Shanghai delights

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons China’s growing economic clout has propelled Shanghai into the spotlight as a centre for international business. The good news for business travellers is that Shanghai is also a place that knows how to play. The city, known in the 1920s and 1930s as the “Paris of the East”, fell into a dreary [...]

Fighting dragons in Cappadocia

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The fresco in the ancient church puzzled us: what was the patron saint of England doing in Turkey? It was definitely St George. The painting showed a knight on horseback fighting an evil dragon, his shield with the distinctive red-on-white cross clearly visible. Of course, it turns out that St George was [...]

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