Style & Travel

What women want

19th September, 2007

Gentlemen, I’m going to let you in on one of the great mysteries of life.

Hairs and graces

19th September, 2007

Years ago I was an enthusiastic patron of Piers Adam’s establishments.

The gite’s a-jumping

19th September, 2007

Stuffed animals

12th September, 2007

My dog has cancer. We found a lump the size of a goji berry on his paw. Tomorrow the vet operates and I’ve been telling anyone who will listen about our sad news.

Fashion dressed as art

12th September, 2007

The best-dressed women are usually to be found at contemporary art shows. They pull rank at the Venice Biennale or Basel.

Bonkers for Honkers

12th September, 2007

I was recently offered the chance to go to Hong Kong. Our small group was to have luxury spa treatments and fine cuisine, and fly on Oasis, the new low-fare long-haul airline.

Style and Travel

5th September, 2007

Charlotte Metcalf talks to Theo Fennell about his revolutionary exhibition

Style

5th September, 2007

Alistair Scott says go to Docklands for the best in stress-free travel

Armchair Traveller

5th September, 2007

Simon Heffer finds a perfect little treat in Ambonnay

Having your cake and eating it

29th August, 2007

Belinda Archer finds Madeira is not just for the blue-rinse brigade

The wonder of it all

29th August, 2007

Jonathan Ray samples Selfridges’ newly opened Wonder Room

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