Lustica Bay, Montenegro’s €1.1bn regeneration project, is set to transform property values in the area April 30, 2018 In Montenegro, legend has it, the island of Our Lady of the Rocks was built up from nothing over centuries by fishermen laying a boulder at the site after every successful catch. Lustica Bay, Montenegro, from €297,000 For sheer force of will, the huge development taking place at nearby Lustica Bay must surely be the [...]
Fitness advice: How to get ripped quick… And stay that way April 20, 2018 People are finally wising up to fad diets. Things like the Atkins and the 5/2 and the ketogenic and the million other silly ways to lose weight are beginning to drown under the, ahem, weight of science and common sense. We know that losing weight is mostly a matter of calories-in balanced against calories out, [...]
DEBATE: Will blocking junk food ads on social media help to tackle childhood obesity? April 16, 2018 Will blocking junk food ads on social media help to tackle childhood obesity? Caroline Cerny, alliance lead at the Obesity Health Alliance, says YES. Advertising works. The food industry wouldn’t spend millions of pounds a year on advertising if it wasn’t effective. When it comes to children, there is clear evidence that shows the food [...]
London-based food delivery startup City Pantry which serves lunches to Amazon and Google raises £4m from Octopus April 9, 2018 A startup which delivers food from local caterers directly to offices in the City has raised £4m to expand across the UK. City Pantry, which already serves clients such as Amazon, Google, Spotify and Unilever, currently serves over 20,000 meals every week to the employees of more than 500 companies. Octopus Investments led the latest [...]
Private equity’s push to turn Brexit positive: Equistone explains it’s just another day in the office April 3, 2018 Britain may currently be navigating through uncharted geopolitical waters, but that isn’t putting too much of a damper on the spirits of one of the UK’s oldest private equity houses. Equistone, a former Barclays division which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in the UK next year and last month raised its largest-yet €2.8bn (£2.5bn) fund, [...]
Through the grapevine: Les Sources de Caudalie, a family-run hotel amid the vineyards of Bordeaux, is where the A-listers relax March 29, 2018 I’m soaking contentedly in a Jacuzzi constructed out of a giant wine barrel. Set among rolling vines, Les Sources de Caudalie delivers the holy trinity of life’s finer things; exquisite food and drink, world-class spa pampering, and Hollywood stars making their arrival by chopper. The hotel, located 20 minutes from Bordeaux, is part of an [...]
Our resident chef gears up for the new season with a fresh dinner party recipe: Easter lamb and asparagus salad March 28, 2018 I’d like to say that spring is here, but with the recent weather who knows when we’ll be plunged back into deepest winter; there are rumours of more snow for Easter weekend. Regardless, it hasn’t stopped the sheep doing what comes naturally, and lambs are now frolicking through windswept fields, wondering why they have been [...]
Bankrupt to £100m: Confessions of AirX CEO, John Matthews – the least popular man in private jet chartering March 26, 2018 OUR QUIET table at Dover Street’s Arts Club is becoming a de facto confession box. A gin and tonic replacing the grill between priest and penitent, John Matthews peers through his glass – for he hath sinned. The chief executive of AirX, who admits to being the least popular man in private aircraft chartering, has [...]
Bankrupt, jailed, £100m: Confessions of AirX CEO, John Matthews – the least popular man in private jet chartering March 26, 2018 OUR QUIET table at Dover Street’s Arts Club is becoming a de facto confession box. A gin and tonic replacing the grill between priest and penitent, John Matthews peers through his glass – for he hath sinned. The chief executive of AirX, who admits to being the least popular man in private aircraft chartering, has [...]
Feeling brave? Then try bob rafting on the slopes of La Plagne March 23, 2018 If you’re the kind of skier for whom speeding backwards down a black run in an ice storm no longer delivers the requisite adrenalin kick, you need to try bob rafting. Mooted as an amateur’s alternative to bob sledding or the luge — which really should only be attempted by those with a death wish [...]