From the category archives:

LLG Plays & Stays

Restaurant: Bar Lobo, Barcelona

July 29, 2010 LLG Food

When I was in Madrid back in May, I ate in a fantastic re-imagining of a traditional tapas joint, Bar Tomate (which I wrote about here). In a total coincidence, the excellent Hotel Omm where Miss P & I stayed in Barcelona two weeks ago is also owned by the same restaurant & hotel group, […]

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Review:Hotel InterContinental Madrid Royal Suite

July 28, 2010 Hotels

Whilst I was hunkered down in the Hotel InterContinental in Madrid, trying to persuade myself I wasn’t sick, I went for an exploratory tour of the hotel. I may not have been able to walk very far, but hotels have elevators and lovely tho my room was, the appeal of CNN & BBC World had […]

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Paperless Post: a new kind of virtual online invitation

July 26, 2010 Curiosities

Lil’sis & I threw a small garden party at her London flat this past Saturday to celebrate (early) her birthday. I’m a big fan of proper invitations, but time restrictions precluded sending them out this time, so I turned to the next best thing: Paperless Post. Based in America, lots of companies - & friends […]

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Hotel room review: The Scarlet, Cornwall

July 25, 2010 Hotels

If your idea of an English seaside hotel is stuck firmly in the mould of a 1930s south coast Grand Hotel, then The Scarlet may come as a surprise. Not least because it is perched on a cliff over the Atlantic on the north Cornish coast, with a glorious view over its wonderful natural reedbed […]

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Piscines Bernat Picornell: Barcelona’s Olympic Swimming Pool

July 20, 2010 LLG Plays & Stays

Maybe eight years ago Emma & I flew to Ibiza on a whim: she went to Ibiza Yoga to do bend & contort, & I stayed down the road. (I’ve never been a fan of the spend eye-watering sums on yoga holidays and be expected to eat brown food & stay in ropey huts with […]

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Barcelona: here I come…

July 10, 2010 LLG Plays & Stays

Tomorrow morning I fly to Barcelona for five days. I’m mixing work & pleasure, in perfect proportions. Late Sunday one of my closest friends Miss P arrives from London, having locked her baby & husband under the stairs, and we will spend two nights at the Hotel Omm, as recommended by hotel & restaurant expert […]

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Review: Hotel AC Santo Mauro, Madrid

July 4, 2010 Hotels

I first came across Spain’s AC Hotels group back in 2003, when I was reviewing hotels in Barcelona for Condé Nast Traveller. At the time, boutique style hotels were still the exception rather than the rule, and the AC hotels stood out for their modern, minimalist design, great bars and fresh outlook. This April, seven […]

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Review: Hotel InterContinental Madrid

June 20, 2010 Hotels

Without a good bed a hotel loses its raison d’être yet, even in the most luxurious hotels, a comfortable bed is not a given. I have stayed in many, many hotels, travelling far & wide as a magazine fashion editor, and as an editor at Well-Known Travel Magazine. I have also been known to review […]

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Last night’s party…Mango did it in style…

May 27, 2010 LLG Food

I’ve been a style editor for more years than I care to enumerate here, and so I’ve been to a lot of fashion parties, from Milan to Monte Carlo, most of which are as amusing as the act of sticking pins in your eyes, bereft of adequate food & drink, and full of cluster fucks […]

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LLG is in Madrid

May 24, 2010 Events

I arrived in Madrid on Sunday afternoon after a red eye flight on Air Europa from New York´s JFK. There have definitely been more delightful flying experiences, and having a recurrence of my chest disease (chronic, non life-threatening) meant things weren´t ideal on the breathing front, but there is nothing like a an attractive Spanish woman […]