Issue October 2015 - Conde Nast Traveller UK (2024)

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In this issueEDITOR’S LETTERAS FESTIVAL SEASON DRAWS TO A CLOSE I feel I’m ready to talk about Glastonbury. Every year Marcus and I used to go to Glastonbury. But one year, I had a rather disastrous return to civilisation.Following on from a sensational few days of swilling about in pear cider, kissing Wayne Rooney and doing tumble-turns in someone’s Winnebago, I came back slap bang into parents’ evening. I sat there with one hand over my eye. ‘Yes, Mr Armitage,’ I said, quietly, fixating on his lapel. Straight after parents’ evening was my middle daughter’s seventh birthday party. Animal Man came. Animal Man brought a variety of creatures including a skunk, a meerkat, a pancake turtle (looks as it sounds) and a chinchilla. There was an embarrassing moment when I refused to give…3 min

In this issueCONTRIBUTORSSteve McCurryPhotographer, Tibet (p126)‘One of the most amazing restaurants I’ve been to in a long time is La Taverna in Perugia, a couple of hours from Rome. There are so many great wines in that part of Umbria and the landscape is breathtaking. I’ve been to Italy dozens of times but this was one of the best places.’Steve has won many top photography awards, including the Robert Capa Gold MedalSharyn CairnsPhotographer, Mornington Peninsula (p134)‘The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco takes place three days a week and is full of people lining up for smokedbeef rolls and homemade treats. My highlight is the fish tacos: fresh tuna with cabbage, zesty mayo and sesame seeds on top.’Sharyn is collaborating on an interiors book which is due out early next yearOlivia…2 min

In this issueWORD OF MOUTHLITTLE VOICEHer single ‘Baby Love’ was the sleeper hit of the summer and now French singer Petite Meller has got lots more big ideasTo misquote Sam Cooke, pop stars don’t know much about philosophy. Safe to say Rita Ora has probably never been troubled by the existential fallacy of Bertrand Russell. But the subject has an unlikely champion in the coquettish form of Paris-born Petite Meller. The knickerbocker-glory chanteuse (all raspberry cheeks, ice-cream skin and vintage halternecks) writes her ‘nuovo jazzy-pop’ songs during seminars while studying for her masters. Her videos are certainly thought-provoking. The one for ‘Baby Love’ was shot around Nairobi’s Giraffe Manor, partly inspired by And God Created Woman and starring local flamingos and schoolchildren. ‘The philosophers I love are Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan,’ she says.…3 min

In this issueSOCIAL NETWORKSOVERGROUNDNot many people know that the Promenade Plantée in Paris predates the High Line by 16 years, but it’s the French capital’s Petite Ceinture, or Little Belt, that’s currently in the spotlight. With just one small section officially open as a park in the 16th arrondissem*nt, quirky venues such as urban farm and canteen La Recyclerie are popping up in deserted stations the length of the 19-mile loop. More permanent is Arbory, Melbourne’s longest bar, which stretches along the old Sandridge train line – shuttered 30 years ago – at Flinders Street station. In Chicago The Bloomingdale Trail, a freight route elevated in 1913, is the centrepiece of The 606, which opened in June. And in Peckham, South London, a project is gaining support to transform an old coal siding…2 min

In this issueHOW THE WEST WAS DONEThe city’s New England location might suggest white clapboard and russet leaves, but in fact its Downtown and Old Port areas are packed with 19th-century warehouses turned galleries, boutiques and bars.STAY In the former offices of the Portland Press Herald, the seven-storey Press Hotel has rooms inspired by 1920s writers’ offices, with letterpress art, vintage desks and Clark Kent-style glass doors, plus hot-ticket restaurant Union and drinking den Inkwell.EAT Dinner crawls are a thing here: start with oysters at Eventide (they have 10 sparkling Maine varieties), add noodles at the just-opened Honey Paw, then dessert at dark-and-sexy Hugo’ – they’re all on the same block. Other standouts are Duckfat (try their poutine with duck gravy) and the brand new Bao Bao, which serves a Portland take on dumplings.DRINK Coffee and…2 min

Issue October 2015 - Conde Nast Traveller UK (2024)

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