Cheval Gloucester Park
As hotels return to business-as-usual, and adapt to changing circumstances, Angelina Villa-Clarke investigates why the concept of luxury…
Yearly Archives: 2021
Camp Siegfried at The Old Vic
Bess Wohl’s new play at the Old Vic is essentially a coming-of-age love story. It…
An Ode to Kensington
When I was little, we used to come to London, to visit my grandparents who…
Cinnamon Kitchen, City
Well, if we ever needed reassurances that we were back on the road to recovery,…
No Honour
Recently I caught up with the BBC4 series on Hemingway, which included a particularly arresting…
A Brown’s Stay En Famille
Luxury city hotels and family stays are not, usually, an obvious combination. One thinks of…
Spa of the Month: Thalassa Beach Resort, North Cyprus
An empty sandy beach on the Med? That’s not possible, right? Let me allow you…
Beluga Cocktail Hour
Aah, Cocktail Hour. It’s a forgotten concept, that window post-work and pre-dinner affording one a…
The Passenger
The publication of yet another book, even a short novel such as The Passenger, in…
Three Mile Beach
As we enter the final furlong of summer, Angelina Villa-Clarke discovers how a new collection of Cornish…
Midnight in Cairo
For those of us who associate Arab culture with the authoritarianism and religious extremism so…
The King’s Arms, Hampton Court
If I was someone who went in for terrible and reductive puns, I’d just say…