Madrid fusion

Deep North
Magazine: April 2008

In Swedish it is called Skåne, in Italian Scania. It is the southernmost region of Sweden and until 1658 it was part of Denmark. Scania and Denmark are joined up ''physically'' thanks to the Öresund Bridge that connects Copenhagen to Malmö, the ''south facing Swedish window'' and th...

Street Food Paradise
Magazine: April 2008

A fabulous mix of intense and atypical fl avours. A food experience that is a gastronomic crossroads somewhere between Asia and Spain, with infl uences from Mexico and China. To understand the special features of the Philippine cuisine we need to gain some insight into the history of this nation. P...

Under the sky in Zurich
Switzerland
Magazine: March 2008

If anyone still hangs on to an idea of Zurich as only a banking city, he can get rid of it. Though efficiency and precision still distinguish the city, a current of change is definitely sweeping through it. In short, a new skyline running between the multiethnic Langstrasse and the railway platform...

N.Y. Italian style
Magazine: March 2008

Italian quality cuisine in New York has reached high levels. Almost enough to make top Italian restaurants envious. Strolling down the city avenues one realises that the so-called 'Italian Sound' has given up its place to true Italian style with labels and, above all, food of the highest quality. T...

Hacienda lifestyle
Mexico
Magazine: February 2008 Detail

Nueva cocina marinera
Spagna
Magazine: February 2008

Galicia, the natural, fi nal stop on the Santiago di Compostela Way, proposes itself once again as an appetising, gastronomic destination. After the world renowned success of cooking from Basque countries and Catalonia, Galicia is ready to step up to the podium in Spanish culinary excellence, thank...

Il Nord Pas de Calais
France
Magazine: December 2007

Arras, Baroque, beauty and bargains Famous for its elaborate Baroque and Flemish style squares, Arras surprises with the richness of its heritage and its lifestyle. The excursions into the land of Artois are not the only reasons that the tourists are attracted: the local culinary discoveries, the o...

As beautiful as art
Saint Paul de Vence - France
Magazine: November 2007

France. Just a few kilometres from Nice, Saint Paul de Vence is entrenched on a hill in viewing distance of the Alps and the Mediterranean.

The eco-chic Tropics
Maldives
Magazine: November 2007

“No news, no shoes” is the slogan written on the shoe bag offered to every guest while still aboard the dhoni, navigating towards the beach of the Soneva Fushi Resort in the Baa archipelago.

Toujours Paris
Parigi - France
Magazine: November 2007

Someone once said that to keep the spirit alive it should be nourished with frequent visits to Paris.

Maharaja Style
India
Magazine: October 2007

The Meherangarh fort perched on vertiginous cliff dominates Jodhpur, the ancient capital of the reign of Marwar, one of the 21 ''states'' founded by the various Rajput clans (a cast of noble warriors) that have dominated Rajasthan for a millennium, obeying knightly rules similar to those in existen...

Waterside treasures
Mexico
Magazine: September 2007

In the Michoacán region, the atmosphere of past times may be found in the islands on the lake, some only reachable by boat.
Janitzo island is the biggest, while Pacada is on low ground. Other villages lie on the banks of the lake and further inland: like Tzintzuntzan, capital at the time ...

Travelling through France
France
Magazine: September 2007

Normandy
Brittany
Atlantic Loire
The valley of the Loire
Poitou-Charentes

Mystical, secret and... gourmet
Greece
Magazine: September 2007

A lazy and golden afternoon in Katàpola, in the little port ofAmorgos , the island at east of the Cyclades.
Four tanned elders' playing cards at a table on the sea-front bar, while drinking Greek coffee (Gliko, with sugar added), and smoking cigarettes.
The northern wind, the Meltemi, ...

Tour of the islan
Croatia
Magazine: August 2007

Scattered like breadcrumbs, hundreds of islands facing Dalmatian coasts of endless azure and emerald Adriatic Sea are favourite summer destination for the lovers of sailing. Croatia offers countless seashore locations and possibilities to visit ancient cities such as Zara, Spalato and Dubrovnik dec...

Green Horizons
Ireland
Magazine: August 2007

Drifting through the narrow streets of Sligo and Mayo counties in the northwestern part of the island one admires pleasant scenery that seemingly walked off the palette of an 1800's painter. The sites are connected to the poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) buried in the cemetery of the Drumcliff...

Charm in the desert
Marocco
Magazine: August 2007

In the maze of stands overfl owing with tempting offers you can fi nd hills of seasoned and spicy olives, fl at and round loaves of bread and mountains of dried dates, while smells of roast meat intertwine with perfumed tea and the torrid desert wind. But the voices of Marrakech fall silent once yo...

Travelling through France, Alsace
Alsazia
Magazine: August 2007

Alsace? A border town that is open to world but clinging to its roots