Fashion, Milan and the Autoroute Blanche

So, here's what you do if you're in Milan, on the weekend of the Milan Fashion week - only you don't have a fat cat bank balance, fashionista wardrobe, or the street cred required to muster up passes to any of the actual mainline events -  1) Get a room in the city - even if, budget constraints dictate that you're staying so...

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Shameless Excess... Bring it On

Just back from a week in Dubai - the land of the sun, surf, dazzling lights, shameless excess - just...

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Ridiculous Fashion

Would you pay a month's rent for this? Apparently there are people who would. Take a look...

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Vive La France!

It was the worst of times, a seemingly endless winter, spent wallowing in a heap of weepy romantic comedies,...

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Pet Peeves

I know that this may be a little premature, considering I've only been here a few months (seems like a lifetime already), but here's a few things that make it real hard to love the Switzerland and locals.  1) Texting while walking - Talk about taking "Pieton is King" a little too seriously. What's with the walking with your...

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Gypped in Geneva

So I'm getting out of a meeting at one of Geneva's most prestigious hotels - The President Wilson, last evening, when I got robbed. It was a slick operation. I am an easy target, both arms full, distracted, as I finish a phone call getting into my car. A man knocks at my window and signals to my tyres. "The wheel's out of alignment,...

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Illusions and Recycled Air

The 40 something executive in a customised designer suit who zips through check in, while you wait it...

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An Apple makes a happy Valentine's Day

I'm no tech geek, in fact, if there were a Darwinian scale on tech awareness, I'd probably be hunched...

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Anyone home??

Never let it be said that I wasn't brave enough to venture out to explore the beauties of Switzerland...

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Avatar - the modern drama

The Chinese government has pulled Avatar out of an estimated 1500 theatres in China, substituting the...

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Feature - Happiness and Foreigners

It's just the first few weeks of the decade, and already, we seem to be awash with happiness surveys,...

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Getting through the Winter boot camp - Romantic Comedies

As if it weren't difficult enough to get through a Swiss winter in case you aren't a skiing, snowboarding,...

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The Starbucks Bibliotheque??

Last week's supposedly cool viral campaigns inviting female facebook users to reveal the color of their bras (to surprising success - I certainly didn't want to know my best friend's penchant for "electric pink with lace"), only reinforces the fact that pretty much anything is "cool" as long as its online. (Facebook's Bra Color...

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Ma I want to be a photojournalist!.. Nah, a weatherman is better.

JobsRated recently released its survey on the Best and Worst jobs in 2010. At the top of the worst job...

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