They set out to make the ultimate bacon butty, ‘they’ being Bruno Loubet and  his former chef James Packman, and Le Swine is proof they’ve cracked it. A year was spent researching this butty, looking for the main ingredient, the finest free- range, pork and finding…

The Oitavos is a magnificent 5* golf and spa hotel in the Portuguese town of Cascais, just a half an hour drive from Lisbon.  I wrote a short piece for my Huffington Post blog but didn’t manage to cram in as much as I wanted.…