CAR TALK August 23, 2011 VW CITY CAR The is Volkswagen’s tiny city car which is being launched at next month’s Frankfurt motor show. Small but as spacious as possible inside, the four-seater will go on sale with a 60PS or75PS three-cylinder petrol engine capable of up to 67mpg with less than 100g/km of CO2. An electric version is coming [...]
Raising hair: new men’s treatment August 22, 2011 I BLAME Ronaldo. When the absurdly sculpted, smooth-as-marble man-boy started appearing on the sides of buses and on billboards in his Armani boxers last year, the game was up: body hair was no longer part of the male ideal. At least David Beckham, Ronaldo’s predecessor in the Armani ads, looked like he could grow a [...]
EPISODE 24: Late nights and Handel operas August 22, 2011 EMMA is passionate about Handel, especially the operas. She’s sung in several Messiahs and we make – well, I make, on her behalf – an annual donation to the Foundling Museum. The Museum commemorates the Foundling Hospital, where annual performances of the Messiah, sometimes conducted by Handel himself, raised funds for the abandoned children in [...]
Quick ways to get in shape August 22, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT LAST week, a study from the Lancet revealed that exercising for just 15 minutes a day can add three years to your life and cut the risk of cancer by a heartening 10 per cent. Here are my top five ways to maximise those fifteen minutes: you won’t just achieve those [...]
Oasis of life on cold Chiswell Street August 22, 2011 Chiswell Street Dining Rooms 56 Chiswell Street, EC1Y 4SA Tel: 020 7614 0177 FOOD *** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £35 CHISWELL Street, off Moorgate, is not likely to be on your post-work route unless you work there or live in the Barbican. For it’s a long, dreary street, sort of empty-feeling, [...]
Apple reaches top of the world – but will it stay there? August 22, 2011 @steve_dinneen LAST week Apple achieved what even a year ago seemed all-but impossible – it became the biggest company in the world. In shuffling, albeit briefly, past oil giant Exxon Mobil, it joined an ultra-exclusive club of just 10 companies to have held the top spot in the history of the S&P 500. And unlike [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS August 22, 2011 BIGGEST FOOD EVENT OF THE YEAR: FRENCH LAUNDRY TO COME TO HARRODS Before Noma and the Fat Duck, the restaurant that usually vied with El Bulli for the “world’s best” title was California’s French Laundry. It’s still seen as one of the greatest places to eat on the planet (by the few who’ve managed to [...]
Make like Bond with an Aston in the Alps August 21, 2011 AMERICAN novelist Mark Twain wrote that rambling in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland was incomparable to any opiate, legal or otherwise. Imagine the rush, then, to be booming an Aston Martin V8 Vantage S round the picturesque, vertiginous Alpine passes, past crystal-clear glacier lakes and verdant valleys where cow bells jangle for miles. I’ve been let loose [...]
TRAVEL NOTES August 21, 2011 ESCAPE TO THE TOWN AND COUNTRY If you think you’ll be in need of a late summer escape, you can enjoy it in the town and in the countryside with a rather tempting partnership deal between the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge and Cotswolds country house retreat Cowley Manor (pictured above). The package allows you a [...]
London trends: who’s moving the prime market higher? August 18, 2011 THE headlines are clear: core prime central London property – that is central London property at the very top of the market in places like Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Belgravia – is rocketing in value, keeping pace with gold as an asset class. Supply of these properties is now chronically low, adding even more upward price [...]