Midnight in Cairo
For those of us who associate Arab culture with the authoritarianism and religious extremism so…
Author Anna Selby
Spa of the Month: Aire Ancient Baths
Prepare to enter a twilight candlelit world. Soft music plays in the background. Everywhere is…
Messing About In Boats
There is something so utterly English about messing about in boats. It’s not just The…
The Mayfair Townhouse
If you equate Mayfair with stuffy, the Mayfair Townhouse will come as something of a…
Cunning Little Vixen at Opera Holland Park
The Cunning Little Vixen is an opera that presents both audience and opera company alike…
Spa of the Month: The Runnymede on Thames
The Runnymede is not what you’d call a destination spa. It has a perfectly respectable…
Wonderful Town at Opera Holland Park
You have to take your hat off to Opera Holland Park. Not only have they…
The Wolf Den
The “lupanar” had two meanings for the Romans. Literally, it is a den of wolves.…
Flora Indica
Flora Indica is not your average Indian restaurant. You might guess that from the name.…
Spa of the Month: Seaham Hall
Up North, it’s a different world. Forget about the crowded beaches of the South coast…
Carbis Bay: Revisited
It was back in 2019 that I visited Carbis Bay down in Cornwall, just outside…
Northern Ballet: Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons is well known to most of us, whether from the original Laclos book,…