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Elena Bowes

New York-London design & culture writer of a certain vintage looking for meaning and wholeness in life

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July 15th, 2014 | Places

Slow Down and Smell the Truffles

A week ago I knew very little about Umbria apart from that it’s  in Italy somewhere below Tuscany and has six letters. Of its capital city Perugia, I knew a…

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July 3rd, 2014 | Places

Don’t Forget Your Sunscreen

London is having a moment, a very sunny one. Take a walk in the park, lunch al fresco and spend as much time as possible enjoying this blip of California…

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June 25th, 2014 | Places

Capering in the Cotswolds

Breathtakingly beautiful, bucolic and at times buzzy, the Cotswolds is the ideal weekend getaway from London. Read my article for Trufflepig, a spirited site devoted to digging up the best in…

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June 13th, 2014 | Places

Ham Yard Heaven

Prepare to be dazzled by Firmdale’s latest, largest and boldest hotel, Ham Yard. From the huge bronze Tony Cragg sculpture  in the leafy courtyard to a Texan, solid maple, 1950’s…

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May 28th, 2014 | Places

My Mykonos

Read my in-depth report on buzzy, beautiful Mykonos in Indagare– where to stay, eat, shop and see. May, 2014

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May 23rd, 2014 | Places

Summer-time Birthday Presents

For some reason I like Gemini’s (being one myself, I guess we are pretty terrific) so I need to get going on the birthday present front. South Kensington never fails…

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May 7th, 2014 | Places

Hipster Heaven

I can’t think of a cooler, more relaxed European city for young people or the young at heart than Berlin. (Barcelona is up there too). This past weekend my boyfriend…

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May 1st, 2014 | Places

Photography Prize 2014

Photography fans should stop in at the Photographer’s Gallery near Regent Street in London. The work of four  very different shortlisted candidates for this year’s Deutsche Borse Photography Prize is…

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