Published on Metro.co.uk on 2nd July 2018
For many people, the commute to work involves any combination of cars, buses, trains or the dreaded underground.
There are the lucky few who cycle, run or walk – or even better, work from the home office.
But what if there was a more fun way to get to work?
Published on Metro.co.uk on 29th June 2018
We’ve all been there – that desperate moment when we’re picking up the phone to order a takeaway.
Like on those Sunday afternoons after a heavy Saturday night out or, in my case, when I’ve been too disorganised during the week to buy food.
Except, I would – without fail – lament for hours over whether to order a takeaway, and if so, what.
Published on Metro.co.uk on 19th June 2018
I’m not going to lie – when I heard that there was a three-day pizza festival in Italy, where the whole town would effectively be transformed into an open kitchen, I (cue cliche) thought I had died and gone to heaven.
I mean, how can you beat the simplicity of a margherita?
The way the mozarella pulls apart with wild abandon to reveal the intensity of the tomato sauce.
Published on Metro.co.uk on 2nd June 2018
Have you ever wondered what the Queen smells like? I’m talking about her fragrance, obviously.
Me neither. That is, until I set foot inside Floris, the perfumer to the Queen based in London’s St James.
At present, it holds two royal warrants – one from the Queen as perfumers and one from the Prince of Wales as manufacturers of toilet preparations.
Published on Metro.co.uk on 17th April 2018
Known as the Vegas of the East, Macao has held the title of the biggest gaming destination of the world for over a decade.
And yet, this tiny special administrative region (SAR) of China, consisting of a peninsula and two islands, has so much more to offer.
For one thing, having been a Portuguese colony for more than four hundred years, its architecture and its food has taken on a distinctively Portuguese flair.