Chapters, Hay-on-Wye
As Hay-on-Wye comes alive for its annual festival, Lucy Shaw finds the perfect retreat for literary lovers to…
Author Lucy Shaw
Finland: The Recipe for Happiness
There’s nothing like a communal disrobing for making fast friends. I’m in a smoke sauna…
Daydreaming in Blue: Anguilla
Blue is my overriding memory of Anguilla. From its transparent turquoise waters and cloudless cyan…
Art Imitating Life: IZZA Marrakesh
It may be on Europe’s doorstep, but landing in Marrakesh after a short flight from…
Roots + Seeds, Cirencester
Field-to-fork newcomer Roots + Seeds in Cirencester was so fresh out of the gates when…
Nature’s Retreat: Tudor Farmhouse
I’m deep inside the Forest of Dean – a former royal hunting ground in Herefordshire…
Mayha
Being someone who takes immense pleasure in forensically studying a menu prior to visiting a…
San Francisco on a Plate
With its varnished wood panelling, brown brasserie chairs and quirky pictures of patrons passed, walking…
Europe’s Best-kept Culinary Secret
I’m lost in a forest in a place beyond the pines eating some of the…
A Celebration of Barolo at The Connaught
Tar and roses. Ask any wine lover what they smell when they plunge their nose…
White Gold: Truffle Hunting in Alba
Alba at dusk. A perfectly round, milk white moon is rising in the sky like…
Arabian Sands: The Allure of Abu Dhabi
“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the…