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Anna Bastiaenen gets her feet wet on the roof tops of a monsoon soaked Hong Kong. Luckily, she has a nice roof over her head to compensate. You catch a glimpse of it on the ascent, as you pass by the Barker Road, where China’s richest spar for the swanky condos: the famous Hong Kong…
Not all of Shanghai is a temple to the New Eastern Mammon. They occasionally need to relax in style. Ali Silk’s the Dhamma queen. How often do you experience a moment of total clarity and peace, a moment so divine that it feels like the planets have perfectly aligned, so that you are in…
Question. Do you sleep at night? Do you slide between Egyptian cotton sheets (satin, if you’re ‘like that’), turn out the light, kiss your better half sweetly and, laying your head on cool, plump goose-down pillows, drift off into eight hours of deliciously soothing slumber? Or do you find yourself awake as a needle, slowly…
With bigger boats, clued-up crews and more adventurous guests, the superyacht industry is setting its sights farther than ever before. Those chartering a luxury yacht in Cannes will always have friends. But a Seadoo safari off Sumbawa or a blowout on the Black Sea are positively on-trend.
It was always the same story. “Everyone with a window seat would be pressed against the glass. The buildings were so close, you could wave at the people doing their washing up. Even the pilots took it as test of skill and balls. Landing at Kai Tak was the biggest thrill in international air travel.”…