The Mayfair Townhouse
If you equate Mayfair with stuffy, the Mayfair Townhouse will come as something of a…
Author Anna Selby
Cunning Little Vixen at Opera Holland Park
The Cunning Little Vixen is an opera that presents both audience and opera company alike…
Spa of the Month: The Runnymede on Thames
The Runnymede is not what you’d call a destination spa. It has a perfectly respectable…
Wonderful Town at Opera Holland Park
You have to take your hat off to Opera Holland Park. Not only have they…
The Wolf Den
The “lupanar” had two meanings for the Romans. Literally, it is a den of wolves.…
Flora Indica
Flora Indica is not your average Indian restaurant. You might guess that from the name.…
Spa of the Month: Seaham Hall
Up North, it’s a different world. Forget about the crowded beaches of the South coast…
Carbis Bay: Revisited
It was back in 2019 that I visited Carbis Bay down in Cornwall, just outside…
Northern Ballet: Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons is well known to most of us, whether from the original Laclos book,…
Father’s Day Gift Guide
People often say it’s harder to buy presents for men than it is for women.…
Tales of the Riverside, Part II: Don Giovanni at Ye Olde Leatherne Bottel
The food at Don Giovanni is classic and contemporary Italian. You feel like you should…
Tales of the Riverside, Part I: Beetle & Wedge
This has been one of the wettest, most miserable Mays in recorded history so –…