In 2010, fed up with constant progress, travel writer Sylvain Tesson spent six months in a cabin on the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia, seventy-five miles away from the nearest village. It was the first time in the traveller’s life he wasn’t moving but standing still. To Sublime he talks about solitude, the privilege of being European and his experience in the blank vastness
…Long conversations at twilight, kisses on the back of the neck, the smell of warm croissants in the street, winks of complicity, the moment when all nature falls silent…
The word detox has been so overused in marketing campaigns from a bottle of water, to face creams and soft drinks that we now are so used to taking it for granted that it is not really taken seriously enough
‘Some people will always tell you that what you are trying to accomplish is impossible; those people have no idea what they’re talking about,’ says Frosty Hesson, surf legend and first-time author of Making Mavericks
Fair Trade products such as coffee, chocolate and fruit have been available for nearly 50 years, but it has only been in the last decade or so that the concept has been extended to tourism. Johannesburg is pioneering this innovative type of tourism
From a traditional wine-making family in Austria, Birgit Pfneisz, 26 and her sister, Katrin, 22 broke the mould and located their own venture across the border in Hungary. Shaking off convention, they released their combined talents: Birgit as a vintner and Katrin as a businesswoman. The result: a whole new approach to wine making
It’s the day of the Downtown dandy. On our screens Don Draper drains whiskey like milk and with the impeding release of the The Great Gatsby it’s time to bring Brideshead back
