Paradise Found: Iguazu Falls
“I was meant to be writing about all the things there are to see in Iguazu, Brazil, beyond the famous waterfalls. However, when I arrived I immediately realised that this plan was doomed to fail.”
Author Estella Shardlow
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
The Royal Academy makes a successful break from its usual formula as it invites seven contemporary architects to transform its Beaux-Arts galleries…
Zürich: A Tale of Two Cities
“It doesn’t get much more festive than…listening to the choir arrayed on the famous Singing Christmas tree at the Werdmühleplatz Christmas market, a glass of Gluhwein in hand.” Estella gets festive in the Swiss financial capital…
Atomos: McGregor’s Random Dance
“Wayne McGregor is not your average choreographer. A former research fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Experimental Psychology department, he’s as much immersed in science and technology as the world of dance.”
Obika
Estella visits the latest outpost of the Obika mozzarella empire on Charlotte Street, where she samples the finest white stuff known to mankind…
Australia at the Royal Academy of Arts
“Despite being the world’s sixth largest nation, the land Down Under has been curiously absent from art history’s hall of fame.” Estella visits the latest exhibition at the RA…
Heatherwick: Designing Our Times
“Imagine the Green Man, on acid, designing buildings. Not just buildings even, but sculptures and buses and bags and department store windows. Welcome to Thomas Heatherwick’s world…”
Mozzarella & More
There are good things happening on the King’s Road. No, I don’t mean the antics of the Made in Chelsea crew. I’m talking restaurants.
The Magdalen Chapter Exeter
Floating starfish-style in the steaming water on a chilly yet cloudless Easter Sunday, I knew I’d made the right decision… Estella trades her childhood bedroom comforts for a more luxurious hometown stay…
Scandic Front: Copenhagan
It was The Killing’s Sarah Lund, with her exemplary knitwear and sixth sense for scenting out serial killers and political conspiracies, who first made me fall for Copenhagen…
Hotel Schlössle, Estonia
If I didn’t know better, I could’ve sworn I’d wound up in a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Tallinn’s Old Town hardly seems of this world, let alone this century…
Great Expectations at the Vaudeville
Great Expectations has been brought to the screen many times before and all with varying degrees…