Blog Archive By Year

2026

• The Hanoi & Saigon Opera Houses And Saying Farewell To Dezan Shira In Vietnam
• Selling And Exiting An Asian Consulting Practice

2025

• Malta’s Rolex 2025 Middle Sea Race
• The Barents Sea, Arctic Ocean Safari
• The Gobi Desert – In Search Of The Khulan
• The Indian Himalaya – Dalhousie
• The Indian Himalaya – Naggar  

2024

• The Optimistic Kingfisher
• Malta Yachting & The Rolex Middle Sea Race
• The Gory Village Project
• Ron and Russell Mael’s Appreciation of the Russian Masters Through Their Sparks Discography
• September 2024: Swan – The Guangzhou Acrobatic Troupe Of China
• August 2024: Following Roy Chapman Andrews Into Mongolia’s Gobi Desert

2018

• Springtime in Tallinn
• From Ice To Est
• Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa Stirs Passions At The Mariinsky
• Tischenko’s “Yaroslavna” – The Prince Igor Tale In Ballet
• Cruising The Fontanka, St Petersburg
• May Day At Sukhbaatar Square
• Interview With Enkezul Orgodol

2017

• Monkey Business…
• Fishing The Indian Ocean Reefs For Supper
• How Peter The Great Would Have Had A Martini – With Polugar Bread Vodka
• St.Petersburg’s Legendary Hat Bar – The City Home For Jazz
• Opera Gets Violent – Death By Cannon In The Maid Of Pskov
• Bethrothal In A Monastery – Prokofiev’s Italian Opera Buffa
• A Bonkers Snow Maiden At The Mariinsky
• My Rock Star Double – Tonis Magi
• “Sadko” at the Mariinsky
• Olga Borodina In Borodin’s “Prince Igor”
• The Bronze Horseman
• Kai & Gerda at the Mariinsky

2016

• Dicken’s Christmas Carol Ballet Premiere at the Hermitage
• Preparing & Cooking a Christmas Four Bird Roast
• A Lost Stravinsky Performed Live for the First Time since 1909
• Fishing The Indian Ocean, & Fresh Grilled Mackerel
• Fishing The Med, And Chris Devonshire-Ellis’s Fish Stew
• Looking To Buy A Vineyard in Areni, Armenia
• The 2016 Georgia Wine Harvest
• Excellent Wines from the Monks at Shavnabada Monastery
• The Devonshire-Ellis Malta Marina Penthouse
• Sailing the Margaret Ann Superyacht
• Artworks by Princess Marina Petrovna Romanoff
• Russian Futurism & Malevich On The London Underground
• The Tintagel, Colombo. Colonial & Contemporary
• The Mount – Chris Devonshire-Ellis’s Restaurant Development Project in Sri Lanka
• Peradeniya Royal Botanical Gardens, Kandy
• Udawalawa’s Elephants
• Shoshtakovich’s Lost Opera Orango – Performed at the Mariinsky
• Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night at the Mariinsky
• My Restored 1949 Peugeot 203
• The Rose Garden at Hakgala Botanical Gardens, Nuwara Eliya
• Hakgala Botanical Gardens. Birthplace Of The Gin & Tonic
• Travelling Sri Lanka’s Tea Country By Train
• February Safari At Wilpattu, Sri Lanka
• How To Make A Vodka Martini
• Prokofiev’s “The Giant” Opera at the Mariinsky
• Shchedrin’s “Christmas Tale” Opera at the Mariinsky
• 2016 New Years Concert at the Mikhailovsky Palace

2015

• First Christmas Snow & The Mariinsky Nutcracker
• The Contemplatative Mediterranean Lifestyle
• Devonshire-Ellis Malta Residency Granted
• How To Smoke A Shisha
• Using a Traditional Samovar & Preparing Tea, Russian Style
• In Search of Georgia’s Qvevri Wines
• Austrian Red Wine, Mozart, Humperdinck’s Witches and Sachers Torte
• The Fastest Way Between Europe & Asia: Moscow-Ulaan Baatar. Plus Baikal & Mongolian Infused Vodkas and September Snow
• Chris Devonshire-Ellis’s New Book About China’s One Belt One Silk Road
• Ulaan Baatar’s North Korean Restaurant
• Roast Pike, Fried Pike Liver & Pike Caviar
• Yolyn Am, The Valley of the Lammergeier
• In The Footsteps of Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia
• President Putin’s Chateau Wine Estates
• Stolichnaya’s new Salted Karamel Vodka
• Russian Abrau Durso & Nevy Svet Champagnes
• The Devonshire-Ellis, John Brown & Co; and Imperial Russian Connection
• The Dacha Life near Minsk
• Sabrage – The Best Way To Open Champagne Is With A Sabre
• The Hermitage – Catherine the Great’s Private Theatre
• “The Queen of Spades” at the Mariinsky
• Prokofiev’s “Love For Three Oranges” at the Mariinsky
• Albina Shagimuratova Recital
• Ekaterina Semenchuk Medtner & Rachmaninov Recital
• The Astana Ballet Performing “Zhusan”
• St.Petersburg White Nights
• Sri Lankan Monsoon, Russian White Nights
• Colombo Colonial Gin
• When I Was A Rock Star – Clutch Thorn & The Tiananmen Squares
• The Excellent Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle
• Rescuing A Purple Faced Green Leaf Langur
• Sri Lanka’s Bronzeback Snake vs. Indian Frog
• An Udawalawe Safari
• The Ashburnham Estate, Sri Lanka

