Sean Sheehan - The Glass Magazine

Glass banishes the winter blues by dining out

January 9, 2018

IT’S cold out there and, despite the shortest day being back on December 21, still getting dark ridiculously early. Spring is not around the corner and London’s glamour is in danger of being shadowed a darker h...

Feature image - Cappadocia travel feature - looking down on Cappadocia landscape

Glass balloons it over Cappadocia’s otherworldly landscape

Sean Sheehan

December 4, 2017

Feature, Travel, Turkey

GEOGRAPHY lessons at school were intensely boring and the teacher concluded it was not even worth entering me for an exam I was bound to fail. Not surprisingly, topics of a geographical kind have been off my ra...

Glass finds compelling reasons for visiting Athens

Sean Sheehan

November 6, 2017

Europe, Feature, Greece, Travel

Athenian Delights – Glass finds compelling reasons for visiting Athens IF you’re tired of Athens – someone might have said once – you’re tired of life. It was a city of renown two and a half thousand years a...

Glass hits the spot in the western Peloponnese, Greece

Sean Sheehan

October 30, 2017

Feature, Travel

GREECE as a holiday destination suffers from a design fault and a product recall looks to be imminent as travellers discover there is more to the country’s appeal than the islands that dot the Aegean Sea. On th...

Glass seeks out meals to suit your mood in some of London’s finest restaurants

Sean Sheehan

September 26, 2017

Dining, Feature

’Meals to suit moods – Glass therapeutically asks, before you choose a restaurant, how you are feeling? FEELING dissatisfied after leaving a restaurant is usually attributed to the food or the service but th...

Vancouver West Coast Wilderness Adventure - Credit Destination BC and Graeme Owsianski

Vancouver: gateway to Western Canada – Glass discovers a lifestyle city like no other

Sean Sheehan

August 29, 2017

Feature, Travel

AFTER arriving in Vancouver, it will not be long before your spirit responds to its appeal as a lifestyle destination: dramatically framed by mountains, and sea, it takes a cable car or a hike to the top of Gro...

Toronto’s food scene – Glass is excited by the city’s culinary landscape

Sean Sheehan

July 17, 2017

Dining, Feature

LONDON has long been regarded as unique given that people from all countries of the world live and work in the city. They also prepare and cook food there so the choice of restaurants offering authentic cuisine...

Glass finds joie de vivre on the east coast of India

Sean Sheehan

June 28, 2017

Feature, India, Travel

INDIA was once part of the British Empire – the jewel in the crown and so on – but that there was also a Gallic presence on the country’s east coast is not so well broadcast. And, sacré bleu, it remained under ...

Taquitos, tiraditos, trempettes and trufón – Glass explores some London restaurants

Sean Sheehan

May 25, 2017

Dining, Feature

BORN-and-bred North Londoners, like myself, never felt the need to walk along the Albert Embankment. The south side of the Thames, between Vauxhall Bridge and Westminster, was just a vista to glance a...

Veggiestan cookbook sends Glass on a meat-free mission

Sean Sheehan

March 6, 2017

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink

WHEN Sally Butcher’s vegetarian cookbook, Veggiestan, came out in 2011 some people asked her where this place was: to the east of Kyrgyzstan and just above Snackistan was her straight-faced reply when she felt ...

Glass enjoys a stopover in Lisbon

Sean Sheehan

December 19, 2016

Europe, Feature, Portugal, Travel

Lisbon: city of ceramics and culture – Glass enjoys a stopover in Portugal’s capital MOST European capital cities have their “must-see” sights – a particular building, bridge, museum, whatever -- promoted wi...

Front Cover. A walk in a rainbow at ARoS in Aarthus

Glass surprises itself on a trip to Aarhus – Denmark’s second-largest city

Sean Sheehan

November 28, 2016

Europe, Feature, Rest of Europe, Travel

EVERYONE is likely to visit Denmark’s capital sometime in their life but Aarhus, one of those destinations that only other Scandinavians visit in large numbers, is a well-kept traveller’s secret. A common respo...

Scrumdiddlumptious – Glass discovers new places to experience London’s food scene

Sean Sheehan

November 14, 2016

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink

THE ANGEL in Islington is a neighbourhood teeming with eateries and the appeal of another new restaurant there is diminished by the frequency of their appearance. Now they are beginning to colonize Essex Road b...

Front cover.Luxurious dining at Il Palagio

Glass visits some delightful places to stay in Florence and the Tuscan countryside

Sean Sheehan

August 16, 2016

Europe, Feature, Italy, Travel

TIME spent in the museums and art galleries of Florence is an enthralling experience. From the glories of the Uffizi Gallery to the magnificence of Michelangelo’s David, to the ancient artworks decorating stree...

Front Cover.Sit out on the terrace at the Lungarno for breakfast and enjoy the views of the river

Summer in Tuscany – Glass visits some delightful places to stay in Florence and the Tuscan countryside

Sean Sheehan

July 26, 2016

Europe, Feature, Italy, Travel

TIME spent in the museums and art galleries of Florence is an enthralling experience. From the glories of the Uffizi Gallery to the magnificence of Michelangelo’s David, to the ancient artworks decora...

Summer on a plate. Front Page. Wimbledon Dessert at The Refinery Banksidey

Summer on a Plate – Glass finds new menus and restaurants for London’s summer season

Sean Sheehan

July 11, 2016

Feature, Travel

SUMMER is coming and it’s time to dine al fresco, wearing sunglasses and in clothes that have laid hibernating in a drawer over long winter months. “Life is short, buy the shoes” – words printed on a wall at Th...

Front page. Laced in luxury, Kenya. Riverside location for Galdessa Camp

East Kenya – Glass discovers the recipe for the perfect safari

Sean Sheehan

June 6, 2016

Feature, Travel

MOST safaris are memorable because the wildlife that you see up close and in the wild provide unique experiences. It doesn’t help, though, if some in your group –usually male for some reason –have cameras and b...

Two Cities: One Japan – Glass finds special places to stay and eat in Tokyo and Kyoto

Sean Sheehan

May 10, 2016

Dining, Feature, Travel

PLANNING a trip to Japan is a mouth-watering experience. There is so much to see and do (and eat!) that it would take a lifetime of holidays to really get a feel for the place. Skiing, walking, water sports, mo...

Glass visits Dublin during its 1916 Easter Rising celebrations

Sean Sheehan

April 25, 2016

Dining, Europe, Feature, Ireland, Travel

CENTENARY celebrations of Dublin’s 1916 Easter Rising were dignified affairs and triumphalist displays of narrow-minded nationalism were not to be seen. There was a sense that something important had taken plac...

The entrance to Thirty Six restaurant in Dukes Hotel

Restaurants to remember – Glass visits four London restaurants situated in buildings of historic renown

Sean Sheehan

March 14, 2016

Feature

IT’S a baffling fact of life that we sometimes forget what was eaten in a restaurant but remember the wallpaper or the waiter; recalling whether the meal was enjoyable or not but at a loss to recollect what was...

Taiwan_Ut-Theatre's location is not downtown Taipei

Culture Not Computers – Glass visits Taiwan and discovers more culture than circuit boards

Sean Sheehan

March 7, 2016

Dining, Feature, Travel

TAIWAN is home to many of the gadgets we love – smartphones and that nifty transformer laptop – and its a Taiwanese company that makes the iPhone in China but the country has another face that is very...

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