Fife Arms hotel review: The Times

Fife Arms hotel review: The Times

This astonishing Hauser & Wirth-owned hotel, is crammed with some of the world’s best artworks. I go back to see if the new chef has upped the food offering.  The extraordinariness of The Fife Arms hotel in Braemar is a given. Since being transformed in 2018...
See Rome in a Bubble Car: The Times

See Rome in a Bubble Car: The Times

A vintage cinquecento tour of Rome’s best bits is a great way to see the city In Rome, the allure of an original Fiat 500 — the Cinquecento — is so strong that if you park one beside a Ferrari Testarossa it is the little bubble car that gets the attention. When...
10 Days at Fasting clinic Buchinger Wilhelmi: The Times

10 Days at Fasting clinic Buchinger Wilhelmi: The Times

Sophie Pither finds out what eating 200 cals per day at a luxury German fasting clinic feels like Back in my twenties I would shed half a stone on holiday through a whirlwind of dancing, late nights and little food. Today, nearing 50, trips abroad have the opposite...
Where to eat and drink in Trancoso, Brazil: Olive Magazine

Where to eat and drink in Trancoso, Brazil: Olive Magazine

Where and what to eat and drink in Trancoso, an idyllic, palm-fringed beach town in the northeast of Brazil Brazil’s 8000km of coastline isn’t short of tropical, palm-fringed paradise. But the best bit is surely Trancoso, in Bahia, Brazil’s northeastern coastal...
Venice revisited: The Times

Venice revisited: The Times

Sophie Pither starts a joyful revisit of Venice with a trip to the opera I am sitting in the stalls of La Fenice, Venice’s shimmering wedding cake of an opera house, when I feel a tap on the shoulder. I must move my coat from the back of my velvet chair, the usher...