WENDY’S WEEK BIRTHDAYS AND OTHER RAMBLINGS!
Love them or hate them, we all have a birthday as we notch up yet another number on our board of life. I used to love birthdays, but...
Flight Club: Elevating darts
When you first think of darts, you’re likely to picture a wave of fancy-dressed drunkards incoherently chanting for their favourite beer-bellied heroes. Whilst this still holds true, the The Flight...
Bar Floridita: Una historia que contar con 200 años
By Lázaro Estenoz Cosme Press the TRANSLATE button to read this article from Cuba by Lazaro. El Floridita, bar cubano de fama internacional y considerado la cuna del Daiquirí...
Swingers LDN
At the foot of the iconic Gherkin skyscraper, beneath the City’s business district, Swingers is an underworld golfing and fast-food extraordinaire. Kiran Shergill paid it a visit recently. Following...
Ranjit Recommends: Between The Sheets
Ranjit Shergill pays a visit to Between the Sheets, a London Burlesque Club. Tucked between the crowds at London’s Underbelly festival is a hotspot of watershed entertainment led...
Secrets From The Sahara Love between the countries. Djerba the dream island
I have seen and i have heard alot of discussions about long distance relationships, a lot of people have been questioning if two people who live in two different...
Secret Sussex Super-Star! Stuart Bligh
Stuart Bligh is a brilliant guitarist, singer and guitar teacher. He plays solo or with his group, Big Blue. I first met Stuart about six years ago, and he...
Malta Diary To pole dance or not to pole dance – that is the question!
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: Why they are termed to be “Gentlemen’s Clubs” is a bit of a paradoxical mystery – a...
BYOC – The drinking concept with a twist! Bring. Your. Own. Cocktail.
Bring. Your. Own. Cocktail. In reality, what this really means is: bring whichever spirits your heart (I mean… your liver) desires and leave it to your personal mixologist...
Ranjit Recommends: The Bothy
The Bothy is the latest addition in a host of successful bar & restaurant chains by Drake & Morgan. Situated in the epicentre of West India Quay, The Bothy...
Ranjit Recommends: Leon’s West End
The restaurant chain Leon is synonymous with tasty health conscious fast food. However, on 13th February 2017 they opened their all-singing Leon branch in the West End of London...
Bottoms-up at the Bootlegger!
The latest Speakeasy to grace the Capital is neatly tucked away in EC3’s buzzing Leadenhall market – this 1920’s style bar is impressively themed against the backdrop of the...
Ranjit Recommends: 28°-50° Wine Workshop & Kitchen
Whilst it is easy to think that the numbers in the name of the restaurant correspond to something trivial, there is a far greater significance to them. Indeed, they...
Have a real hoot at Cahoots!
Step back in time at Carnaby Street’s underground cocktail haven. What once was a WW2 air raid shelter is now Soho’s Kingley Court Underground Station – a retro bar...
Get Retro with Old Street Records!
Welcome to Shoreditch’s trendy new hang out – Old Street Records is sure to kick off your weekend vibes. With live music, mouth-watering pizza and a funky cocktail offering,...
Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski, una joya en el centro de la Ciudad Maravilla.
By Lázaro Estenoz Cosme On a recent trip to Cuba for the FitCuba Fair,I met our writer Lazaro for the first time. I was invited to visit...
WENDY’S WEEK
This week l return to Thaxsted and tell you a little about the Guildhall, and will also stay in the area for a couple of weeks to tell you...
Cider and Scandal in the Village of Brockweir
The Medieval village of Brockweir is a pretty and charming place steeped in history and it is understandably popular with tourists, but beneath its sleepy village façade lays a...
Welsh Witterings: Cocktails and Drinks
Having purchased a very kitsch 1960’s home bar and being armed with a variety of vintage cocktail books, I couldn’t resist researching the history of the cocktail this week....
STEAMPUNK AND SUPERSTARS
By Ann Evans Photos courtesy of Rob Tysall and MCM Comic Con. Dig out your superhero costumes and put reality on hold as the MCM Comic Con...
Malta Diary “As things stand, the sad truth is that pornography is probably the main sex educator of our children today”
After years of covering up with an ostrich-like head-in-the-sand mentality – it’s now in the open. The people of Malta and Gozo are avid followers of pornography...
MALTA DIARY: The antithesis of the straight and narrow – Valletta’s Strait Street – but now being restored to the path of virtue
Malta’s capital city Valletta was built in the 16th Century by the French Knight Grandmaster Jean Parisot de la Valette who unfortunately died before witnessing the final completion...
How to Run a Party
In the 60s Lesley Gore sang ‘It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.’ Not true. If it’s your party, you should be in control of...
MALTA DIARY: You name it – we have it; popular sport in Malta
Surrounded by blue skies and blue seas almost throughout the year it stands to reason that water and water sports feature highly on the Maltese agenda. Yet, it’s...
Let Paris surprise you for an exciting Valentine’s Day – Meanderings through France
Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny As Valentine’s Day is on a Sunday this year why not spend a romantic weekend in Paris? If weather forecasts are...
Mocktails. (Drivers’ Delights.) Non-alcoholic Cocktails
Unfortunately, if you go out for the evening, someone has to draw the short straw and drive, unless you hire a minibus or book taxis. I’m quite happy to...
Sexpo™-THE PHOENIX RISES FROM THE ASHES OF ‘EROTICA’
By Graham Swain. There has been a void in the social calendar of London since the expiration of ‘Erotica’ in 2013. In the dark desperate days of pale bruised...
Malta Diary From prostitution to restitution – where the light has changed from RED to GREEN
The Sliema suburb of Gzira (literally meaning Island, a name given it by virtue of an adjacent small island known as Manoel Island to which it is connected...
London’s Rhythms of Cuba!
Cuba throbs with rhythm, music and dancing everywhere you go. I always look both ways when I come out of the loo as I expect a group to pop...
L’ESCARGOT; Having a ‘Snail’ of a time in Soho, London!
L’Escargot French Restaurant has been in Greek Street, Soho, since 1927. When it first opened, its surroundings would have been very different to what they are now! Soho!...
brand new “LIDO” on the Champs Elysées is expected in April 2015 – Meanderings through France
Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny Surely the most famous cabaret of Paris the “LIDO” is going to go through huge transformations during the next few months. After...
Smirnoff Supports Second Winter Pride UK Arts Awards
Hosted by Irish broadcasting personality Brendan Courtney, Smirnoff supports the second Winter Pride UK...
A “British Paradox” in Paris: The FrogPubs.- Meanderings through France
Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny If British pubs and French cafés are both places to have a drink and a snack with friends you can’t obviously take...
Rolex-Middle Sea Race – Doldrums Start, Gale Force Finish, Malta
The yachting 2014 Rolex-Middle Sea Race (the 35th) commenced with a bang on Sunday 19th October as the start cannons boomed the “off” high up in the Upper Barrakka...
Take a walk on the darkside… in York
By Matt Thompson– a guided tour of York, our author learns about the historic city’s murderous underbelly. Take a wander around York at early evening and you’ll be certain...
A Sussex Country Pub in the early 20th Century. Part 2 of 2.
This is the second and final part of this fascinating piece of personal history. The first part can be found here. Enjoy! Note: Click the images below to read...
A Sussex Country Pub in the early 20th Century. Part 1 of 2.
I owned a pub once; one of several big mistakes in my life. Oh how different English pubs are now, compared to how they used to be! One lunchtime,...