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London Food: The Butler’s Wharf Blackout Dinner during The Thames Festival 2013

September 9, 2013 LLG Food

On Friday night Miss P and I were invited to the opening night of the The Blackout Banquet, hosted by D&D London who own the stretch of famous restaurants on Shad Thames (Le Pont de La Tour, Cantina del Ponte, Blueprint Café and Butler’s Wharf Chophouse), to celebrate the Dark River for the Thames Festival, […]

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The Post Where I Arrive in Rio & Rio Moda Discute Internacional 2013

August 28, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

(Ipanema. 1030am Wednesday.) Well, hello from Rio! I haven’t done much long haul travelling this year, compared to my normal peripatetic lifestyle, so I’m rather enjoying the change of scenery from England. There is definite irony in the piece I wrote from Rio last summer, where I had a little bit of an existential wobble, thinking I […]

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Travels: The Longines Global Champions Tour 2013: Monaco. Part 2

July 22, 2013 Bicycling & sport

I wrote previously about the first night of the Longines Global Champions Tour in Monaco, but we had the second night to come — the Grand Prix, which promised virtuoso horse skills, and a huge payday for the winning rider. It’s competed over two rounds: the first as a Jump-Off, and the 2nd an utterly […]

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Last Week in London: Suzy Menkes at Christie’s, Sou Fujimoto at The Serpentine, & The Grain Store

July 15, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

London is so beguiling in this glorious heatwave. Everyone slows down, the pace of life seems a little more languorous, and lunches outdoor seem obligatory. On Friday I met with my friend Virginia and her Dachshund Doogie Howser for lunch at Bruno Loubet’s The Grain Store in the newly redeveloped part of King’s Cross, just by […]

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Stays: Travelodge Great Yarmouth Acle

July 15, 2013 Hotels

A bed with clean linen and a bathroom with hot water, I think we can all agree, is a guest’s basic requirement of a hotel. How impressive then of the Travelodge Great Yarmouth Acle to ensure that they provide this — and pretty much nothing else. And how bourgeois of me to think that a […]

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Thirty Six Hours at Babington House to Celebrate Cowshed’s 15th Anniversary

July 11, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

I’ve been in Somerset, at Babington House, for the past thirty-six hours, as a guest of their spa business Cowshed, to attend a dinner to celebrate its 15th Anniversary. Back in 1998 Soho House opened Babington as their first hotel, with a small spa in the, literally, old cowshed. The spa clients loved the products […]

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Travels: A Long Weekend in Monaco…

July 10, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

Monaco is quite a strange place. A large chunk of it looks like it was built by blind millionaire property developers in the Seventies and Eighties, (no wonder there are so many yacht owners there — clearly desperate to sail away as often as possible so they can avert their gaze). Lacking a yacht of […]

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Travels: The Longines Global Champions Tour 2013: Monaco. Part 1

July 5, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

I have travelled to some extraordinary places, and done some wonderful things, but watching international standard show jumping in an arena carved out of the car park in Monte Carlo’s port, surrounded by towering apartment blocks and a marina stuffed with plutocrat’s gin palaces was on quite another league.

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LLG Stays: Hidden Hotel, Paris

July 5, 2013 Hotels

I travel to Paris a lot. At least once a month, usually for work in some way, whether for the shows, (couture and pret a porter) or to visit clients, or attend press events. That means I am slowly working my way through a list of Parisian hotels, and am trying to stay in a […]

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Polo: St Regis International Cup at Cowdray Park 2013

May 28, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

Rachel and I did have a lovely afternoon at Cowdray Park a week last Saturday. (Even the inclement English weather couldn’t mar the proceedings.)  The 6th Annual St. Regis International Cup marks the opening of the UK International Series, and the lure of ponies, sportsman on ponies (especially the St Regis Connoisseur Nacho Figueras), and […]

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