Sunday, February 5, 2012

Cowboy fantasies on a ranch in Montana


Imagine you're a 12-year-old girl. Ponies and clothes are your favourite things. You've just been shopping and you're wearing your new cowboy boots, new jeans, a blue checked shirt and a real cowboy hat. You've had breakfast – blueberry pancakes with crispy bacon, just the way you like them – and now you're walking across a sunlit meadow, filled with gently grazing ponies. You're feeling pretty good.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Sunday, June 26, 2011

The perfect point to point hike in Scotland


First published in the Sunday Telegraph. 

I do like an elegant walk. Meaning a hike with a bit of structure to it, rather than a stroll with silver-topped cane and poodle. 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

No more Chinese whispers


The roar of Shanghai’s economy is getting louder every year. Ian Henderson reports for PrivatAir magazine from a quiet breakfast table at the city’s PuLi hotel.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Sweden: A place to branch out in Lapland’s forests



'If schnapps, birch and sauna don’t work, you’re probably dead,” was the advice from our guide, Lars, at the end of a long and tiring day in Harads, a tiny village halfway between Luleå on the frozen Gulf of Bothnia and Jokkmokk, the heart of Sami territory, in Swedish Lapland.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

A short break in Shanghai


Ian Henderson finds out for the Sunday Telegraph if it’s possible to get a snapshot of the world’s biggest nation in just a few days.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Sects and the city - Beirut


Ian Henderson for the Sunday Telegraph is thrilled by the tumult of flavours in Lebanon’s cultural and culinary meze.