2014

• The Devonshire-Ellis’s and the John Brown Company
• Bossner Baron Cigars – An Exclusive Smoke
• Baronial Letters Patent Issued For Chris Devonshire-Ellis
• The Malta Penthouse
• How To Use A Traditional Russian Samovar
• Discovering Herzegovina Flor – Stalin’s Tobacco
• Traditional Mongolian Fragrances & The Importance of Sheep Poo
• Fishing The River Tuul
• Sri Lankan Monsoon, Mongolia Summer
• From Colombo To St. Andrews, By Locomotive
• Penthouse Marina Apartment In Malta
• The Gentleman Tropical Fruit Gardener
• Whale Breaching At Mirisa
• Double Trouble, Boxer Style

2013

• A Sri Lankan Retreat
• Preparing & Cooking Wolf Meat
• Port Credit Yacht Club
• Essential Oils and Wadi Bashing in Dubai
• Mongolia’s Cinereous Vulture & Winter Horse Trekking

2012

• Black Tie and Gergiev For War Reminisces In Toronto
• Seven Ballets, & The Elixir of Love
• Mongolian Horse Meat Steak Tartar, And Choosing Camel Cuts.
• White Baltic Nights
• Of Sri Lankan Seaplanes, Sperm Whales, and Kathiawari Horses. Plus Tom Stoppard & Richard Dawkins
• Christmas At Coigach

2011

• It’s Truffle Season 2011!
• Shanghai Jazz at the 2011 Capital Club Ball
• Tchaikovsky At Beijing’s Egg
• An Achiltibuie Summer – Coigach Explored
• A Mongolian Retreat
• The Choijid Tara – A Mongolian Ballet Masterpiece
• Assigned Barony of Coigach
• The Return Of Les Ballets Russe
• Gergiev Conducting Turandot at La Scala
• Celebrating Nowruz, the Kazak First Day Of Spring
• Gergiev At The Suntory, Tokyo
• The RAF Club, London
• The Kew Gardens Chinese Pagoda
• Cheers To Hemingway!
• Porridge With A Silver Spoon

2010

• St. Petersburg Philharmonic Do The Business In Hong Kong
• The Hunt For A Sri Lankan Retreat
• On Interviews With Chinese Ministers & Hong Kong Trademark Agents
• Hanoi, Saigon & Nha Trang
• The Big Five – Oh
• Colombo Swimming Club & Orange Bitters
• Indian Snake Charmers
• Bombay Evenings – A Walk Around Apollo Bunder
• A Mongolian Siberian Winter
• Cuir De Russe – Chanel’s Russian Fragrance

2009

• Christmas in New York
• Les Ballets Russe
• Aches, Bruises & Eighth
• High Gusts, Broken Masts, But Fifth Position Maintained
• China Briefing Off To Day Three Starts Like A Rocket
• Kings Cup Day Two: Good, But Frustrating
• China Briefing Off To Good Start
• Kings Cup 2009 – Sea Trials Day One
• Kings Cup Phuket Awaits
• The Wonderful Omega Speedmaster
• Castrati, Anyone ?
• The Algonquin, New York. The Only Hotel With A Resident Cat
• Miami – Mimo, Royal Terns & Black Beans
• On St. Petersburg
• On Moscow
• Tchaikovsky, Mariinsky, Gergiev & Netrebko’s Iolanthe – A Class Act
• Demons & Angels
• Salome’s Seductive Dance of Death
• China’s National Ballet A Joy To Watch
• The Purifying Ganges
• Russia’s Lost Italian Operas
• China Briefing’s Tenth Birthday – Beijing
• Qualified Ocean Skipper & Commodore
• Andaman Sunrises
• The Island Life
• Indian Ocean Monsoon Hits The Andaman
• Three Days, Phuket – Ko Yao Yai
• Fast Track To Ocean Skipper in Thailand
• Is This The Best Bar In The World?
• Kenya’s 2009 Rhino Charge
• Chinese Food In India – History In A Menu
• Bulle de Blanquette – France’s Oldest Sparkling Wine
• Beijing Magnolias
• On Indian Gems & Jewelry
• The Bombay Gin Palace
• Mumbai Ahead Of Shanghai In Dynamism
• Royal Bengal Tigers On Increase As Preservation Slowly Impacts Population
• April 2009 – Trekking The Mongolian Gobi Desert
• March 2009 – Sri Lanka, & Indian Ocean Voyages Approach
• February 2009 – An Early Indian Spring
• January 2009 – A Russian Winter