2015-03-19 18:30
Note: this article about the launch of P&O Britannia was written in 2015 so some information might be out of date
The day was bright and sunny for Her Majesty and Prince Philip as the Ro… Read More
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2015-03-18 18:53
Note: this review of Cheval Residences serviced apartments London was first published in 2015 and so some information might be out of date
For frequent travellers to the capital who find hot… Read More
2015-03-17 10:52
Note: this review of Rabbit Restaurant Kings Road Chelsea was first published in 2005 so some of the details might be out of date]
It promises to deliver ‘British wild food’ and… Read More
2015-02-25 14:00
Note: this article about cruise ship P&O Britannia was first published in 2015 and so some details might be out of date
It cost more than £520 million to build, weighs 141,000 tons… Read More
2015-02-19 11:30
First, the good points about Fifty Shades of Grey, the film which has been greeted with massive under-enthusiasm by the critics (but which hasn’t stopped it breaking box-office records… Read More
2015-02-12 19:30
Note: this review of The Botanist Sloane Square was first posted in 2015 so some details might be out of date
The Botanist, Sloane Square was packed at 7pm last Thursday as the pre-thea… Read More
2015-02-10 18:08
Note: this reivew of my stay at Compleat Angler Marlow hotel was published in 2015 and some details might be out of date
The Compleat Angler, Marlow, is proof that some hotels don’t ne… Read More
2015-02-07 23:03
[Note: this review of Huntsham Court Devon was first written in 2015 and some details might be out of date]
Staying at Huntsham Court, an exclusive use manor house in Devon, provokes a mixtu… Read More
2015-01-30 14:50
What’s wrong with having a photobombing yellow car, you might ask? Poor Peter Maddox. The 82-year old has been accused of allowing his little yellow Vauxhall Corsa to ‘photobomb… Read More
2015-01-29 18:48
[Note: this review of Four to Eight in Covent Garden was published in 2015 and the restaurant is now closed. I’ve let it up here though as my blog is like my diary!]
The ever-changing… Read More
2015-01-21 13:52
[Note: this review was first published in 2015 so some details might be out of date]
It is located in the no-man’s land of offices and parkland between Exmouth Market and Clerkenwell G… Read More
2015-01-10 19:00
Note: this review of lunch at Gillray’s steakhouse and bar restaurant in Waterloo was first published in 2015
Long-time London dwellers still remember County Hall, across the river Tha… Read More
2014-12-31 12:25
[Editor’s note: I stayed at this boutique hotel in Piccadilly London a couple of years ago and since then the hotel has undergone a two-year revamp of its 135 bedrooms and 11 suit… Read More
2014-11-19 18:15
There was a lion right outside my hotel room which is unusual for one of the most central hotels in London. Well, to be more accurate, a Lion King. The Lyceum theatre in Covent Garden, which… Read More
2014-11-11 14:57
Swimming near a school of dolphins, walking on a recently-erupted volcano and diving to a wreck of a World War 2 Japanese fighter plane might seem like once-in-a-lifetime holiday but if you… Read More
2014-11-03 15:33
[This article was originally published in 2014 and since then NuBeginnings has ceased running its weight loss boot camps in North Devon. Details of its current activities can be found here]… Read More
2014-10-25 19:49
[Note: this article on exploring Mallorca for the first time was first published in 2014 but has since been updated. However some details might have changed.]
To get my bearings on my first… Read More
2014-10-25 16:56
[Editors’ note – this review was first published in 2014 and some information might need updating]
It was an interesting introduction to my holiday of a lifetime in the Cayman Is… Read More
2014-09-12 18:28
[Editors’ note – this review was first published in 2014 and some information might need updating]
It’s just as well that an overnight stay at St Martin’s Lane centra… Read More
2014-08-28 11:09
It isn’t every day I stay in a 17th century Palladian mansion but after just a few hours at the Luckham Park luxury hotel near Bath I was walking around as if I had lived there for yea… Read More
2014-08-27 12:42
‘Location is everything’ so the saying goes – but when it comes to the afternoon drinks and Italian nibbles at the Baglioni hotel in Kensington, it seems location can be a… Read More
2014-08-13 17:24
In some meals there is one element that is so odd – or quirky, or novel, depending on your viewpoint – that afterwards the meal is known as ‘the one with….’
My… Read More
2014-08-04 09:00
I’ve been fortunate enough to stay in some lovely country house hotels recently – sadly, Tylney Hall was not one of them.
[Note: this review of Tylney Hall was first publish… Read More
2014-08-02 21:55
[Editors’ note – this review was first published in 2014 and some information might need updating]
There are worse things to do on a Monday morning spending the day at Centurion… Read More
2014-07-28 09:20
It is always a good sign of a hotel restaurant if you could imagine going back there without being an overnight guest and Apero definitely fits that description.
