Category: culture

Don’t pinch my pintxos

Pix pintxos bar in Soho, London

San Sebastián foodie goodies San Sebastian or Donostia, in the Basque Country of northern Spain is foodie heaven. Boasting more Michelin stars per capita than any other place on the planet, you are never more than a few steps away from world class cuisine, either in conventional restaurants or in the informal pintxos bars that

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Rock en Seine

Nothing frames  quite like a stage, and nothing frames an artist’s performance like a music festival. Rock en Seine, in the outskirts of Paris, provided a spectacular backdrop for a broad line-up covering mainly French, British and US artists in a variety of genres- rock, electro, jazz, psychedelic, dance, avant garde.

London summer fun

Is there any city that is more special than London on a sunny summer’s afternoon? The city that demands its pound of flesh from its workers suddenly forgets to be a hard taskmaster and turns itself towards fun in the sun. Vitamin D deficient Londoners take over the parks and every open air public space

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