Top Seven Travel Trends from 2013 Virtuoso Travel Week. Virtuoso luxury travel network announced Top Seven Travel Trends from Virtuoso Travel Week, one of luxury travel’s preeminent events. From the top seven travel trends revelead “catering to the individual traveler: personalized travel is the new definition of luxury” emerged as the overarching trend. The … Read more
French freestyle climber Alain Robert, known as the ‘Spiderman’, set his sights on Dubai’s Twisted Tower (306 metres (1,004 ft). Robert plans to get to the top of Cayan Tower in Dubai, the world’ s tallest twisted tower, two years after he surmounted the world’s tallest tower – Burj Khalifa. Robert, better known as … Read more
The 6ft 2in, size 16 Australian is a Vogue cover star and food writer who thinks fashion has a weight problem
Kunst Haus Wien is holding a retrospective devoted to the oeuvre of Linda McCartney, one of the most interesting photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition, which is the first comprehensive retrospective of McCartney’s works worldwide, presents 190 of her iconic photographs of sixties rock and roll, her family life and nature. Linda McCartney, who … Read more
Luxury home values increased in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego in the second quarter of 2013 compared to a year ago, according to the First Republic Prestige Home Index by First Republic Bank. In the second quarter of 2013, the Index indicated the following: San Francisco Bay Area values climbed 10.9% from the … Read more
Two billion people already eat insects as part of their regular diet – bugs may not sound appealing, but once upon a time neither did sushi. Is it time to put ants, beetles and locusts on the menu?