Hot stuff: Trishna is great for date night but mind the spice April 23, 2012 RESTAURANT TRISHNA 15-17 Blandford Street, W1U 3DG FOOD *** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £45 TRISHNA is that rare thing: a rustic-chic restaurant serving top-dollar Indian cuisine. Elsewhere in London, posh Indians are in over-sleek rooms without windows and rustic is the very last word you’d apply to them. At the [...]
Beaches and barristers in the sunny Bahamas April 22, 2012 An architectural oddity in the middle of Nassau’s Parliament Square screams out for your attention. The octagonal library and city museum is painted pale pink (like all the important buildings in The Bahamas’ capital). I climb up creaky steps to the first floor and admire paintings of Nassau dashed off by ships’ artists in the [...]
UK is wrong to have turned its back on individual freedom April 17, 2012 LIBERTY. Freedom. When did you last hear these two words in the UK political debate? Well, I certainly can’t remember. Our country is dominated by busybodies and collectivists who believe that they and the state have the right and duty to tell us all what to do, to spend our money for us and to [...]
UK is wrong to have turned its back on individual freedom April 16, 2012 LIBERTY. Freedom. When did you last hear these two words in the UK political debate? Well, I certainly can’t remember. Our country is dominated by busybodies and collectivists who believe that they and the state have the right and duty to tell us all what to do, to spend our money for us and to [...]
Eating late at night won’t make you fat April 16, 2012 FIT IN THE CITY AS YOU return from Easter, balking at the thought of bearing all on the beach in a few weeks time after the year’s annual chocfest, make sure you don’t fall into one of the clichéd diet traps. Here are my favourite weight loss myths – debunked. When you diet, your body [...]
A nature lover’s ultimate paradise April 15, 2012 How’ s the snorkelling?” I ask Christina as she emerges from the turquoise waters of Playa Cabo del Horno in San Cristobal. “Quite good,” she replies with a shrug. “I saw a sea turtle and a sea lion”. Christina, a rather po-faced Dane who’s been on the Galapagos a few weeks, is clearly not easily [...]
Miami Nice: there’s lots more to Florida than Disney World April 15, 2012 FOR most of the 1.5m Brits who travel to Florida each year, it’s the allure of the Mouse that does it. But there’s much more to the state than Disney. While Orlando promises wholesome family entertainment (especially for those who don’t mind queuing), the rest of Florida offers some serious fun for grown ups. Miami [...]
Affordable yoga retreat in Goa delivers a great detox April 15, 2012 What price would you put on bettering your general wellbeing? If you can stretch it to £500, and don’t grimace at the idea of yoga and meditation in India (it’s not just for hippies, honest), then get thee to Goa. Worn out from London life – too much eating and boozing, too little exercise and [...]
Silva, not Balotelli, is real reason for City’s collapse April 10, 2012 LARGER than life Mario Balotelli has borne the brunt of the blame for the collapse of Manchester City’s Premier League title challenge, but he is just one of the reasons for their dramatic slide, and not the biggest. Losing influential midfielder Yaya Toure in January during the African Cup of Nations was a massive loss [...]
Capoeira isn’t just fun, it also helped to hone Man U’s flipping great Nani April 9, 2012 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT The Man Utd player has something of a martial arts past, hence the gymnastic flips when he’s celebrating on the pitch. HOW HE DOES IT: Nani spends most of his time in football training nowadays but admits that he misses the martial art of Capoeira he grew up with on the [...]