What is it about the baobab that moves people so? It feels wrong to gaze upon one of these upside-down trees and not stand in awe, not want to wrap yourself around it. Many of us try – the tree-hugging – but most of us simply look, with that first love,…
Time is an illusion and there is no past and future, only the now. This has often been said, accepted and rebutted all in one conversation. But whatever your feelings about time and reality, what we know for sure is that sitting beside the Zambezi, it feels a great deal…
When I think back to the best meals I’ve ever had, it isn’t the food that I remember most. It’s where I was when I had them. It’s the setting that made me feel something so strongly, so close to awe that the dishes have stuck in my mind, easily…
“Day by day and night by night we were together, — All else has long been forgotten by me…” – Walt Whitman We were together. It was that last day of the year feeling, day by day, night by night. How were we meant to hold back? With the whole…
“Breakfast remains the cornerstone of every trip,” wrote Bill Prince, Deputy Editor of British GQ Magazine, in a recent piece, Breakfast like James Bond, for Relais & Châteaux‘s magazine, Instants. “Now, wherever I am in the world, and wherever I’m staying I’ve become a stickler about how I start day. And for me,…
We’ve had Christmases that have brought us to tears, on account of the unpredictable mixture of champagne and hugs, sure, and the blend of excessive compliments and gifts – both the giving and receiving thereof. But also, simply, because of the love witnessed and felt, around tree and table, from day to…
