“Focus on a point at the other side of the lake and step-in, you can do it” boomed Philipp Steiner, a cold-water therapist and former ski-racer, who was already submerged in the icy lake, waiting for his new recruits to join him.
Ripples of near-freezing water radiated-out from around the ancient timber boat station, our entry point to the only pocket of water not frozen over by thick ice.
International Women’s Day can be marked in many ways: flowers, speeches, panel discussions, social media posts. Maserati, however, chose something far more appropriate - handing a group of women the keys to several of its most powerful cars and inviting us to drive them at full throttle around the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit.
The popularity of Levantine cuisine continues apace across the capital, with one of the latest outlets on this scene opening its doors last year in the vibrant city district of Farringdon.
CERU, on Cowcross Street, a stone’s throw from the Underground station, is the third incarnation of this restaurant, whose sister venues in South Kensington and Queensway have already well established themselves in their respective local scenes.
Dystopian. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. This old adage - incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain - highlights how misinformation can spread faster than the truth. And, in an era of information overload and accelerating tech deciphering the wheat from the chaff is certainly challenging. The same could apply to Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Perrier‑Jouët has long been synonymous with beauty — not only in its wines, but in its intimate, century‑long dialogue with the Art Nouveau movement. Today, that legacy evolves under the visionary leadership of Séverine Frerson, the first woman to serve as cellar master of the maison since its founding in 1811. She carries forward the house’s poetic sensibility while ushering in a new era defined by precision, purity, and a contemporary understanding of elegance.
We were recently invited to a private, behind-the-scenes peek at TranAm’s UK operation, with a look at some of the new products in their portfolio.
Images by Hayden Povey
There are angry SUVs and then there is the BMW XM Label. The former tends to apologise for their size by trying to look athletic or vaguely restrained. The latter makes no such effort. It arrives like it already owns the road and the minerals beneath it. Vast, square-shouldered, ostentatiously illuminated and absolutely certain of its own importance.
There was a time when an Audi RS model announced itself with little more than a swollen set of wheel arches and the faint whiff of mischief. Now it arrives armed with a charging cable, a 400-volt electrical system and enough computing power to run a modest space programme.
This is the new Audi RS 5, Audi Sport’s first high-performance plug-in hybrid and it produces a faintly ridiculous 470 kW, or 630 bhp in old money. Which is to say, quite a lot.
