A pine-scented Italian mountain refuge beneath Monte Bianco where folklore, food, skiing, and serious pleasure converge, and where leaving feels faintly disloyal

Courmayeur sits at the foot of Mont Blanc with the quiet confidence of a place that knows exactly who it is. It has no need to shout. Unlike many Alpine resorts engineered for throughput and spectacle, this is a real town with a proper centre, cobbled streets, stone houses, and a rhythm dictated as much by weather and tradition as by ski lifts and restaurant bookings.

The Priory Wareham was the final stop on our Porsche Cayenne GTS tour of Devon and Cornwall, and if you're going to end a drive through some of England's finest countryside, ending it beside the River Frome with a 16th-century monastery waiting at the door is doing it properly.

Driving a Porsche on a Devon beach, arriving by sea tractor, and staying in a 1930s Art Deco palace on its own tidal island near Bigbury-on-Sea turns a weekend into a genuine adventure, with historic suites, exceptional dining, and Atlantic drama that lingers long after you leave.

Arrival: The Theatre Begins Before You Step on the Island

The SUV That Started It All: Still the One to Beat

Christmas. Snowdonia. Mud. Ice. Mountains. Yr Wyddfa. Logic suggested I should be flinging a rally-spec electric Mustang up the side of Eryri National Park like some sort of eco-conscious mountain goat. Reality, however, intervened. I took the Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally to The Ritz instead. Champagne. White tablecloths. Soft lighting. Our own table, suspiciously close to David and Victoria Beckham.

A Porsche a Peninsula and a Hotel That Perches Above the Waves

“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).