The Butler’s Guide to Galle
Stay at Galle Fort’s Amangalla, and as well as enjoying the best room of your life, you will be looked after by your own personal …
17 Jan
Goodbye to Bustling Bombay
Goodbye to Bustling Bombay
Two weeks in magical Mumbai, mixing meetings with newspaper editors and handbag manufacturers, plus sightseeing, shopping and general immersion incredible India. Interviewed Bollywood’s biggest star, toured …
16 Jan
Mumbai: from the gutter to the stars
Mumbai: from the gutter to the stars
Magical Mumbai is India’s megacity, a seething, teeming metropolis of more than 14 million people. The subcontinent’s business and entertainment capital, it boasts both the …
15 Jan
Aamir Khan-do attitude to Bollywood
Aamir Khan-do attitude to Bollywood
Aamir Khan, star of the biggest-grossing Bollywood film of all time, talks to me about the struggle to find fame his way. Sitting serenely cross-legged and …
01 Jan
Magical Mumbai: Happy New Year!
Magical Mumbai: Happy New Year!
Incredible first day in bustling Bombay, India’s pulsating capital in all but name. Strolled Oval Maiden, Taj Mahal hotel, Gateway of India, CVT station, tasty …
01 Jan
Simon Crerar: Journalist
Simon Crerar: Journalist
I am currently enjoying a several month long global recce prior to settling someplace outside the UK. You can follow me at Posterous. On route I …
07 Nov
Sir Michael Caine on returning to South London’s mean streets
Sir Michael Caine on returning to South London’s mean streets
“I was brought up at the Elephant & Castle in London. It was a completely different world then. Our drug was a beer. Our …
15 Oct
Chatting to Gorgeous George at the LFF
Chatting to Gorgeous George at the LFF
“Believe me, this isn’t the first time I’ve worked with goats: I’m from Kentucky man!” Managed to grab a few moments with George Clooney on the …
20 Sep
Seizure: brave the crystal maze
Seizure: brave the crystal maze
Seizure sign Rather underwhelming expedition to Elephant & Castle to finally catch Roger Hiorns’s heavily hyped “urban sculptural project”. The concept is genius, the end result …
06 Sep
Back to Cornwall: Jon & Sophie’s wedding
Back to Cornwall: Jon & Sophie’s wedding
Long haul down to Mevagissey for the marriage of Juanito Davey & Sophie Moore. This was a delightful affair, with a delicious hog roast, sensible speeches …