Driving this Jeep is a hard wrangle May 1, 2012 Wow, this is cool Daddy, what is it?” says my daughter as she clambers into the back of the 70th Anniversary edition Jeep Wrangler. I appear to have acquired instant street cred. Amongst the under threes, in any case. That I am driving this car at all for this column is questionable. There is almost [...]
CAR TALK May 1, 2012 Audi Q5 SUV with Google and online radio Details on the latest Audi Q5 SUV have been released. The popular 4×4 has undergone styling tweaks and chassis improvements and has a new electro-mechanical power steering system. Engine efficiency is up by 15 per cent. You can now also choose Audi’s in-car internet service which includes [...]
Yoga and the City: where the busiest go to stretch April 30, 2012 The City is not a place one associates with yoga. Pounding away on a treadmill in a gym seems a more natural fit for the thrusting speed of life in financial services. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find the City has more holistic alternatives, from mediation centres to secret spas. One of its [...]
FIT IN THE CITY April 30, 2012 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT Over the next few weeks I’m going to be trying out some of the City’s top weight loss methods in the lead up to bikini/Speedo season. Tried and Tested: The Food Doctor Clinic Last week I visited The Food Doctor Clinic in Harley St (www.thefooddoctor.com), to see how a holistic (in [...]
EPISODE 55 – A LUNCHTIME INTRUSION April 30, 2012 I wince to hear Caroline’s name. But Nick doesn’t notice. He’s too wrapped up in his 25 per cent Q1 increase in sales and the business introductions Caroline and her colleagues have effected. It’s our quarterly catch-up on his business and my equity investment. Caroline… Between pipping me to last year’s City PM award, rescuing [...]
Best bread and butter on earth at fab Dabbous April 30, 2012 RESTAURANT DABBOUS 39 Whitfield Street W1T 2SF FOOD ***** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE ***** Cost per person without wine: £50 Ollie Dabbous, the man behind the most talked-about, hardest-to-book new restaurant in England, is from Guildford. I like that. It gives Dabbous – whose food was said to be so exciting by one famous critic that [...]
THE EXTRAORDINARY ART OF JAPANESE WHISKY April 30, 2012 The meticulous attention to detail and blending of art with nature is a defining characteristic of Japanese culture. For almost 90 years, Japanese whisky distillers have evolved an approach defined as the Art of Japanese Whisky. It can be discerned through such distinctive whiskies as the Yamazaki and Hakushu 12 year old single malts or [...]
WIN a Suntory whisky and cigar tasting evening at Eight Club, in the heart of the City April 30, 2012 Suntory and Eight Club are offering five pairs of tickets to an exclusive whisky and cigar sampling evening conducted by Zoran Peric (left), Suntory Brand Ambassador and Przemek Zaneap, Bar Manager, at the club’s Moorgate premises, 1 Dysart Street, London EC2A 2BX Tel: 0808 1801858. Time – 6.30pm on June 7. Final date for entries [...]
A riot of flowers and fish in Gauguin’s paradise April 29, 2012 What’s in Bora Bora?” I asked a frequent visitor there. “Sharks – but in a good way”, was the answer. Did that justify twenty hours flying time to French Polynesia, I wondered. A few weeks later, swimming in a lagoon so blue it looked digitally enhanced and watching grey-tipped reef sharks, I had my answer. [...]
Where tiny tots learn to chill: All hail the Baby Spa April 29, 2012 Recently, at a friend’s engagement party, another guest was telling me the details of her son’s birth within minutes of our meeting, and then that at first he only slept in 40-minute instalments and had to be strapped to her chest 24/7. She then whipped out her iPhone and showed me a video of her [...]
