As the British Museum opens its Sainsbury Exhibitions gallery, what better way to inaugurate the new space than by filling it with the frame of a Viking longboat. Larry goes along to satisfy childhood dreams at the new Vikings: Life and Legend exhibition…
Amid much fanfare at Singapore’s Capella hotel, Asia’s ’50 Best’ Restaurants of 2014 were announced…
At the glorious Goldsmith’s Hall, Larry joined the great and the good at the 2014 Hudson’s Heritage Awards, celebrating the very best that Britain’s historic houses have to offer…
Amid the post-festive gloom, a return to work buried in inclement weather at its most…
It’s January, it must be time to plan the skiing holiday. In the first of a clutch of recommendations this season, the Arb’s enthusiasts were sent forth to seek out some Alpine treasures. First, Larry goes to a hidden corner of Italy…
“Lord Fellowes turned, I noticed an apron on him, and as he strode past I heard him utter to the maitre d’, ‘Two machiattos for table four’.” Larry dines in surprise at the hands of Downton’s finest…
In June 1863, a Victorian diarist and six companions set off from London on holiday. Their destination was Lucerne to what had become the vogue attraction of its day, watching the sunrise from Mount Rigi. 150 years later, Larry joined an exhibition group recreating that journey…
Burritos are back. No, don’t yawn. I know what you’re thinking, “They’re already two-a-penny”. Well,…
Larry reviews the ENO’s latest production of The Magic Flute, by actor and theatre director, Simon McBurney…
There aren’t many things that are genuinely frightening in the cinema. Horror films? Forget it.…
“I was discovering a different side to Italy, the path distinctly less travelled…and the feeling of wonder when one comes across something not seen in books or media, as if stumbling across it for the first time.”
“As we turned into the throng of the city I was aware of the juxtaposition of the ultra-modern with the elemental.” Larry leaves the green jungle to enter the grey in the conclusion of his Thai adventure…