Where to Martini in Colombo
Updated June 2017 Anytime someone visits Sri Lanka I get asked for a list of bars to visit in Colombo. Here's my current list. I ...
The Elections Are Over. Now What?
I don't know what to make of the results of the British elections. The chap who lost is considered to have won (the Brits, whose s ...
Picnic in a Shop with Ralph Lauren
The British are an island people with strange habits. One of them is to picnic inside the family car. A British family will drive ...
The EasyJet Princess
I am flying EasyJet, the European low cost carrier, from Gatwick Airport; an efficient if not particularly desirable experience. I ...
Faith, Champagne and Heston
Guest Post from the Princess Monkey. We are in Bray, an English village, not far from London. Heston Blumenthal’s name [OBE & ...
Kicking off 2017 with Men in Gold
Happy New Year! Many of you will be still be nursing hangovers or working on acquiring new ones before settling down to making a l ...
The Last of the Beardies
Stylish bearded revolutionaries straight from central casting Fidel Castro, the last of the beardies, is dead. Most of the comm ...
The Art Dealer, his Wife, the Grandfather, and the Russian model
Beautiful bar, impeccable service Fortnum & Mason is a department store in London. It's been around since Queen Victoria wa ...
Happy Endings in Bangkok
Clockwise from top: rainy day in Bangkok, rooftop view from the Octave bar, Brian May on stage in Bangkok. We were in a traffic ...