Adventure beckons the moment you arrive at The Cary Arms in the positively tropical Babbacombe Bay. A gentle cruise along the cliff-top coast road in the new Bentley GTC brought us to a small single-lane track. So steep that you wonder if the car will make it. Of course, it's a Bentley so it's a breeze. Though anything without four-wheel drive will struggle.
Sparkle with light this season and radiate brilliance through the winter months ahead. Enjoy our choice of the finest new jewellery creations by spectacular designers inspired by nature, comets, stars and snowflakes. And yes, even a cactus!
Cactus De Cartier Ring
It does not get more Christmassy than this. The Cactus de Cartier ring, yellow gold 750/1000, emeralds and carnelians, set with a brilliant-cut diamond of 0.10 carats.
£72,000
Some of the best places to rent and sail a yacht in winter are in the Caribbean, Antigua, the British Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, US Virgin Islands and Martinique. St Barths is probably the most popular over Christmas and New Year for its vibrant nightlife and party atmosphere.
Thailand is another destination worth considering, the landscapes are magnificent with stunning beaches and warm weather from December to March.
Lunch at The House Lounge at Heathrow was the perfect way to start our trip to Ozen By Atmosphere At Maadhoo Island in the Maldives. We had wisely picked our flight times to make the trip as comfortable as possible and to get the maximum time in the Maldives. The outbound flight to Male with Qatar Airways was at 15.05 with a 55-minute stopover in Doha. This meant we would arrive at 9.00 in the morning at Male and have the whole day to get over the jet lag and get acclimatised.
This year, the specialist automotive and bespoke accessories brand, Argent Timeless launches its new flagship store, on Savile Row in Mayfair.
Located in the heart of London, the Argent Timeless shop has been designed for the discerning driver. As the premium brand combines its wealth of experience from both the automotive and fashion industries to offer its customers made-to-measure products from custom cars to leather driving gloves.
Studio Jag Sihra is a new British brand bringing enchanting forms and intricate designs to life in a new and unique silk scarf collection. The possibilities are bold and endless, deriving from her lifelong passion for pattern and print.
As luxury supercar maker McLaren Automotive and Richard Mille enter the fifth year of their ongoing partnership, they reveal their latest and most ambitious collaboration to date - the RM 40-01 Automatic Tourbillon McLaren Speedtail.
Home to over 40 world-leading businesses from the global automotive industry and its tiered supply chain welcomed another noteworthy innovator, Viritech, to Europe’s premier automotive technology campus.
During 2020, an unprecedented year, the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective – a team of engineers, designers and craftspeople based at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, England – brought the unique visions of the marque’s global clientele to life with outstanding levels of creativity, craft and imagination. Almost every one of the motor cars created in 2020 was tailored by this Bespoke division, a notable achievement considering the backdrop of challenging and unforeseen headwinds.
Sure enough, a week later I was back. Having previously recorded my experience of Kefalonia’s northern niches in Fiscardo and southern shores in Lourdata I just had to complete my exploration of the island and the western waves of Paliki.
