It’s becoming more and more popular to travel with purpose, to explore somewhere for its history, culture or even professional training activities such as offered by The Campus in the luxury resort of Quinta Do Lago, Portugal. An ideal place to get supremely fit and share a fantastic holiday with friends, and rub shoulders with famous football, tennis and golfing heroes.
The paradise of providence. That’s how I felt about Puglia in Spring. So fertile for its dry, hot climate. So uplifting with its masseria, the whitewashed farmhouses with their singular but solid shapes and spacious courtyards.
Great weather and varied leisure options keep expats satisfied with their life abroad. Greece, Portugal, Spain, Costa Rica, Uganda, South Africa, Malta, Mexico, Cyprus and Kenya are the countries with the best weather, according to more than 90 percent of expats living there. Up to 89 percent of expats in the top 10 destinations with the best weather are happy with their life in general, compared to 78 percent globally. Expats in Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, Costa Rica and Malta are particularly fond of available leisure activities.
Of the European Motor shows, Geneva is often the most interesting. Neutral territory for all the big players, it has neither the bombast of Frankfurt nor the dependence of Paris on two lone national players. It is also, perhaps fittingly given the wealth of its host city, the playground of the exotics.
An exclusive invitation to play; beginners beware – you may get hooked.
Polo is probably the most glamorous sport in the social calendar. Think how cool Steve McQueen was in the ‘Thomas Crowne Affair’ and the sex appeal Jilly Cooper brought to her Polo novels, putting the dash into the country set.
International Excellence Magazine photographed their latest fashion shoot at the exclusive Emsworth Polo Grounds in Windsor. They play polo all year round here, either in the wooden arena or on their immaculate grass fields.
The horses they supplied for the fashion shoot were magnificent and behaved impeccably and you can see how attached the models, Jens and Dariia, became to them.
Polo ponies are magnificent to photograph and the landscape and lodge at Emsworth Polo Grounds are stunning.
International Excellence Magazine photographed their latest fashion shoot at the exclusive Emsworth Polo Grounds in Windsor. They play polo all year round here, either in the wooden arena or on their immaculate grass fields.
The horses they supplied for the fashion shoot were magnificent and behaved impeccably and you can see how attached the models, Jens and Dariia, became to them.
Polo ponies are magnificent to photograph and the landscape and lodge at Emsworth Polo Grounds are stunning.
Alfa Romeo Giulia Super Review
We decided to test the Alfa Romeo down in Cornwall with a visit to the Pendennis shipyard in Falmouth where they refurbish and restore some of the largest and most extravagant luxury yachts in the world. It was a round trip of ten hours and gave us time with some great roads to really get a feel for what the Alfa Romeo Giulia is all about.
Having just returned from a long weekend in Turkey, I feel refreshed, relaxed and just tanned-enough, to receive some raised eyebrow envy from my non-journo friends.
With the temperatures just starting to rise, it is a great time to go to get some bargain sun and avoid the hardcore sun worshiping crowds. With a previous visit to Antalya a distant memory (apart from the beautiful beaches and long hot days), I was keen to get back to the white sands and dip my toes in the crystal-clear water.
Sarah Millican is appearing in theatres all over the UK, and I managed to catch her at GLive in Guildford for a wonderful night of ribald laughter.
Millican is in fart popping, expletive laden style in her new show “Control Enthusiast”. She exposes ours and her personal foibles with endearing frankness, often accompanied by little coy looks directed around the audience, each time she gleefully steps over normal boundaries of politeness.
