Cigars have been around for over 500 years and they have never failed to deliver delight and controversy all over the world. They have always been associated with strong personalities from royals to gangsters, generals to thinkers and have marked moments for many people. In the past decade cigars had a [...]

Never before the wine world has witnessed such a frantic time when vintage 2005 in Bordeaux was harvested late October. This is without doubt an excellent year for Bordeaux, where the season-long drought through spring and summer led to berries much smaller than usual, meaning a higher skin-to-juice ratio so plenty [...]

`Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage,’ Charlie Chaplin once said. Bearing in mind Chaplin was a huge screen star at the time of the statement we can see how hard it is to judge which fads are destined to be just that, [...]

This is how we Chileans would like our country to be perceived today by the world. The key concept of this creative slogan is, of course, the ability to surprise, but it spells also a self-imposed challenge and Chile is working hard to live up to its full meaning. First, [...]

`See Naples and Die’. I have never fully understood the connotation of this statement, but after five days in Florence, I have come up with my own, `See Florence and Survive’. Survive? I hear you ask yourself. My personal advice is that you should prepare yourself in advance, both physically [...]

Is there really a correlation between mind and body. I found that they are both dependant on the other (that’s not a new realization). During periods where I have kept to a healthy lifestyle in my life I have found that my mind was a lot clearer, I knew more what [...]