Shoreditch, that East London stretch from Old Street roundabout to Haggerston, has always been good at shedding its skin. What was once a bog (charmingly dubbed ‘soredich’) became Shakespeare’s stage at the long-gone Curtain Theatre, then a cluster of tex... See more
Bus Palladium is dead; long live Bus Palladium. The 1960s Parisian nightclub that merged the velvet-rope-tied glamour of Studio 54 with the unvarnished artistic verve of the Chelsea Hotel on the sordid streets of the Pigalle neighbourhood shut its doors i... See more
Some might associate Soho Houses with late nights and one too many Picantes, but the roll-out of Soho Health Clubs shows the group’s more nurturing side, where physical and mental wellbeing — and the houses’ signature sociability — are all considered. Thi... See more
Sicily has been many things to many people for millennia, as its long list of invaders (Greeks, Phoenicians, Normans…) makes abundantly clear. Today, Italy’s largest island draws different kinds of travelling tribes s, whether they want to fly and flop on... See more
Paris in the springtime is not always lovable. I’m visiting during a bank holiday and it’s the first sticky heatwave of the year; the bakery that sells the ridiculous cherry-flavoured thing I’ve been eyeing up for a week on Instagram is closed, and queues... See more
