Spa Guide 2012
Country & Town House | 24 Aug 2012
If you’re looking to lose weight, get fit, reboot or just get away from it all, let our spa guide lead you to a life of wellbeing and serenity.
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A castle in Tuscany
Waitrose | 18 Aug 2012
Standing under the shade of a tree in the gardens of Castello di Vicarello, Nonna is rolling out a bed-sheet sized piece of pasta on a table. There’s a gentle breeze and the scent of jasmine and lavender fills the air. The 12th-century castle in the Maremma region of southwest Tuscany is framed by vineyards and rolling hills on which wild boar roam.
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Bangkok without the bang
Spear’s | 22 Jun 2012
I’m not ordinarily a fan of Bangkok – too much heat, too many knockoffs – but then there’s the Sukhotai hotel. Yes it’s surrounded by high-rise buildings in one of the noisiest and most traffic-choked cities in the world. But stop a while – inside, it’s pure orchid filled Zen and The Art of Hotel Living. Plus it offers something that’s as rare as a paragliding saffron-robed monk: it’s a resort hotel set calmly in the centre of the city.
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Glamorous, grown-up… and bulimic
Easy Living | 19 Jun 2012
I’m at a reunion dinner for some of my erstwhile classmates: ten of us – including a psychotherapist, a doctor and a lawyer – now 50 years old, successful and glamorous. Conversation falls to the topic of food and bodies. Then something startling is revealed. Seven of us admit to having suffered from eating disorders at school – bulimia, compulsive overeating or anorexia.
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The possibility of a miracle
The Sunday Times Magazine | 20 May 2012
The couple were cuddled up on a sofa, talking about their good fortune. “We lead such a charmed life,” James Collins told his wife, Sharmila Nikapota. The Cambridge-educated professionals enjoyed the theatre, dining out, romantic holidays. They had a lovely home and planned a family. “The world was our oyster,” Sharmila, now 43, says. James is a commercial barrister, recently made a QC. Sharmila used to be a vet. On July 15, 2002, their perfect world was shattered. Their first child, Sohana, was born with the genetic skin condition recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB).
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Spear’s Spa Selection
Spear’s | 13 Feb 2012
A former Barclays Bank branch has been reborn as the Chuan Spa in the grand 19th-century Langham Hotel, London. Now that the money men have gone, the spa has settled prettily in a brilliant spot on Portland Place – directly opposite Broadcasting House, the iconic home of the BBC, and just a few Louboutin-shod steps from Bond Street and even more exclusive Mount Street.
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To the manor barn
Spear’s | 13 Jan 2012
Switzerland presents the tourist with two competing visions: getting back to nature as you glide effortlessly – or tumble gracelessly – down a black run, and avoiding nature entirely in some of its best hotels, tapping away on your BlackBeryy as you ignore your family. The two rarely collide, so when one of those five-star hotels offers a stay in the most expensive rustic hut on the planet, something uniquely, oddly Swiss is happening.
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Reinventing the heel
Country & Town House | 1 Dec 2011
The sandstone building shimmers like a mirage. Perhaps a huge creamy Moroccan fort. Actually it’s a resort in Puglia – in the heel of Italy – and a feat of vision and design. It’s a place that has opened to oohs and ahhs. And to which photographers from Architectural Digest Italia to Vogue France have been hotfooting it.
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A brush with mortality
The Sunday Times Magazine | 6 Nov 2011
When JG Ballard died, in April 2009, few people knew he had been planning a new work. The author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, celebrated for his bleak dystopian vision, had proposed a book co-written with his oncologist, Jonathan Waxman, to be called Conversations with my Physician: the Meaning, if Any, of Life.
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Doyenne of the downturn
Spear’s | 19 Sep 2011
The year may have been humbling for many of the hedge-fund industry’s biggest stars and other experienced investors and traders. Many have found it hard to cope with the effects of Japan’s disasters, uneven US and British economic recoveries, commodity price volatility and concerns about the solvency of Greece and other European nations. This is hardly the time, you would think, for the wives of hedgies to be demanding a new personal shopper, only the woman in question is devoted to rationalising your portfolio (of clothes) and helping you avoid a haircut (on ill-advised purchases).
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Ardent admirer
E.S. | 24 May 2011
Prince Edward’s relationship with Sophie Rhys-Jones has made him front page news. He was keen to put the record straight when talking to Caroline Phillips.
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The Fatal Feast
Elle | 19 May 2011
Bulimia nervosa, the compulsive eating syndrome, is on the increase. As the ideal body gets thinner, the media pressure to slim becomes greater. Conventional and feminist methods have not solved the problem, but now Paulette Maisner offers a more commonsense approach which appears to be working. Caroline Phillips meets her to discuss the treatment.
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