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Desert island bliss
Ellie Fazan joins a new safari boat tour of The Philippines' 'last frontier', an archipelago of hidden coves, coral reefs and empty white beaches.
Life below zero
Wildlife photographer Ginny Scholes fulfilled a lifelong dream when she took her camera on an Antarctic expedition
Horse power
Voluntourism in Malawi: can horse power make a better world?
Barefoot paradise
Welcome to Gili Lankanfushi, where luxury, privacy, and exclusivity truly take on new meaning.
Brand consultant for fashion startups
For Ziggy Lloyd – a sustainable fashion start-up – I hosted a full-day workshop to galvanise the brand.
Boat trip
THE ROUTE: island-hopping in the Philippines. THE VESSEL: a native bangka boat.
Inverting the female form
Meet Polly. She’s the artist who bends herself into weird shapes in abandoned houses in a quest to invert traditional perceptions of the female form.
Picturing the end of the world
Lying face-down in penguin poo during a blizzard, surrounded by the overwhelming sight, smell and sound of 80,000 pairs of king penguins and their chicks
Antarctica: The women breaking barriers on Earth’s last frontier
Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, the American and British Antarctic surveys barred women from working on the white continent.
Peace, privacy, and prestige
Enjoy quintessential English charm in Virginia Water, Surrey.
Jan de Villeneuve
From being a model in the ‘60s to being a model in one’s 70s, Jan de Villeneuve knows a thing or two about fashion.
Shutterspeed
Think life moves too fast? Ellie Fazan meets the Londoner who’s developed a technique to slow down time
Egg heads
In suburban Brentford, Ellie Fazan discovers Hen Corner – the back garden that Sara Ward has turned into a mini organic paradise
A new customer magazine for Cotswold Company called HOMELIFE
In January 2021 Cotswold Company approached me, asking if I could pull together a team to create their first editorially-led customer magazine. Oh, and they wanted it printed and with customers by April.
Come over here!
Donald Marshall, his alter ego Ginger Johnson, and partner Ben live in a small live-work space. From the street it doesn’t look magic but stuffed with props, it’s an inspiring hub for a performer/writer/singer.
Ananda in the Himalayas
Visitors will need to forget the idea that yoga should be hot or fast or dynamic to get the most from Ananda.
No ordinary Joe
We’re being dripped on by rain in a studio hidden away on a north London industrial estate. The Hawaiian shirts belie the miserable, and frankly quite British, weather outside.
Luxury homes magazines
The Luxury Edition – for Christie’s International Real Estate – is a stunning and luxurious coffee-table book: a high-spec collection of the ‘best of the best’ properties, featuring original photography and writing, commissioned and edited by me.
Gaze on Istanbul
So wrote 19th-century French author Alphonse de Lamartine, in his brilliant and bold account, Voyage En Orient.
Grand central
Freelance travel writer Ellie Fazan visits Uzbekistan. Set at the heart of the ancient Silk Road in central Asia, the country is full of surprises