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Seeing into the future helps when you’re making time move smoother for everybody. All round luxury tinkerer, George Bamford, launching the world’s first company to offer fully customised steel sports watches a decade back, obviously could see a massive potential market. His brand, Bamford Watch Department, has earnt a reputation within the timepiece fraternity as…
“The living need charity more than the dead” so stated the US poet George Arnold. Why am I mentioning charity whilst describing a Welsh hotel in 200 acres? Well, Bodysgallen Hall is one of three hotels that were donated to the National Trust, a charity, to ensure their long-term protection. So a stay at this…
As Scotch whisky reinvents itself, Japan struggles to keep up with demand and the American whiskey scene is like a joyous Spaghetti Western–with strangers and unexpected heroes taking pot shots at the Sheriffs, breaking all the rules and generally having a rootin’ tootin’ time–‘whisky vision’ is suddenly less myopic. Somewhat less restrained than the Scots…
England’s rural idyll has got a lot to answer for: the sweet promise of bucolia, of quaint English greens and rolling fields and sad shire horses dragging iron ploughs. Village fetes and maypoles, hay bales being slung at harvest time, damsels drinking cider from earthenware. Is it really such a paradise or just a big romanticised fib…
No, honestly, I mean it this time. Please, you have to believe me. Yes, I know I always say this is the ‘one’. But this time I’m for real. It was special. It was magical. Things happened to me I’ve never experienced before. I felt like a new man. Fuck, I felt like a new…
Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whisky, the ‘Orkney Single Malt with Viking Soul’, is teaming up with Lusso to offer readers the chance to win four tickets to their Midwinter Social on Thursday 24 November in London. On Thursday 24 and Friday 25 November Highland Park is taking over The Boiler House at The Old…
Nostradamus predicted that ‘Ibiza will be the Earth’s final refuge’, because apparently even a small thing like Armageddon can’t stop the fun. And if you’re looking for an escape from the real world, Ibiza has it all: sunset sundowners and disco sunrises, lairy bar crawls and every kind of nightclub. The communal fungasm on the…
Wales isn’t a place I ever wanted to go. Ever. And I even like leeks, rugby and Tom Jones. I’ve been there and I know there are some really nice places but… Wales! Then I found two destinations that showed me what an ass I am. Okay, think an exquisite 17-course tasting menu. Think a…
In the film Showgirls (1995), the heroine says she purchased her dress at “Ver-sayse”, an indication that the lowly stripper was moving up in the world, even if she couldn’t pronounce Versace correctly. Moving up in the world is now literal for anyone staying in Dubai with the opening of the five-star Palazzo Versace Dubai.…
A pleasant 30 minute drive from Malaga International Airport and you’re in Marbella, on southern Spain’s Costa del Sol. The Sierra Blanca mountain range is the backdrop to 27 km of sandy Mediterranean beaches, villas, hotels and golf courses. West of Marbella town, the “Golden Mile” of prestigious nightclubs and coastal estates lead to Puerto…