Luxury Camping in France
Expect a short walk to a very long (four kilometre) sandy beach and some brilliant local restaurants and cafes at De La Plage.
Indie Cinema Bliss
The Harbour Lights Picturehouse is on the waterfront, blessed by film festivals, and loved by the BBC legend Mark Kermode, film reviewer extraordinaire.
The Super Chemist – John Bell and Croyden
If you can’t find what you need from Boots, check out John Bell and Croyden, who are at 50-54 Wigmore Street and online at http://www.johnbellcroyden.co.uk.
The Religious Shop
Saints and silver, pictures and postcards, and stock good enough for Harry Potter films (true: the stuff here featured in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone).
Alex Billington finds herself agreeing with Coco Chanel – a woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future…
For me, the sense of smell is entwined so tightly with imagination that the two are inseparable…even today, whenever I smell Vetiver by Guerlain I’m reminded of a summer in Greece when I was seventeen, and more specifically, a lovely French man who, for a few months, became intoxicated by me…but more than the man himself, Vetiver reminds me of the first time I understood the effect a woman can have on a man.