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Soon, the family started wondering if their experience and their story could help others find health and healing, so they decided to open a juicery. It was Veronica’s idea to call it Vida Pura, a twist on the Costa Rican catchphrase “Pura Vida,” which means pure life. The business is all about promoting healthy lifestyles and living well and that includes everything from the nearly all-vegan menu (honey is an optional ingredient in smoothies) to the drinkware.

Now, how to drink it? Plastic water bottles are incredibly wasteful. We are now buying them at a rate of 1 million a minute, according to Forbes. There are obviously plenty of reusable bottles out there, but none that are quite as recognizable as Bkr (pronounced “beaker”).

Pagan perspectives meet psychological research at this soothing sanctuary in Holland Park. Set up by the psychotherapist and biodynamic psychologist Fiona Arrigo — a former model and socialite in the 1970s — this spa represents something of a seismic shift in a country that’s stereotypically therapy-averse. Devotees of the mind-cleansing “Arrigo Programme” no longer need to journey to her Somerset cottage for a four-day retreat; anyone can now book in for a swift London session hosted in a plush Victorian drawing room. Arrigo wanted to create somewhere to “reflect, learn, commune and find inner calm.” With New Moon Goddess gatherings and Vedic mysticism also on the menu, it’s about as close as you can get to nirvana this side of the West Way. 118B Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UA, aplacetoheal.co.uk.

SHAPIRO: His new book is called "Make Ink: A Forager's Guide To Natural Inkmaking." I expected our adventure to begin someplace wild and pristine - you know, babbling brook, rustling leaves, all that - nope.

A real pleasure is drinking different wines according to the season. I eat seasonally so why wouldn’t I drink seasonally?

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Lady Carole Bamford calls her pristine fleet of Haybarn spas — in Miami, Tokyo, the English Cotswolds and now, London’s South Kensington — “restorative spaces to disconnect.” Certainly, the warm white and oak interiors and light-filled yoga studio create a cocooning ambience of self-care. Treatments employ Bamford’s namesake organic beauty line, including the new aromatherapy-based B Silent products, all of which you can pick up in-store. The real charm, though, is the hands-on healing from Estelle Bingham, whose holistic crystal therapy has the beauty crowd beguiled. 104 Draycott Avenue, London SW3 3AE, bamford.com.

For Beth Terry, the epiphany came when she read an article about how albatross chicks are being killed by discarded plastic. It was time to banish plastic from her life.

“The ink itself is a recorder of history,” he points out. “Museums, for the most part, don’t collect daily stuff. They collect the higher-end stuff, which will last.”

“Consumers are looking for solutions that minimize the impact of drinks packaging on the environment,” says John Tierney, marketing director, Linx. “The opportunity exists for brands to introduce effective solutions for the reuse of bottles. By ensuring the latest coding inks can be removed as part of the process, we are helping to enable the creation of these schemes.”

This option also comes in an 100-count pack, but with an extended burn time of up to six to seven hours.

Cord was one of a dozen journalists and Michelin-star chefs who toured the early-December olive harvest in eastern Portugal, guests of CEPAAL – Centro de Estudos e Promocao do Azeite do Alentejo (in English, the Centre for the Study and Promotion of Alentejo Olive Oil.)