Every July Atticus, Bambino and I visit our artist friend Magdalena at her sea house in Sandwich Bay, Kent. This large stucco and pebble fronted house reminds me of summer houses in East Hampton, Long Island. So it's no surprise to learn that the architect who built the house in 1910 was American.
Bordeaux 2009
You're not likely to drink enough Bordeaux 2009 to require a centuries old hangover cure, salad oil. Not unless you're an oligarch, or Chinese or a Far Eastern speculator, who are the lucky few now guzzling down fine wines.
Posh Festival at Goodwood Hang onto
your top hats because Britain's about to see the launch of its first posh
summer festival. Vintage at Goodwood, August 13-15,
celebrates music and culture from the 40s to the 80s, at no less a ravishing
venue than Goodwood House, the home of the Dukes of Richmond for 300
years.
Footloose, fancy free and twenty-six, Thierry Betancourt set out on an adventure. After post grad at Oxford studying history of art and four years specializing in eighteenth century French furniture at Sotheby's on Bond Street and New York, India beckoned. To be more precise, Pondicherry beckoned.
Eh, bien, I had to laugh when I read about my fellow
compatriot, Nicolas Sarkozy,
disciplining his ministers for their high-flying spending, chuckles the Countess du Ruel. And this came just as le Président was demanding that les Français work longer and harder before
retirement.