Tucked beneath the Ampersand… Read More
2014-07-28 09:05
[Editors’ note – this review was first published in 2014 and some information might need updating]
Hotels in Kensington London are plentiful but it might be hard to pick the righ… Read More
2014-07-28 09:00
[Editor’s note: this review of Barts Speakeasy South Kensington was first published in 2014]
In spite of living and working just a mile away from South Kensington and passing through i… Read More
2014-07-08 19:40
[Editor’s note: This review of the Swan at Lavenham was first published in 2014. For a more up to date review of this hotel click here or go to https://aladyofleisure.com/the-swan-at-l… Read More
2014-07-08 17:39
[Note: this review of the Beefeater gin distillery visitors centre was first published in 2014]
Vauxhall in London is known for many things – the Oval cricket ground, a permanently tra… Read More
2014-06-14 16:10
[Note: My review of Mark Warner Tignes was first published in June 2014]
You could never accuse Mark Warner of skimping on the apres-ski hospitality – or, for that matter, the pre-ski… Read More
2014-06-03 14:03
[Note: this review of Center Parcs Woburn Forest was written in 2014 when the park was first opened]
Center Parcs is practically immune from criticism. With occupancy running at a staggering… Read More
2014-05-08 14:42
Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is usually a beautiful, serene, quintessentially British sort of place, where visitors happily amble around admiring the stately grandeur of the birthplace of… Read More
2014-04-10 18:51
It was halfway through dinner at my first two-Michelin-starred restaurant experience at the Fischers Fritz in Berlin when I realised I was far more a ‘drinkie’ than a ‘food… Read More
2014-04-09 13:09
Berlin is the kind of city where even a seemingly mundane walk to the local supermarket can turn out to be an emotional experience.
It had been 27 years since I was last in Berlin and was he… Read More
2014-04-09 12:32
It’s amazing how quickly you can feel like a ‘local’ while staying somewhere completely new to you.
For me it was when I came back from a trip to the supermarket with… Read More
2014-03-19 20:55
The traffic-and-commuter-saturated High Holborn usually has little to recommend it, being full of gridlocked buses and office workers doing the twice-daily rat run to and from the tube.
But… Read More
2014-02-28 20:32
Cannizaro House in Wimbledon. Sadly that isn’t my car.
Note: This review is from Feb 2014. Cannizaro House is now owned by Hotel Du Vin so will have changed since my visit. If you&rsqu&hell…Read More
2014-02-20 13:48
The line-up for the evening. And yes, there was food too…
It isn’t often that you see a man wearing a hessian sack telling a room of beer-drinking women they would mak… Read More
2014-02-16 15:38
Equinox gym London could possibly be one of the most expensive gyms in Kensington or even one of the priciest gyms in London. And as it’s one of the most luxurious gyms in London, it i… Read More
2014-02-03 19:35
The bar staff at London House had designed some wonderful cocktails which were a perfect start to the evening
[Note: This review of Gordon Ramsay London House Battersea Square is from its op… Read More
2014-02-01 09:00
Well – I did it. An entire January’s-worth of alcoholic abstinence.
And yes, it was a VERY long month.
But the surprising discovery for me is not only that I have far grea… Read More
2014-01-29 13:37
First time novelist Nathan Filer with his Costa award-winning book, The Shock of the Fall
My taxi driver was very excited when I said there would be loads of celebrities at the Costa Book Aw… Read More
2014-01-27 13:55
The TGI Friday’s restaurant chain turned itself around, thanks to a fire that gutted one of its flagship sites, I’m told in my interview with Karen Forrester from TGI Fridays.
W… Read More
2014-01-24 13:37
It was off to the rather fabulous private members’ club The Arts Club on Wednesday evening and the launch party for its new hotel. Sadly the hotel itself, with its 16 r… Read More
2014-01-22 18:34
The Bellagio hotel and casino – our home for the next seven days
You’re never too old to visit Las Vegas – and here’s the proof!
Just a few days in Sin City brought… Read More
2014-01-20 18:17
A bunch of rather nervous newbie skiers try to stay upright, at least for the photograph…
Being escorted off the mountain-side by a French hunk on a snowmobile was not the way I had i… Read More
2014-01-17 20:40
Visitors to Redemption, tucked away in the unfashionable corner of London between Westbourne Park and Ladbroke Grove, first have to walk past an array of Notting Hill’s pubs and… Read More
2014-01-16 15:52
Having just a few months ago seen the jaw-dropping, mind-boggling spectacle which is Cirque du Soleil’s ‘O’ at the Bellagio, Las Vegas, the Cirque’s Quidam show at t… Read More
2014-01-09 20:34
There’s nothing more than the fitness industry loves than the newest fad, the latest trend, the ‘next big thing’.
It guarantees column inches in newspaper supplements and… Read More
2014-01-09 20:12
Mark Warner’s hotel in Latikira, Kos, Greece
Take dozens of single people, put them in a beach resort for a week, add sun and alcohol, and it’s simply a matter of time before hol… Read More
2014-01-02 20:50
My friends in the drinks industry won’t thank me, but I’ve joined the growing ranks of those who have sworn off booze for January – hello Dry January!
Swearing seems… Read More
2014-01-02 18:43
Welcome to my leisure blog A Lady of Leisure! As a journalist covering the leisure sector for a national newspaper, I am lucky enough to spend a lot of my time having amazing experienc… Read More
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