Do you know your Pierogi from your Bigos, or your Kluski from your Zurek? Well, it might come as a bit of a surprise to many but the city of Kraków (Cracow in English) in southern Poland near the border to the Czech Republic became the first recipient of the ‘European Capital of Gastronomic Culture’ for 2019.
After a sweltering summer in Paris, where most of us have kept make-up to a bare minimum, it’s time to break out the colour once again and embrace autumn’s best beauty trends. Much of what we'll be seeing is in surprising, yet beautiful, shade palettes.
Royal Huisman and Huisfit have announced that the 44m /143ft ketch Juliet is set to embrace all the latest hybrid technology benefits: the ultimate systems upgrade with leading-edge propulsion and power generation.
Juliet is a fine example of pioneering, custom-built technologies in the late 20th century. With nearly a quarter million of ocean miles under her keel, she still looks and sails like a dream.
One of the most iconic cars from Bentley’s history – Sir Tim Birkin’s 1929 supercharged 4½-litre “Blower” – is to be reborn with a new build of 12 matching cars, each individually handcrafted by a team of specialists from Bentley’s bespoking and coachwork division, Mulliner. Together, the new cars will form the world’s first pre-war race car continuation series.
Mercedes are masters at creating luxurious and stylish convertibles. They have a long and distinguished history of making beautiful and timeless convertible cars.
One of their latest is the E Class convertible. We were fortunate to have been given an E220d AMG line recently for a week of effortless and stylish cruising in the lap of luxury.
Mercedes currently offer 3 convertible models. The C class, E Class and S class. The E Class sits right in the middle with a starting price of £45,960.
With increasingly stringent legislation, manufacturers are being squeezed and challenged to meet changing goals for reduced emissions and an ever more environmentally friendly footprint.
By January 2018 there were more than 100,000 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV's sales across Europe, making it the most popular plug-in vehicle. In fact, despite a growing number of competitors it remains the best-selling plug-in vehicle – hybrid or electric – in the UK.
Which brings me to the next point.
For my day to day riding, I've been wearing my old textile gear until recently. The old jacket and trousers have seen many, many miles in wind, rain and shine. To be honest, they were well past their best and not only did they leak, but I looked like a tramp in them.
The final straw was when the seam on the arse of the textile trousers split.
Design, trends and materials have moved on significantly since I bought my old gear.
To find the true treasures in life, it can be rewarding to seek out the quiet, lesser known ones as they may reveal qualities beyond their description and image offering very individual experiences. You find it in anything from chefs through to skiing resorts; Slovenia hides lots of treasures including the acknowledged “ world’s best female chef”, dig deeper and there is much more to find. Aspen, St. Moritz, Gstaad and Courchevel 1850 are known to all.
With the decline is sports bike sales, manufacturers have had to look elsewhere. They have had to find more creative ways to sell motorcycles and one of the ways has been to develop categories such as adventure and retro bikes. That's brilliant for me, I love both.
We have not evolved over millions of years to sit at a desk. In fact desks really only came in with writing, probably invented by the Sumerians over 3000 years ago. Now that may sound like a long time, but in evolutionary terms it is nothing, a blip.
With the advent of personal computing came longer hours spent staring at a screen with even less movement than before. We all know the concentration that computer work brings, hours can pass without moving.
