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 in The Mail on Sunday on 22nd April 2018
Chicago is quite the destination for gourmet travellers, and we’re not just talking about deep-dish pizza.
And for those with an interest in architecture, the city on Lake Michigan is a goldmine of innovative design and spectacular skyscrapers.
The Windy City nickname is said come from the hot air bellowed by its boastful politicians in the late 1800s – well, Chicago has a lot to brag about now…
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.
Published on Metro.co.uk on 20th March 2018
Before the beginning of this year, I had never skied.
Even going to a snow-covered destination seemed like such a drag given how little sun we get in the UK. And I am forever praying at the sun altar.
Plus, a conversation with a skier and snowboarder – where the experience was described as going ‘shoob, shoob, shoob down the mountain’ – left me thinking skiing sounded really boring and was probably not worth the money.