One of the highlights (quite literally) of our recent trip to New York was our pre-dinner Saturday evening stroll along the High Line, the former railway line which has been transformed in to a stunning above-street garden.

Fab views of the city and the river and generating a real buzz in this already great part of town.

I've spent the last week or so in Barcelona on a mixture of business and pleasure. Among many highlights of the long weekend when AM joined me, was the purchase of a new camera and all the associated fun of getting it to work without reading the instructions.

Now cameras, like all technology, have moved forward dramatically since we bought our last one, but the Sony Cybershot we ended up buying, has this great "smile detector" function where the shutter only releases when the subject is smiling. Very clever. There is even an adjustable smile-sensitivity index which determines just how much the subject has to grin in order to activate the shot. 

So maybe I haven't quite got it to work properly yet!