The sticky heat settles on your brow the minute the air hostess commands ‘doors to manual’ and you step out onto the tarmac that is Ben Gurion Airport. A short taxi ride and you are in the centre of Tel Aviv, Israel’s vivacious beating heart. Titled the ‘Mediterranean Capital of Cool’ by the New York Times, the second city that never sleeps has a way of drawing out your hedonistic side.
Your Link… with Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv been dubbed ‘the miniature Los Angeles’ by the Economist for a reason. It is the epicentre of high tech industry and scientific research in Israel. By the late 1990’s Tel Aviv had established itself as one of the world’s most technologically advanced cities, expanding rapidly ever since.
Bezalel and the joy of Jerusalem
The Bezalel Hotel is an integral part of this new world. Part of the Atlas Hotel Group, with 16 boutique hotels across Israel, it encompasses art and design in a way that perhaps its older counterparts lack. Quirky yet sophisticated, a style of its own.
Victoria Falls Safari Club, Zimbabwe
Stand completely still. Listen carefully. Gather your heightened senses; see, hear, smell, taste. Red desert dust escapes skyward. Rustling and grunting ensue. Scratching and snorting. Your eyes dart around, trying to lock eyes on theContinue reading
Cape Grace – Cape Town, South Africa
‘You have to stay here at least once in your lifetime’. That’s the tag line. As plumes of grey smoke and the thunderous boom of the Noon Gun forever consign the Cape Grace and CapeContinue reading
Gran Hotel Inglés, Madrid
It doesn’t often rain in Madrid. It’s known to, but not often. The ominous, heaving, dark clouds could’ve spelt the beginning of a rather damp weekend. But they didn’t. They couldn’t. Nothing could have dampenedContinue reading
EU must protect Latin America’s human rights defenders, says new report.
European-Latin America civil society advocacy group ‘EU-LAT Network’ has launched a new report calling on the European Union to proactively assist human rights defenders in Latin America.
Shangri-La Hotel, London
Idris Elba, the startlingly beautiful English actor, DJ, musician, writer and entrepreneur, leans seductively against the seemingly never ending glass (this writer has her biases #SorryNotSorry). St Paul’s Cathedral swims into view. He glances backContinue reading
Eminent jurists launch ‘Call to Action’ for the next European legislature
‘Europe Day’ was created 34 years ago following the call by a number of European governments to strengthen a sense of European values and collective identity based on the notion of a ‘People’s Europe’. YetContinue reading
“Peace at risk in Colombia”, say human rights organisations in Brussels
Brussels – More than 75 representatives from Colombian, European and international civil society met in Brussels last week to assess the serious human rights situation in Colombia and to alert the EU and European StatesContinue reading
