Boat reflections, Corfu, Greece – September 2011
Click here for a full portionMy Corfu love affair… and whole seabass on the barbecue
When I was at school, one of my favourite books that I read over and over was Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals. I remember being fascinated by his stories of childhood, a childhood so completely different to mine as to be unimagineable. Bizarrely, the thing that stuck with me most is that […]
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Paris reflections – August 2011
Click here for a full portionSummer pudding
Summer. Such an evocative word; a word about which countless poems and songs have been written. Say it to yourself a few times – what associations does it bring up? To me, summer will always mean the summers of my childhood. Days when you would awake to the sound of cicadas and could smell […]
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Shine a little light – The Pantheon, Rome July 2011
Click here for a full portionThe Malmaison Brasserie
If somebody invited you to dinner at “the bad house”, would you: a) assume that the description referred to the food and make sure you eat at home before you go; b) assume that it was some sort of dance club and pack your earplugs; or c) assume you were going to a strip […]
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