Tahiti brims with such beauty that doing justice to its temptations can be a daunting challenge. The French Polynesian island has no doubt defeated many lesser men but French artist Paul Gauguin took up the challenge and dedicated his final… Read More ›
Turns out greedy bankers may not be to blame for the global recession after all. Last year, Singapore’s feng shui experts warned that the anti-clockwise direction of the island’s 165-metre observation wheel was unwittingly sending the city’s vast wealth out to sea…. Read More ›
You hear Mexico before you see it. It is the merry melodies of mariachis in unfeasibly wide silver-studded hats, twanging on trumpets and violins, that wafts across the arrivals hall at Cancun International Airport. The second passengers disembark, the musicians eagerly burst into… Read More ›
It’s a mild Mediterranean night on hopelessly hip Shenkin Street. A young couple sip cappuccinos and chomp croissants outside the Angel café, engrossed in the antics of a teenage girl throwing a temper tantrum into her mobile phone. Her colourful Hebrew echoes down… Read More ›
Most visitors arrive in Las Vegas by plane, but a spaceship would be more appropriate transport to a destination that is so out-of-this-world. There are, of course, luxurious resorts, amazing restaurants and spectacular shows all over the world – but as soon… Read More ›
As a nation of proud and patient queuers, we Brits really shouldn’t approve of Miami’s elitist nightclub door policy at all. After all, waiting our turn appeals to our innate sense of fair play. But there is no such thing outside the… Read More ›
While the British media was getting its backside publicly slapped by Lord Leveson, came news that Ofcom has finally pulled the plug on the poster girl of media impropriety – Press TV. Iran’s state-funded 24-hour news channel has been barred… Read More ›
Slouched in tatty and torn T-shirts and jeans in their downtown Manhattan recording studio, the Beastie Boys looked more like lazy students dragged from their beds than politicised hip hop icons when I interviewed them back in 2004. The trio’s… Read More ›
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