Travel

A Visit to a Leading Italian Builder of Fast Yachts
300kph in a car; few people even motoring journalists have achieved that speed.  A few more will have travelled at 50+ knots in a power boat.  However, only a small minority will have travelled at that speed in a comfortable cruising motor yacht, doubtless with a glass of something good like champagne to hand.  Perhaps it is a case of more fizz in the yacht than in the champagne?

Fraiche in Oxton, Cheshire has been named Britain’s best restaurant, topping The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants. The list, published on Sunday October 19, is compiled by The Sunday Times in association with Harden’s. Now in its fifth year, it is based on 70,000 reviews from more than 6,000 consumers.
The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants 2014 – Top 20
2014 ranking (2013 ranking)
1 (6) Fraiche - Oxton, Cheshire
2 (7) Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons - Great Milton, Oxfordshire
3 (9) L’Enclume - Cartmel, Cumbria
4 (8) The Ledbury - Notting Hill, London

International eXcellence Magazine took the Aston Martin Volante DB9 convertible in Bronze on a British Luxury Tour to experience Britishness at its best.
We combined great British automotive design, classic British luxury hotels, Michelin starred restaurants, sky diving and country scenery in a five day extravaganza.

Craftsmanship, style and generosity are at the heart of a collaboration between Chivas Regal and award-winning British watch companyBremont.  From Wednesday 22nd October until Sunday 9th November, there will an opportunity to bid online via www.chivas.com/bremontfor a rare, precision engineered watch, inspired by Scotch whisky pioneers James and John Chivas and the craft of whisky blending.  All proceeds from the Bremont Chivalry Limited Edition collector’s item will be donated to charity The Prince’s Trust.
 

It’s 11.30PM on a warm Saturday night in August and Frankfurt’s annual Museum Embankment Festival is in full flow. With bars, a somewhat random selection of stalls selling everything from pro-cannabis campaign badges to jewelry and craft wares, and music stages stretching down both sides of the mighty Main river, it’s easy to see why this predominantly business-focussed city feels alive with decadence this evening.

Victoria Tryon is an award winning designer jewellery, who creates bespoke and limited edition luxury jewellery collections. Her beautiful jewellery can be seen and bought on the luxury shopping site loveexcellence.co.uk
- Where did you study and what is your background?
I grew up in a picturesque village in Wiltshire and was educated locally at Marlborough college. I studied Gemology with the Gemological Institute of America.
- How did you get your business started?
With enthusiasm and passion!
- How did you finance your business in the beginning?

Imagine that you are a celebrity, with a series of valuable brands and endorsements to your name, only to find yourself facing a serious criminal charge. Could your situation get any worse? What about if someone has tricked you into committing an offence you would have otherwise been unlikely to commit?  What effect could evidence of such a malpractice, known as “entrapment”, have on Court proceedings? Alan Ma investigates with reference to a recent Crown Court case.

Landing in Copenhagen Airport is always a pleasure, it's small, neat and very easy to get through, if only everything in life was like that. Actually the next five days were going to be pretty excellent, as I was arriving in Legoland for the start of the Bentley Modern Luxury Tour.
 

The European dream is not working because individual EU governments are not fully committed to integration and populations are wedded to parochial perspectives. Economic rivals therefore do not have to divide and rule – because Europe remains firmly divided.

It's not without good reason that the tourist board of Denmark's capital have elected to use the slogan 'Wonderful Copenhagen'. While failing to attract the kind of visitor numbers that flock to London, Paris or Rome, this compact city is easily amongst Europe's best short break destinations. Renowned for its design ethic, eco-credentials and cuisine, from the Rosenberg Castle's regal ambience to the discreet bars of Norrebro- arguably the hippest district on the continent- it's impossible not to be impressed.