Terence Conran
Well, Terence Conran died today. He was 88, so perhaps it wasn’t a great surprise but it definitely feels the end of an incredibly important design culture that began in […]
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Design Museum, London
Actually we didn’t eat here. There is a restaurant but it was closed – and there are several mixed reviews about Parabola, the in house restaurant run by Rowley Leigh. He […]
Bitter End Yacht Club, BVIs
Once upon a time we arranged the “last great family holiday”. You know, when your children have [almost] grown up, are away working or at university and you want to […]
Café Demel, Vienna
In Yorkshire we have Bettys [no apostrophe note], where you can indulge in cakes and savouries in a relaxed, genteel fashion. Broderie Anglaise still lingers in the staff uniforms, and […]
Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands
The circuit anticlockwise around the British Virgin Islands takes about a week, covering 85-90 nautical miles. The winds are almost always reliable easterlies giving you a bit of work as […]
Ardardan Estate, Argyll
As you head west from Glasgow along the A82 towards Loch Lomond you pass from Dumbartonshire into the highly sought-after “Argyll” postcode. Well, that’s a double-edged sword. Once you get […]
Roots, East Rounton, North Yorkshire
Farm shops seem to be expanding everywhere, the promise of local, ethically sourced produce that supports the farming community clearly a magnet. The very best use existing buildings sensitively, or […]
Rooftop Restaurant, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon
The famous cathedral in Stratford – aka The Royal Shakespeare Company’s recently extended and reconfigured building – sits majestically at the side of the River Avon. It doesn’t quite have […]
Knead it!, Stratford-on-Avon
For those of a certain age, you might remember a series of advertisements on TV [we know, it wasn’t the BBC] about a man who loved his shaver so much […]
Fodder, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Fodder. That name seems to conjure up thoughts of feeding cattle on a rural farm, perhaps hay or kale or silage. Agricultural, steady, purposeful, playing its part in sustaining the […]
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