Estella Shardlow

London

Assistant Editor at Stylus

Assistant Editor for Retail at http://t.co/CXyuhZBAOh. All views are my own.

Articles

The under-the-radar Scottish road trip that could replace the North Coast 500

1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Estella Shardlow

Scotland's Moray Coast offers a less crowded alternative to the popular North Coast 500 (NC500) route. This scenic drive features quiet beaches, charming fishing villages like Cullen and Portsoy, and opportunities for wildlife spotting. The region boasts a sunny microclimate and is home to historical sites such as Findlater Castle. While the NC500 faces overcrowding and infrastructure strain, the Moray Coast provides a more relaxed experience.
Go west: East Devon's new culinary cool

1 week ago | mrandmrssmith.com | Estella Shardlow

Teal, turquoise, marigold yellow: the apartment blocks lining the marina pop with paintbox brights, while the gleaming yachts tethered below bob on gently lapping waves. At the far end of the boardwalk, people are tucking into hand-churned gelato and knocking back Aperol spritzes on a sun-kissed terrace. Am I in Portofino, perhaps? Or some French Riviera resort? Think again: this is Exmouth, East Devon. When I was growing up in the area, this was a traditional buckets-and-spades town.
The farms that I’ve loved and lost

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Aidan Hartley |Estella Shardlow |Justin Brierley |Grace Curley

Laikipia, KenyaI am grateful to David, a reader of this column, who kindly sent me a packet of old Kenya maps his father used when the family lived in Nairobi in the 1960s. David’s envelope took about six months to reach my postbox, which is good going, since I’ve received other letters posted several years before. I adore maps and own lots, rolled up in tubes, hanging on walls, with piles of them folded in drawers, dog-eared, rain-stained and scribbled on.
Swap the North Coast 500 for this under-the-radar Scottish road trip

1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Estella Shardlow

As the world-famous NC500 route turns 10, Estella Shardlow says it’s time to consider exploring a less touristy stretch of Scotland’s beautiful coastThe ruins of Findlater Castle cap the headland like a broken crown – the 15th-century stones half covered by grass and gorse bushes – while the North Sea swirls 50 feet below. This is Clan Ogilvy’s long abandoned family seat, but seabirds reign over the place now.
boutique luxury in a killer Lisbon location

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Estella Shardlow
Zakynthos: then and now

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Amy Everett |Dave Seminara |Lawrence Osborne |Estella Shardlow

“You just missed Chris Hoy. He was here leading cycle rides over the summer,” the Peligoni Club’s receptionist informed me breezily as he lugged my suitcase down the gravel path to my villa. Lively Greek music drifted on the (non-existent) breeze, thick air seeming to press down on us despite the late hour. I’d come to Zakynthos seeking some solo restoration — and sure, even self-improvement.
The Peninsula Tokyo

2 months ago | arbuturian.com | Estella Shardlow

Estella Shardlow has a stay fit for an Emperor in the Japanese capital…First impressions count. Pop science says that we take only one tenth of a second to form our judgement of a new person – and it’s difficult to undo this initial read.
Bimini the beautiful

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Dave Seminara |Amy Everett |Lawrence Osborne |Estella Shardlow

Give me a golf cart on an obscure small island and I am ecstatic. That’s how I felt on Christmas Eve rumbling around North Bimini, one of thirty inhabited islands in the Bahamas, with my wife and teenage sons on a balmy day full of benign clouds and serendipitous discoveries. I’m a traveler who is blessed and cursed with hyper-curiosity. Places with too much to see frustrate me because no matter how long I stay, I’m inevitably nagged by a sense that I missed something.
Boutique Hotel Breaks & Luxury Accommodation

2 months ago | mrandmrssmith.com | Estella Shardlow

For all the cultivated airs of Japanese resort town Karuizawa — its boulangeries and coffee roasteries, ceramics studios and art galleries — Mount Asama is a stoical, omnipresent reminder of the area’s wild nature. Its cone is smoking into the clear blue sky when I step off the bullet train from Tokyo on a winter’s morning, while its molten depths heat the mineral springs that have made this part of Nagano Prefecture such a popular weekend retreat for well-to-do Tokyoites.
the rooftop rules at this boutique Lisbon aparthotel

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Estella Shardlow