Antonia Windsor

“That was so scary! I didn’t know where to look!” My nine-year-old daughter was fizzing with excitement as she tried to re-establish her land legs after being catapulted 20 metres in the air. “Let’s go again!”...

Itching to fasten your seat belt for take-off and disembark to the leisurely lunches, balmy beach days and plush hotel linens of a proper normal holiday? You needn’t bide your time ’til May: on Monday the Bailiwick of Jersey reopens to UK tourists, and with the island pretty much back to business as usual (and requiring visitors from UK Green Zones to quarantine for a mere 12 hours), you could be sipping sauvignon blanc inside a chic restaurant (that’s right, inside), checking in to a seaside...

The island hopes for a bumper summer as Britons seek a taste of the Continent without the uncertainties of international travel

Investors have had a rough ride over the past year due to uncertainty caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, but there’s one market that has been quietly bucking the trend – that of rare books and manuscripts.
Words by Antonia Windsor
While many investors have seen their portfolios shrink in the past 12 months as global uncertainty rocked the stock exchange, there is one market that has been quietly booming.
The buying and selling of rare books and manuscripts seems to operate in its own sociall...

Antonia Windsor
Wed 14 Apr 2021 06.23 EDT
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Spring is here bringing warmer weather, longer days and that instinct to refresh our homes. And what better place to start than the bedroom. Now that the night-time temperatures have picked themselves up off the floor, you may find the cosy fleece bedding that has kept you snug all winter is beginning to interrupt your sleep.
We all know what it feels like to throw off the duvet in frustration and kic...

Antonia Windsor
Wed 14 Apr 2021 06.21 EDT
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Have we ever been so excited about spring? As we all emerge from a damp, wet lockdown into a bright, sunny, sociable fresh start, most of us are turning our attention to our gardens and thinking about enjoying being outside.
The interiors of our homes are probably just the way we want them, whether that’s calm and muted, vibrant and striking or even somewhat eclectic. The challenge now is to extend th...

The automated wine-tasting trend that’s making connoisseurs of London drinkers.
Walk into Vagabond wine bar in Victoria on a busy Friday night and you won’t see a queue at the bar, despite the popularity of this drinking den just meters from Victoria station.
The reason for the relative calm is not thanks to table service, but the availability of 140 wines by the glass from self-service vending machines throughout the bar.
Freddie Cobb, one of the two wine buyers for the urban winery said the...

These are unusual times, and the state of affairs can change quickly. Please check the latest travel guidance before making your journey. Note that our writer visited pre-pandemic.
Jersey is the gem of the Channel. The most southerly of the British Isles, it boasts the most hours of sunshine of anywhere in Great Britain. It also provides plenty of varying landscapes in which to enjoy those golden rays: wooded valleys, flower-strewn cliff paths, rocky coves and wide sandy beaches. Hire a bicyc...

Antonia Windsor
Thu 12 Nov 2020 09.50 EST Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 09.55 EST
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We’ve all seen pictures and footage of children playing in the most unlikely situations. Using an old rope to skip on the dusty ground of a refugee camp, racing tyres at the base of a rubbish dump or floating paper boats in monsoon flood water. Children play across cultures and classes. They play despite wars, disasters and pandemics. They play because it is ...

Antonia Windsor

Thu 12 Nov 2020 09.52 EST Last modified on Thu 12 Nov 2020 09.54 EST

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Whether it’s a toddler making a trail of handprints across a piece of paper, or a seven-year-old repurposing a cardboard tube to make a marble run, play empowers children to become creative. When children create, they experience the joy of interacting with the world and of changing it and being changed by it.

“Born into an age of rapid innovation, our childre...

The best beaches in Jersey and Guernsey

Jersey is the gem of the Channel. The most southerly of the British Isles, it boasts the most hours of sunshine of anywhere in Great Britain. It also provides plenty of varying landscapes in which to enjoy those golden rays: wooded valleys, flower-strewn cliff paths, rocky coves and wide sandy beaches. Hire a bicycle and you can enjoy a network of “green lanes” where the speed limit is just 15mph. Or feel the sea in your hair on a boat tour, in a kayak or on a paddle board. Or simply don your...

'It meant five years of being cooped up with no freedom to express yourself'
Seventy-five years ago, on May 9, the population of the Channel Islands came to the end of a five-year lockdown when the British Navy arrived to free them from the Nazi occupying forces a day after Germany’s formal surrender at the end of the Second World War. A major party had been planned for this year, but it will of course have to happen online, as the islanders face a lockdown of a different kind.
Nobody saw the...