While in Boston, Girlahead was able to have a look at arts and design generally, as well as the historical beauties of those old buildings, and the stunning modern creation of elephants walking in step, one behind the other, all 100 of them. There was also a chance to look at design.

The lovely boss of historic Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston, Tabish Siddiquie, was out of town. But never mind, Girlahead was looked after splendidly, magnificently

Wynn Las Vegas has wonderful people - take EVP Operations Kris Kaminisky, above, a Lithuanian Kansas boy who’s finally, after years checking out Asia, found his professional home, where everything works…

Wynn's wonderful for workout and well-being. First workout, the gym on the first floor, American style, of the resort. It has enormous areas, but not big enough when it comes to weights. This is typically the case in U.S. right now. Far too many people want weights for the number of weights.

Back to Italy? No, return as every August to the great US of A. Virtuoso Travel Week – VTW – once again descended on Las Vegas, this year 8-14 August.

It's always a hard task to sum up Virtuoso Travel Week, VTW, in a few words. One poignant takeaway was hearing the President of Ted Turner Reserves recounting, one-to-one, how in the last weeks of his life that great man had spent every day being driven round some of his 1.1 million acres in New Mexico, passionately connecting with nature.

This year, Girlahead got into Vegas a day early, intentionally, for the 700-strong AI summit, put together by Gilad Berenstein, who cautioned we're entering the era of small and medium-sized business adaptation of AI.

Well, Harrods is being kicked down into second place when it comes to tourist shopping for food. Winner is Fortnum & Mason, still at 181 Piccadilly see above. The Biscuitorium was so packed you couldn’t move. Americans, Arabs and Japanese were piling turquoise-wrapped packs of cookies and preserves as if they were going to have to bunker.

Thierry Despont is main ‘modern’ designer of Raffles London at The OWO and Girlahead loves so many of the details. Corridors on the third floor, for instance, have an amazingly striking scarlet and dull grey and cream carpeting.