It is a rare taste of a celebrity chef's homelife. The estate agent's preamble says the cottage "doesn't boast a cheffy' kitchen, but it does have an Aga - best friend to all superior cooks".

In the early 1900s, the stately Southern Colonial in the prestigious King's Bluffs section of Weehawken stood proud, before years of neglect turned it into a shadow of its former grandeur.

This is the way to see London as few have seen it before (except a handful of Germans in uniform). Dangling from the underbelly of a helium-filled behemoth more than 200ft long, you cruise over the capital.

I have a perverse interest in getting builders in to demolish parts of the house. I was always into Lego and Airfix as a child, and maybe there's an element of that in it: pleasure in a fascinating process. I had a lot done when I bought the place. The n

Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming! Despite its urban image, the Bronx has 7,000 acres of park land, about 25 percent of its total area. In addition to Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo, the borough's green spaces include the New York Botanical G