The jewellery auction season is over and now that the blizzard of publicity and eye watering numbers has stopped cascading towards us we can step back and take a measured look at how the sales have performed.
Hunton Yachts are one of the truly great British luxury brands. They produce the most stylish, quality, luxury yachts in the world and they are hand made in England, down in Hampshire, where state-of-the-art technology meets traditional craftsmanship.
Bespoke is the new luxury. When it comes to luxury yachts, the most discerning clients today are searching for traditional craftsmanship, hand-built quality and attention to detail with a personalisation that has clearly not originated on big production lines in anonymous factories.
Uruguay’s Punta del Este is a stunning, multi-faceted city with glorious beaches, elegant seaside homes and plush yachts. It is often likened to the Hamptons or St Tropez, a place for the glamorous and famous to party, where hotel rooms in the high season can cost upwards of $1000 per night. Yet Punta del Este is much more than a destination for the jet set.
Oman Air were today crowned kings of Act 3 of the Extreme sailing Series™ following a tense finale that saw them only just manage to hold off a late charge from rivals Red Bull sailing Team.
Morgan Larson’s men went into the fourth and final day of racing in Cardiff Bay with a commanding 17-point lead following a string of top results executed with trademark consistency throughout the Act. When they finished second in the first four races it looked like they would breeze to glory, but just as it looked like victory was sewn up Red Bull sailing Team mounted a spirited comeback.
Fiona pool, CEO of ultra-luxury yacht maker Hunton Powerboats and a former executive director at Goldman Sachs investment bank, is on a mission to expand production at the British-based business to “40 to 50 yachts a year” over the next five years and grow the firm’s revenues to the US$50m mark by tapping the international market for luxury yachts.
With Spielberg’s BFG released on 22nd July, locations across England will be brought to life on the big screen. And, with celebrations gearing up for the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth on 13th September, there’s an abundance of scrumdiddlyumptious activities to get involved in across the country this summer.
Here VisitEngland rounds up the best Dahlicious days out for ‘human beans’ of all ages to enjoy.
Wondercrump Events:
Roald Dahl Museum and StoryCentre (Throughout 2016)
Few places offer as much to do and see, all year round, as the largest and most charming of Italy's lakes: Lake Garda.
And the place to see it at its very best is its east coast, in the Veneto region. Whether in search of family fun, activity breaks, romantic evenings, culture, relaxation or simply the peace and tranquillity of nature, this area covers it all. And, of course, there's always Italy's world-renowned wine and food to savour.
Renowned British furniture Designer, Tim Gosling, is curating the main entrance at this year’s Decorex International (18-21 September). Embracing this year’s show theme, the roots of design, Tim will be constructing a spectacular exhibition called ‘The Heritage of Chair Making’ that documents the links between interior design, architecture and the exceptional heritage of British craftsmanship through the ages.
Goodwood Festival of Speed is delighted to announce that the car Bugatti call “the world’s most powerful, fastest, most luxurious and most exclusive production super sports car,” will be making its UK dynamic debut at the world’s most luxurious motoring celebration.
After its global premiere at this year’s Geneva International Motor Show, Festival of Speed visitors will to be able to get up close to this incredible car, named after Monegasque racing driver Louis Chiron, as it prepares to tear up the infamous Goodwood hill.
It’s perhaps ironic that with Iceland having one of the lowest murder rates in the world, the local population is lapping up crime fiction by Icelandic and foreign novelists in the murder mystery genre. You just have to compare homicides in Reykjavik to Caracas. In fact the murder rate in Iceland is twenty times lower than the world average according to the ‘Homicide Map’ from Brazilian think tank Igarapé.
