Author Sean Sheehan

August 7, 2018

WAITING in queues and the constant proximity of too many other people are bugbears of modern life that the mechanics of travelling manages to intensify. What a relief to have them disappear once you walk out of...

Glass reviews Van Gogh: The artist for all seasons

July 20, 2018

Books, Feature

A NEW book – Van Gogh and the Seasons – celebrates and illustrates Van Gogh’s urgent desire to capture on canvas the changing colours of the seasons. Trees and Undergrowth. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Van Gogh...

Glass visits Lovely Liguria, one of Italy’s smallest regions

July 19, 2018

MOUNTAIN valleys, blue vistas and medieval townscapes, artisan food and wines – western Liguria is off the tourist radar for many and all the better for it. Liguria, one of Italy’s smallest regions, is split...

Glass reviews London’s vegan dining scene

May 31, 2018

Feature, Food & Drink

VEGETARIANISM is now part of the food landscape – witness the success of National Vegetarian Week that has just ended – but until very recently the same was not remotely true for veganism. There is change in...

Glass reviews Diego Rivera: Complete Murals

April 30, 2018

Books, Feature

DIEGO Rivera remains Mexico’s greatest painter and a towering figure in world art and yet his work is relatively unknown outside the Americas. A sumptuous new art book from Taschen should go a long way in re...

SOUTH AFRICA : White rhinoceros and her offspring

Glass goes on a bush walk in South Africa

April 23, 2018

SETTING your phone alarm for 04.45 while on holiday feels like the act of a masochist and I blame a Dutch couple whom I’d met a day earlier. They told me I would not regret going on a morning bush walk organis...

The grand exterior of Hotel Felix in Cambridge

Glass gets clever and goes to Cambridge

March 9, 2018

YOU may only have a weekend but every now and again a short break from London becomes an irresistible need. Somewhere close and easy to reach but also non-metropolitan, different to London: antique charm would ...

Glass comes close to nirvana in Namibia

February 26, 2018

Africa, Culture, Feature, Travel

OPEN spaces on an epic scale, landscapes that embrace the desolate and the dramatic, an initially disconcerting lack of other people (fellow travellers and Namibians) that soon settles into a comfortable normal...

Glass has a peach of a time in Jozie, South Africa

February 5, 2018

REFERRING to the city of Johannesburg as Jo-burg is merely convenient, reducing its four syllables to two, but calling it Jozie seeks to soften the syllables and bring a feminine touch to its harsh reputation. ...

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

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

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

October 30, 2017

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

September 26, 2017

’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

August 29, 2017

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

July 17, 2017

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

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

May 25, 2017

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

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