I caught up with Tara the next day for a (late) brunch instead at Angelina, the legendary tea shop on the Rue du Rivoli. The house specialties are the hot chocolate and the Mont Blanc pastries – to die for! It seemed that Tara was not the only guest at the Alexander McQueen after-show party [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Milan’
October 1, 2008
Milan by day
The slow, downward death spiral of Alitalia meant I had to change my travel plans out of Milan – better safe than sorry, I always say. Unfortunately I only had half a day in my former adopted home town as a result, which meant loading up on espresso before bolting out the door to my [...]
October 1, 2008
In Transit
Monte Carlo and Milan, where I was heading for Fashion Week, may look just a couple of centimetres apart on the map but the 5-hour train journey seemed to take for ever! I passed the time reading the absolutely massive September issue of American Vogue, texting Tara Matthews and catching up on my emails.
A very [...]
October 1, 2008
The Haves and Have-Yachts
The weather in Monte Carlo, to where I headed south from Paris for the Monaco Yacht Show, was much more to my liking, with the boats at Port Hercules positively gleaming under the Mediterranean sun. It was heavenly sitting on the terrace of the Lanson champagne bar, watching the world sail by.
I mostly stayed on [...]
