Happy Birthday Canada! Really.
Canada celebrates its 150th birthday this week. The Queen gets excited about these types of anniversaries. Australia and Canada ar ...
We’re up all night to get lucky
I hate early morning flights. I usually sleep through the alarm and miss them. A few years back I discovered that the best way to ...
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 & ...
Martinis in the Sky
When I was in fifth grade I remember interminable arguments about stuff that really mattered. Was Sugar Ray Robinson a technicall ...