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.

The idea of four nights at sea evokes relaxation, time stretching to infinity. Having done two such short cruises in the space of as many weeks, Girlahead can testify that it is jolly hard work. It's impossible to do justice to destinations, activities on board, facilities on board, food and beverage opportunities, and the networking, including meeting new people, that is essential on such a work cruise.

Maybe is the word of the moment. Maybe EXPLORA III is a ship of the future. Maybe it's an ocean state of mind. Maybe it's just a completely different way of learning more about the world and yourself. EXPLORA III was launched 10 days ago, and her first customer or guest was two-time Wimbledon champion, Jannik Sinner, cleverly signed before his 2025 win as Ambassador for this the luxury beauty of the mighty and caring MSC family company.