In total anticipation for the Beauty and the Beast film release, the Kensington Hotel is proposing an afternoon tea total featured with the film’s characters.   Be our guest, be our guest… the music plays and sticks to mind while you delight yourself with Mr Cogworth’s face chocolate ganash… Scenes of the movie are very well represented in the tea’s delights…you feel that at any time Mrs Pott will ask how you are  while you pour the tea into your cup… Kensington Hotel – London until the 30th November! Tale As Old As Time XX Valentina… Read more

Do not miss it! Do not miss it! Do not miss it! If you are in Switzerland…. It is a mantra that should stick in your mind.. Do not miss the Monet exposition at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel. It is there until the end of May… End of my holidays, on the way home… Bye bye in Style..  Some pictures for your delight! XX Valentina… Read more

Love is in the air… Everywhere I look around!!! My husband really spoiled me rotten this year. We are on holidays for skiing in the region of Interlaken. First time on holidays in Switzerland… It had to be in style… For a special night, we went very authentic and cliché… Swiss fondue… For those who may not know, Interlaken is in the central part of Switzerland and as the name says, it is in between two lakes… Lake Thun and lake Brienz… It is a splendid town just facing the most amazing mountains of Switzerland, the Jungfraujoch… The hotel Victoria… Read more