It was only after I had agreed to go that I thought to do a…
Evolution is often invisible. Because of the dead-ends that are necessarily pursued in the quest for those next great steps forward, what feels like an advance could ultimately turn out to be just another dodo. A recent stay at the Palazzo Tornabuoni in Florence made me think that this particular innovation in the way the…
Already popular within the United Arab Emirates, it was only a matter of time before Europe got a taste of the Embraer Lineage 1000. Given the spec of the machine, it also won’t be long before you see several more. This first has been brought in by Hangar8 for its charter fleet and it’s a…
The members of the Club of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the SLH, have awarded the Pangkor Laut Resort in Malaysia as its Best Hotel. The awards were presented at the SLH Gala Awards held at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand. The award is presented to the hotel that has exceeded guests” expectations. The…
Recently, aboard an Orient Express train, I met a lady from Zurich. When I told her I was planning a trip to her hometown she asked where I was going to stay. “The Dolder Grand,” I said and she gasped. “Ah, I’ve never been,” she said, “It’s very smart!” Incongruous as this was – we…
It was just amazing, I tell my green-tinged boyfriend. Amazing is a selfish word; it gives nothing, but manages to be scattered liberally across conversation. I probably should have taken him and not my mother. Oh well. The transformation of this Georgian house to a luxury getaway was funded by billionaire Jim Ratcliffe through architects…
Lex van Dam was the brains behind the BBC program Million Dollar Traders, a television series in which he bet $1,000,000 of his own money on the fact that he could teach 8 normals how to trade. The series was captivating, the markets were exciting, the contestants were either flourishing or melting in a dramatic…