https://www.scmp.com/rss/324249/feed Adam Bloodworth is Deputy Life&Style Editor at London newspaper City A.M. and writes features on lifestyle and culture for The Telegraph, The Independent, VICE, Metro and others. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com New York chiefs are trying to rid the Big Apple of its concrete jungle reputation. Those slender skyscrapers might be interesting to glance up at for tourists, but the architectural intensity can be a turn-off if you actually live in the city. Public spaces are popping up along the west side of Manhattan Island, in particular. Former industrial piers are being reimagined as places such as the Hudson River Park, and as of this year there is even Manhattan’s first “beach”, the Gansevoort... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3276879/how-cycling-new-york-through-scenic-hudson-valley-reveals-lives-less-frenetic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3276879/how-cycling-new-york-through-scenic-hudson-valley-reveals-lives-less-frenetic?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:15:08 +0000 Powder-white sand and palm trees do not spring to mind when you imagine New York. But then again, Fire Island is not your conventional beach getaway: as our ferry pulls into the Fire Island Pines terminal, a drag queen curled around a part of the wooden jetty, dangling over the ocean, yells into a microphone, “Welcome, welcome.” It is barely midday. On Fire Island you soon learn to expect fabulous distractions. Since the 1950s, creatives – and particularly the LGBTQ crowd – have made pilgrimages... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3263436/trip-fire-island-new-yorks-sandy-lgbtq-sanctuary-and-longtime-font-inspiration-where-simplicity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3263436/trip-fire-island-new-yorks-sandy-lgbtq-sanctuary-and-longtime-font-inspiration-where-simplicity?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 May 2024 11:15:14 +0000 Rays of hope for the beleaguered Iran nuclear pact emerged on Friday, as Britain, France and Germany stepped forward with fresh sanctions to keep US President Donald Trump from withdrawing.  On an even more positive note, Trump’s lead diplomat on the Iran nuclear deal said on Friday that the US can stay in the accord and still alter the Persian Gulf nation’s destabilising activities. “We believe we can work within the nuclear deal,” Brian Hook, the State Department’s director of policy planning,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2137608/eu-proposes-fresh-sanctions-against-iran-convince-us-preserve?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2137608/eu-proposes-fresh-sanctions-against-iran-convince-us-preserve?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:13:12 +0000 Macedonia? Why not? There’s something glorious about being a tourist in a place that attracts so few. The country’s abundant viti­culture and vast national parks have some­how been overlooked by tourists in favour of more glamorous Balkan countries such as Croatia, but slowly the nation is edging away from the shadow of Yugoslav rule. One of Macedonia’s main propo­nents of tourism is ex-footballer Pece Cvetkovski. Having played for the local team – as well as FK Skopje, in the capital, and in... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2083184/taste-good-life-rural-macedonian-bolthole?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/2083184/taste-good-life-rural-macedonian-bolthole?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Apr 2017 07:17:54 +0000