Cultural Olympiad: London 2012 Festival

To coincide with the 2012 Summer Games, London Olympic organizers will offer a blockbuster program within the Cultural Olympiad, called London 2012 Festival. Some 900 venues will be used for the festival, which runs from June 21-to Sept.9. Artists including Cate Blanchett, Damien Hirst, Wynton Marsalis, Yoko Ono and Ai Wei Wei are set to … Read more

The most popular and the worst seats on a plane: poll

Flight comparison site Skyscanner revealed the results of its poll of 1,000 travelers’ seat preferences. The poll questioned respondents on their seat preferences (aside from extra legroom seats) including which section and whether they chose window, middle or aisle seats. The poll also delved deeper to find out if choices were influenced by lucky numbers … Read more

Palazzo Versace set to fetch around $80 million

Palazzo Versace on Queensland’s Gold Coast  is going on the market   Built nearly 12 years ago, the 200-room Palazzo Versace luxury hotel on Queensland’s Gold Coast is going on the market. Owner the Sunland Group expects the hotel to bring at least $80 million. Sunland also owns a $25 million central Brisbane development site. The … Read more

World’s best restaurant comes to London. A Taste of Noma at Claridge’s

Chef René Redzepi is exporting his acclaimed restaurant Noma to London   Luxury hotel Claridge’s, the iconic London establishment, recruited chef René Redzepi to open a temporary outpost of his famous Noma restaurant, called the best restaurant in the world. Noma has topped the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for two years running (2010 and … Read more

Louis Vuitton Classic Serenissima Run: Yves Carcelle to offer first Louis Vuitton Classic Award

 Louis Vuitton Classic Serenissima Run 2012 43 classic cars leave from Monte Carlo and finish in Venice  Louis Vuitton has always been close to art of travel in style. For this reason, the French luxury house decided to launch the initiative of the Classic Run. Designed in the ’90s (the first was the Vintage Equator … Read more

Italo – Italy’s first private high-speed train. Actually the most modern train in Europe

Italy’s Italo private high-speed train features interiors styled by Italdesign Giugiaro   Italo, Italy’s first private high-speed train billed the most modern train in Europe, will begin running on April 28, and will initially start with services on the Napoli – Roma – Firenze – Bologna – Milano corridor. The network will be later extended to Salerno, … Read more