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Postcard from the Edge - a Weekend in Capri

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How often has one heard such-and-such island described as an island of contradictions? A phrase employed to imply that there is something for everyone. Capri is not one of these islands, everything about Capri is as extreme and uncompromising as the monolithic limestone protrusion of which it is formed. Grey cliffs plunge perilously into a sapphire sea; a sea so calm one might mistake it for a lake. Around you sky and sea appear to merge so one has the feeling of being encapsulated in a brilliant blue bubble, the horizon a distant memory. There is no indecisive drizzle on Capri, when it rains it rains certainly. Then the capricious clouds clear and the air is left rich with the woody aroma of wild rosemary and the cypress trees which cling to the rock faces as adeptly as the roads which weave their precarious way through some of the most stunning views ever seen. The inhabitants are delightful and, if you were being cynical about those paid to tend daily to the numerous needs of th...

Riedel Glasses in November Good Homes Magazine

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Leg It In Julia Stringer's Page In Today's Daily Mail

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Roullier White's Mohair Throw Good Housekeeping's October Treat

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Roullier White's Mohair Throw Good Housekeeping's October Treat

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Creed Launches Aventus; Its First Men's Fragrance in 5 Years

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The House of Creed will have passed from father to son for 250 years this A/W and to celebrate, the current father and son ‘noses’, Olivier and Erwin Creed, have created an outstanding fragrance for gentlemen. Reminiscent of venture and adventuring, and inspired by heroic and powerful figures namely, Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander The Great; Aventus is a heroic fragrance that is for the bold, spirited and confident. The intrepid explorer, the conquering warrior within all of us. As the bottle motif suggests Aventus’s roots are very much in classicism however the fragrance itself is contemporary, forceful and roaring with energy. A leather finish implies power and commands respect. It is no mistake either, that the Latin word for wind, ventis, is also implied; this is a mistral of a perfume sweeping across Europe picking up the finest notes in its wake. Top note blackcurrant blends, with bergamot from Italy, whilst Calville Blanc apples mingle expertly with fruity pineapple. The middl...