One session of needle-free skin tightening in Notting Hill, a lymphatic massage I wasn’t expecting, and a therapist who planned the whole treatment around my event the next day.

This is our edit of the ski hotels worth the flight, the transfer and the inevitable bruised ego on the red run. Pour yourself a mulled wine and settle in.

Renoir and Love brings 45 works and the UK debut of Bal au Moulin de la Galette to the National Gallery, and advance sales have already broken the Gallery’s record.

In central London, a founder-led longevity clinic is firming the jaw, neck and décolletage with quantum molecular resonance, and the full result is built over a course of six.

From garden hideaways in Brera to palazzi a heel’s click from the Quadrilatero, these are the rooms worth fighting for.

London’s relationship with Middle Eastern cuisine has moved well beyond the era of takeaway shawarma and supermarket hummus. Today, the city’s finest dining rooms are drawing on the Levant, Persia, the Gulf and North Africa with real scholarship, sourcing rare spices, mastering live-fire technique and pairing it all with a level of design and service that would not look out of place in Beirut, Tehran or Marrakech itself.