Help! Five crazy girls in London for one week. Which neighbourhoods and hotels do you recommend for the ultimate girlcation?

While many hipster aortas claim to own the resurgence of fedoras, skinny jeans and puddle jumpers worn with sockless brogues, it’s really London’s East End that can take the bow. The confines of Hackney, Shoreditch and Hoxton seem to breed food, art and fashion revolutions by the minute – while the rest of the world … More

The shores of the Atlantic and Mediterranean lure millions to Europe every year but if we had our druthers, we’d turn to the continent’s lakes for repose and brilliant scenery. Ten towns, in particular, make us jones for a little lake time.

No contest. Two words that sum up the model airports and airlines of the planet versus the duds and the flops. And in what can be no bombshell to anyone with a pulse, the best of the best, high-tech or otherwise, cluster primarily in parts of the world with sunny economic upsides, massive capital investments … More

Done in by yet another rank and file, banal still-life on the wall of your hotel bathroom? Perhaps a smart art hotel is in order. If a bold and tasteful aesthetical ethos is on your list of prerequisite perks, book a room at one of these fine UK hotels. While they may not occupy the … More

Paris. City of Light. City of Love. City of Branché Nightlife. Unfortunately, not all of us have the Fashion Week look – or the lucre – to penetrate the velvet ropes of the French capital’s most exclusive boîtes. But with so many terrific live music halls, jazz clubs, dive bars and discothèques, to even risk … More