Doing things a little bit differently, a little more grandly and perhaps with a touch of oh- so-British eccentricity begins even before one arrives for a staycation at The Savoy.…
With my trip to Spain cancelled, a London staycation was much needed. Some might say that booking a hotel room in London is an indulgence but surely these days, when…
“Your home away from home, your residence in the Capital, the perfect pied a terre in London”, how often have these claims been made about a hotel I wonder? These…
London has always been a city that rewards the curious and adventurous folk who want to go out for lunch so I decided to try and seek out some new…
There is a great deal that can go wrong in that most beloved English tradition; the picnic. Whether it’s a sudden downpour, dive-bombing wasps, parading ants or in the case…
“The rich are different” as F Scott Fitzgerald almost said (the correct quote being slightly longer and more complex), and it was this that I was contemplating as I gazed…
Mention Hammersmith restaurants to anyone even vaguely in the know and they will invariably mention the iconic River Café, a truly deserving institution of that much over-used adjective. Beyond that…
Due to meet my oldest school friend Ed (not Luxuriate’s Editor as he was away sunning himself in Oman), I puzzled over where to book as these days dinner with…
Cambridge is a city very hard to describe without resorting to the language associated with its most famous attribute, the University. Dating from 1209 this centre of learning is a…
If the name of this charming hotel on London’s Piccadilly brings to mind the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences and a sense of exclusivity, you would be…