How do you remake a landmark without compromising its essence? The new Ritz Paris pulls it off in rare style, writes Susan Skelly. Arriving at the Ritz Paris is like turning up at a private mansion for a soirée you’ve spent weeks anticipating: a high-wattage welcome, a spritz of joie de vivre, a sense of…
Laucala Island, Fiji’s most luxurious tropical island escape, is rolling out the red carpet in readiness for a re-opening, in the wake of Cyclone Winston. If anyone needed an energy drink in recent months it was the glamorous South Pacific island of Laucala, the private paradise on the northern fringe of the Fijian archipelago, introduced…
Barcelona boasts one of the world’s greatest cuisines… While locals and visitors embrace the purity of a paper cone of Manchego cheese, mandolin-fine sausage or Iberian jamon from La Boqueria, Ferran Adrià and his brother Albert have blazed a trail. Degustation menus and designer tapas abound in the city and have shaped its reputation as a…