Style & Travel

Morocco’s seaside

22nd August, 2007

The most memorable thing about Orson Welles’s film Othello — he gave one of his hammier performan-ces as the Moor, Micheál MacLiammóir played Iago as an old queen and Desdemona was completely lifeless even before her death — was the ramparts of Essaouira and the sea pounding below them. Welles shot much of the film here on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and the town of Essaouira (then called Mogador under the French protectorate) showed its gratitude by naming a square after him.

Uninviting emails

22nd August, 2007

The email whooshes into the inbox. I click it open, thinking, ooh, goodie, let’s have a look ... ‘Save the Date’ it orders. My heart sinks.

Helsinki and back

15th August, 2007

Snow was falling the only time I visited Helsinki before. I remember a concert in the Finlandia Hall (Sibelius surely?); reindeer meat; silver birch trees; smiling poets telling me dolefully that it was very unlucky in Finland to have only one drink (or two, or three ...);

Tie one on

15th August, 2007

Inexplicably — I ask him to explain, he can’t — Michael Drake wasn’t wearing a tie when I met him at his Clerk­enwell factory recently. This was contrary of him, since Drake is Britain’s neckwear king.

Style and Travel

8th August, 2007

Alistair Scott’s definitive guide to the world’s hottest festival city

The Spirit of Cowes

1st August, 2007

I am not a sailor, but a couple of years ago I was invited to help crew a racing yacht across the Atlantic. The voyage home took 27 days, and I spent 26 of them hanging off the back of the boat throwing up.

Fashion’s hidden secret

25th July, 2007

Dylan Jones discovers the Milan that exists behind closed doors

The rein in Spain

18th July, 2007

Samantha Weinberg goes riding through Andalucia

Dear Diary

18th July, 2007

Bryan Forbes says that journals are revealing — about their writers

Our allotment time

12th July, 2007

Clarke Hayes goes in search of London’s promised lands

To the manor born

11th July, 2007

Harry Mount visits the grand houses of Ireland’s Georgian past

Nothing doing

11th July, 2007

Christa D’Souza says fighting boredom is a vital, but endangered life skill

The beerage

4th July, 2007

The beerage

Taken for a ride

4th July, 2007

Shena Guild converts her husband and son to the saddle in Connemara

Snuff is enough

4th July, 2007

Snuff said

Style and Travel

27th June, 2007

Armchair Traveller

27th June, 2007

Brick Lane booty

20th June, 2007

Style

20th June, 2007

Armchair Traveller

20th June, 2007