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!...