Conservatorium is a gorgeous five star hotel ideally located in central Amsterdam. Situated on Museumplein the hotel is perfect for visiting the city’s main museums, including the Van Gogh Museum and the recently reopened Rijksmuseum as well as glamorous shopping streets like P.C Hooftstraat and Van Baerlestraat. The hotel is a member of Leading Hotels which…
Ember Yard is a seriously sophisticated tapas bar in an off the beaten track part of Soho (in as far as it’s ever possible to get off the beaten track a stones throw away from Oxford Street). The restaurant comes from the same people who brought London Dehesa, Salt Yard and Opera Tavern and serves delicious small Italian-Iberian dishes cooked over smoky…
Baltic is the London restaurant to head to if you’re keen to sample Polish and central European food. In their spacious and contemporary Southwark restaurant, Jan Woroniecki’s team cook up a variety of Baltic dishes from buckwheat blinis to rabbit braised in a fragrant broth. The restaurant is a long lasting London favourite and was…
You may have seen on our Facebook Page that we met Lord Livingston, Minister of State For Trade & Investment, at Sesame Lifts . They produce those lovely lifts that appear from disappearing stairs. The video below shows a lift for a residential Listed Building in Edinburgh but I digress, the meeting was a surprising…
Callooh Callay is a Shoreditch bar full of eclectic curios, mismatched furniture and a style of its own. A style which lies somewhere between eccentric and bonkers. The bar’s name comes from the works of Lewis Carroll and this is a space inspired by surreal and fantastical literature – the most obvious example of this…
The Langdale is an award winning, luxury four star hotel and spa in the Lake District. In an isolated setting, on a 35 acre estate, The Langdale offers a choice between exploring the countryside and local town of Ambleside, or staying in and relaxing at the hotel’s spa. The hotel is open and spacious, letting…
The Crown at Whitebrook is a remote and tucked away Welsh restaurant with rooms, near the river Wye and the border with England. Matthew Fort of The Guardian once described its location: “The Crown is not the easiest place in the world to find. It lies off a narrow lane winding between steepling, canopied hills in an odd…
Wilks is a modern French restaurant on Chandos road in Bristol. The chef and owner, James Wilkins, is a real heavy hitter, having worked in two and three Michelin starred restaurants in the UK and France. Last year the Bristol Post even described “his arrival in Bristol to run a small neighbourhood restaurant” as “akin…
Fashion or function? Style or practicality? When it comes to clothes, most less able people have, at some point, found that they’ve had to compromise one for the other in deciding what to wear. Far too often it’s fashion that takes the hit and because of physical limits and health complications, people find themselves sacrificing…