India street food is an explosion of colours and smells, as varied as the humanity it serves. Freshness is a necessity and the fragrance of food is exceptional. Every stall is a surprise both for the food than for the resourcefulness of how it is prepared and served.
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India street food is an explosion of colours and smells, as varied as the humanity it serves. Freshness is a necessity and the fragrance of food is exceptional. Every stall is a surprise both for the food than for the resourcefulness of how it is prepared and served.
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Weathered, scalped by many winds and suns, each a map of tales and adventured told and lived.
Here the many faces of India.
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There is so much we cannot do right now. But one thing we can always do and no pandemic or war will ever be able to steal it from us: our ability to dream and imagine, envision the future and explore possibilities.
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This year my New Year’s Resolutions are going to look pretty different from the normal list of goals and achievements that I am planning to score in the next 12 months I would normally compile. It’s gonna be more about attitudes and general directions and less about factual, observable and quantifiable goals.
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If you have decided not to travel far this Christmas, you can still enjoy beautiful short trips, weekends mini-breaks or day out choosing to travel local. For all UK residents I cannot recommend enough the properties managed by the National Trust for a mix of history, culture, beautiful architecture, nature and a good story.
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This year, we want a fun Christmas: a beautiful and whimsical table, delicious and elegant food that is gentle on our waistline and doesn’t leave us in a food coma, inexpensive and easy to organise menus and decorations… It’s possible and easily achieved. It’s all about reinterpreting traditions.
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If you are looking for a Christmas present for friends near and far that is heartfelt, inexpensive and suitable for the wanderers’ mindset, often the best solution is the simplest one: an old school, handwritten and personalised Christmas Card.
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Today a very fashionable neighbourhood, where dismissed industrial spaces are renovated and turned into light and airy lofts appealing to the young and trendy new generation of residents, this area of Milan was once home to a varied humanity that spaced from hardworking factories employees to underprivileged families, sex workers and pimps, poker and billiard players, hardcore gamblers and conmen, funny characters and newly arrived immigrants…
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Milan is a discreet lady who doesn’t boast about its beauty and richness. Milan is an upper class lady who is pretty confident about her means and prospects and really doesn’t need to impress. Yet impress she does, just for the effortless way she carries herself around…
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Nestled in a little hamlet in East Sussex, Monk’s house is the unpretentious country retreat of Virginia Woolf where she wrote most of her famous novels: Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando andThe Waves…
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If you think of Kenyan breakfasts, the first aroma recollection is the one of a steaming cup of chai. The second is the one of these golden puffy triangles are the perfect accompaniment for a Kenyan cup of tea and the perfect snack to nibble on through the day.
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Swahili food is typical of the East African coastal area, particularly of Kenya and Tanzania, a unique cultural melting pot that has turned out a unique syncretic cuisine. Many cuisines have become very common around the world and can be enjoyed virtually anywhere, but African Cuisine has still to make it to the world stage. Since they are relatively easy to make, why not cooking them at home?
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Bateman’s is a Jacobean Manor built in local sandstone dating back to 1634, where Rudyard Kipling, the author of The Jungle Book lived from 1902 till his death in 1936, now property of the National Trust… Read more
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Kenya is crossed by the Equator and it shares approximately the same latitude of the Seychelles, the Maldives and Bali and as these world famous beach holiday destinations it’s also welcoming you with lines of coconut trees, warm waters and sandy beaches
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In this garden there is more than the lure of pretty architecture and beautiful plants. Literary inspiration, love stories, secrets and an endless poetry transfused everywhere just makes it all more attractive.
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Let’s have a chat about belonging, cultural identity, migration and finding a home wherever you are, for all those who are relocating or thinking to, for all those dreaming to live abroad but too scared to take the final step, to ease up all the contrasting feelings that moving house and country can fire up and reassure everyone that is going to get better!
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Of all places, what took me to Kenya? Probably the fascination with the age-old romance of wild Africa, the novels of Karen Blixen, Kuki Gallman… What kept me there for 12 years it’s what is known as Mal d’Afrique, an incurable illness that, on the highlands plains, I can feel stronger than anywhere else.
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