September 2020

The Rolls Royce Dawn two-door convertible in Powder Blue is sleek, attractive and comfortable. The ideal car for a luxury tour of the Loire Valley, via Paris and Fontainebleau.

Rolls Royce are shedding their chauffeur-driven image, producing luxury tourers that are comfortable on long journeys. So I decided to test it with a thousand-mile plus drive across to France.

Everything was planned at the last minute as Covid restrictions in the UK were bouncing up and down faster than a bumbling Prime Minister caught on a zip wire.

The Rolls Royce Dawn is an extremely sexy car, the cachet, performance and sinuous lines make it a favourite contender for the title of finest luxury touring car available today. With the roof down you can really show off that luxury interior and enjoy an open air ride of sublime refinement. Plus the Rolls Royce badge still carries the ultimate brand status. Please don’t think I’m a slouching teenager with baseball cap, sweatpants and hoodie all loudly emblazoned with Gucci, but Rolls Royce is still the byword for luxury craftsmanship.

Bavaria's Minister-President Markus Söder stated "It is the biggest and most beautiful beer festival in the world", he was of course talking about Munich’s Oktoberfest, when announcing its cancellation for 2020, which usually takes place between September 19th and 4th October.  

Only Riva has the history, inventiveness, appeal and inspiration to create a boat that anticipates the future but is permeated by the evocative mood of tradition. The production and creative capacity of the shipyard, which has continued to maintain its stability and vitality in 2020, has been exploited to the full to realise a sport-fly of dazzling beauty, a groundbreaking mixture of style, technology and innovative materials.

She writes of her personal vision:  ‘I adore the outside world and the relationships within it, between man and animal, plant and soil, sky and earth.  My paintings reflect my love of nature and attempt to document the environment, its life and culture - so we always have a piece of it.’

The winners are the new Ferretti Yachts 500 in the “Best Interior Design” category, and the Pershing 7X and CRN M/Y 62m Voice in their “Best Exterior Design” categories.

UK Superyacht specialists Pendennis, announced over the weekend that the newly extended 74.5m MY Lady E has launched following an extensive refit programme at their Falmouth facility. Fresh from Pendennis’ dry dock, MY Lady E emerged on Saturday morning and was promptly moved to the yards 7,564sqm wet basin for final commissioning work ahead of a series of sea trials over the coming weeks.

The Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, defended the Government’s controversial Internal Market Bill on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday saying: ‘This is all about insurance planning if you like, a break-the-glass-in-an-emergency provision.’

Here's our choice of great new watches to buy this Autumn.

The biggest watch fair, Baselworld, may have been cancelled but the master horologers are pulling out all the stops to create inventive, quality luxury watches to attract new buyers and tempt collectors.

This superb diver watch, the Alpina Seastrong Diver Heritage is a reinterpretation of the Alpina 10 Super Compressor of 1969. AL-525 automatic movement, rose gold, with cream ring and brown markers. Stylish and sporty.
£1,495.00
https://alpinawatches.com

Isolate In The Doldrums With A Winter Yacht Charter

The best places to charter a yacht and self isolate in luxury with the family this winter are the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Maldives, Seychelles, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. Motor or sail your way from one beach to another or simply enjoy languishing out in the middle of the sea, with only the dolphins and sunsets for company.

Here are our best picks from the available luxury yachts to charter for the winter season.