Rome’s Best Picnic Ingredients
One of Rome’s most impressive hamper-friendly shops is Salumeria Roscioli. The staff here will have your choice of picnic ingredients delivered to your hotel if you wish, but it’s more fun to visit, shop and think about staying to dine.
The Buskers Festival in Kiwiland
For 10 days and 11 nights, the streets of this pretty city take on a carnival atmosphere as jugglers, contortionists, musicians, clowns, musicians, stand-up comedians, aerialists, living statues, sideshow artists, acrobats take over the parks and pavements.
The 4 Cats
The 4 Cats Taverna is hidden amongst the tiny alleyways of Barcelona’s gothic quarter.
Surfies’ Pub in Cornwall, England
The Surfies’ Pub You can only reach The Watering Hole at Perranporth by walking over the sand. Expect beach barbies in summer and lots of English men with weirdly un-English tans. It’s a bit of a local secret but everybody is welcome. Visit wateringhole.
Perfume Shopping in Paris
I’ve discovered some of the smaller boutique perfume houses in Paris over recent years, each one with its own unique smells and sensations.
Mykonos – Choose your own adventure
These magnificent white-washed palaces have curved walls, grand views and perfect aquamarine pools. Here you can imagine yourself away from the island’s 100,000-strong throng as you sip on your cocktail of choice and watch the luxury liners cruise across the Aegean.
Flirting With Rome
In Rome on business recently I discovered a wonderful truth. There, all the men flirt with all the women all the time. Flirting is a national pastime, without an age limit, one marinated in good humour and class. Italian men don’t ogle, they smile and chat and make women feel beautiful.
American Spa Treatments – Good Enough to Eat?
Julie Moline tries tomato paste under the heat lamp – and a spritz of red wine. Bored with traditional Swedish massage? Tried the hot-rocks massage, Reiki and reflexology, all of which seem to be hurtling down the far slope of the fad curve? The latest trend at upscale spas involves the use of whole foods […]
The Real Asian New York
Resident Karen Moline gives you the ‘Cheapallonia’ guide to New York’s best Asian neighbourhoods – and they’re all child-friendly. One of the most gratifying reasons to live in New York is being able to avoid the Disneyfication of Times Square – as well as the fact that in this great melting pot you’ll see so […]