Month: November 2019

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    Pasta & Basta: Italy’s best pasta joint?

    “The world’s best pasta restaurant” is quite the billing to live up to. But that is what S had confidently promised as we boarded the train. The restaurant in question, not to be confused with the similarly-monikered London pop-up, is in Ventimiglia on the Italian coast close to the French border on the Riviera. It…

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    Basking in the Riviera sun in Menton

    The French Riviera evokes certain images. This is where Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Stein sunned themselves and sought inspiration in wine. After the war it became the playground of the rich and famous, as Prince Aly Khan bought Chateau l’Horizon, Fiat Padrino Gianni Agnelli sailed yachts and stars of stage and screen from Frank Sinatra to…

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    Falling for autumn style

    Let me start by saying, I love summer and dressing for the sun. I am a massive fan of shorts and flip flops and would, quite happily, dress like that by a beach every day. But the clouds are overhead, rain is falling here in the UK and – like many others – I have…

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    A night with Jeff Goldblum at Pryzm

    Jeff Goldblum is in his element. Sharply dressed, the Hollywood megastar is holding court in front of a packed ballroom at Kingston’s Pryzm nightclub. “Thank you all for coming out tonight to Pryzm,” he purrs, before greeting a lady in the front row: “Hey don’t I know you? Didn’t we meet yesterday? You’re from Nat…