OTHER RESTAURANTS IN LANDMARK VENUES June 29, 2009 SKYLON AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALLThe Southbank Centre’s premiere dining venue mixes stunning views across the river with future-kitsch design and sophisticated continental cooking. Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX,www.skylonrestaurant.co.uk BLUEPRINT AT THE DESIGN MUSEUMOverlooking the river near Tower Bridge – with binoculars provided to tables to cast a closer eye across the City skyline [...]
Souks, spas and stunning views, Morocco has it all June 28, 2009 THE HELICOPTER’S blades crank into life. Beneath us, sand is scattered across the sun-baked earth. Soon we are zooming towards the majestic, lunar slopes of the High Atlas mountains, and the lush glory of the Ourika Valley which guards its foothills, gleaming like the proverbial diamond in the rough beneath us. By foot this would [...]
OTHER HOT SUMMER MOROCCO IDEAS June 28, 2009 VINEYARD TRIPMorocco is an Islamic country, but away from the major northern cities it is fairly relaxed about most things, wine included. In the hills of Meknes in northern Morocco there are acres upon acres of vineyards, and 35m bottles of wine are produced a year. Wine-lovers can now take a four-day tour, which includes [...]
Regeneration is taking off in the Olympic quarters June 25, 2009 STRATFORD has long been one of those London areas that is supposedly on the verge of gentrification. The coming of the DLR, then the Jubilee Line, were meant to turn it into an up-and-coming area attractive to thrusting young professionals. It never quite happened. But last week, two things took place which mean that Stratford [...]
FOCUS ON: WOODFORD, ESSEX June 25, 2009 QUEEN MARY’S GATE, SOUTHEND RD, E18 2PAPrice: From £225,000Set in nine acres of landscaped gardens, this private-gated development offers residents an exclusive environment which is just 20 minutes away from Bank by Tube. Formerly university accommodation, the development has been transformed into one, two and three-bedroom flats, which are smartly decorated. Epping Forest is just [...]
Q&A: RENTING June 25, 2009 Louise SavageDIRECTOR OF RESIDENTIAL LAND Q.Dear Louise, I have a buy-to-let mortgage from when I bought a property several years ago. I’m really worried I’m going to start losing money on it – is it worth holding on to the property as an investment or should I get out of the market completely? A. This [...]
Bland of brothers June 25, 2009 FilmRUDO & CURSICert: 15BACK in 2001, a low-budget Mexican film named Y Tu Mama Tambien, about a pair of teenage boys on a road trip with a beautiful older woman, became an unlikely international hit, and made a global star out of young actor Gael Garcia Bernal. Rudo y Cursi reunites Bernal with his former [...]
NOW SHOWING SIX OF THE BEST June 25, 2009 ART Walking In My Mind The Hayward Gallery’s exhibition of installations reflecting the interior world of the artist. FILM Telstar Actor Nick Moran’s directorial debut, about 60s music legend and all round fruit-loop Joe Meek. THEATRE Arcadia Tom Stoppard’s ingenious comedy, at the Duke of York’s Theatre. THEATRE The Mountaintop David Harewood stars as Martin [...]
Smashin’ fashion June 25, 2009 FROM the dashing chaps in clean-cut whites back in the Twenties to the short skirts (plus frilly knickers) of the ladies’ game in the Seventies, tennis – and Wimbledon in particular – has always been a source of sporting fashion statements. It went through a bit of a lull when the most noteworthy look was [...]
Why Murdoch’s MySpace is going back to its roots June 25, 2009 WHEN Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace for $580m (£319m) back in 2005, most people thought he had gone crazy. A few years later when Microsoft snapped up a 1.6 per cent stake in rival Facebook, giving it a notional value of $15bn, all was forgotten; Murdoch had been right all along, picking up a mass market [...]