Photograph by Jesko Malkolm Johnsson-Zahn Here are some seductive curves to welcome you to Georgia. Usually this kind of statement architecture is reserved for city centre galleries but this is the Sarpi border customs checkpoint through which visitors from Turkey travel to Georgia. Located at the shore of the Black Sea the building was designed by Berlin architects, J. Mayer H and completed at the end of 2011. With cantilevered
New Year’s Eve and it’s worth looking again at Woody Guthrie’s legendary resolutions of 1942. I personally am going to adopt his ‘wash teeth if any’, ‘drink scant’ and ‘beat fascism’ as my watchwords for 2012. Happy New Year and may your ‘hoping machine keep running’…X
Another entry for our great writing series, here’s an excoriating piece by Ginia Bellafante of the New York Times, ‘reviewing’ a recent NYC wedding. The sharpness of the piece, slightly abridged here, and the awfulness of the occasion are a neat juxtaposition of all that’s irresistable and off putting about the New York intelligentsia – enjoy! *** “Recently [in] a loft-like store for arty bibliophiles, David Friedlander, a handsome guy
Dorothy Parker said that “Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city” Embracing this fact means that you can start to enjoy the city which spans nearly 500 miles. One suburb, Santa Monica actually has a town centre, Third Street Promenade, which is pedestrianised no less, with a pier and a beautiful beach all in close proximity. For visitors this is an easy ‘to get your head around”
As part of our occasional series offering random good advice, here's Chrissie Hynde setting out a pretty sound manifesto on The Pretenders' Last of the Independents album from 1994:
Typifying the trend for exquisite micro hotels is Escondrijo in Vejer de la Frontera. With just three rooms, the hotel is a beautifully renovated house in a cobbled lane, its oldest parts dating back to the Moorish era. The rooms are lofty and gorgeous and there are lots of little details such as ancient wooden doors, cloistered walkways, a galleried courtyard, candle lit stairways, woodburners and hammocks, to add to the place's
by Sandra Vallaure,www.seville-traveller.com A 'hidden gem' of Sevilla is The Palace of the Countess of Lebrija which boasts one of the most complete and astonishing collections of Roman mosaics of the Andalusian region and, I would even dare to say, of Spain. One of the few mansions that can be visited in Seville, this wonderful palace is organized around a main courtyard, with a couple of small patios behind and
Just 14 km from Africa, where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic, is the old fishing town of Tarifa, one of the most southern most points of Andalusia and indeed Spain. It’s a funky, shambolic little town with hipster surf dudes wandering around within ancient castellated city walls and shops selling kite boarding gear situated next to traditional Spanish tapas bars. With its expansive, wind-hammered beaches, Tarifa is the surfing, kite
This week we're bringing you interesting stories from Andalusia in the south west of Spain. Red hot and white painted, ancient and cutting edge, it's an intriguing and stylish corner of Spain sometimes overshot in the holidaymaker's stampede to the beach. We'll be taking a peek inside a gorgeous Spanish interior courtesy of guest writer Eduardo Rodriguez of The Designer Pad, hanging out in surf town Tarifa, eating anchovies in
by Nicki Slater, Imagination Workshop I must begin with an apology for taking such a long break from bringing you vegetable based news from Avocado Sweet. It has been a really busy summer, in my work and personal life as well as on the allotment but I am absolutely delighted to bring good tidings after a shaky start back in May. We ended up having a brilliant harvest with broad