I always find long-distance air travel to be a totally surreal experience. For a start, you spend 12 hours in a metal tube kept aloft by sheer force of good engineering, at a cosy temperature of 22C while the air on the other side of the wondow is about -34C. And then there is the experience of boarding […]
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Orange African daisy
Click here for a full portionThe Rivington Grill, Greenwich [CLOSED]
If you read in the newspapers that somebody arranged to meet up in person with some people that she’d met over the internet, and that a massacre ensued… you wouldn’t be particularly surprised in this day and age, would you? I wouldn’t be. And I’d have to say that this is pretty much what happened […]
Click here for a full portionCrispy duck breasts with a wild cherry balsamic reduction
I expected a lot of things when I came to live in England. I expected the weather to be depressing – tick. I expected to be a little homesick – tick. I expected to see lots of shows and concerts – tick. I expected to develop unnatural cravings for biltong, Peppermint Crisp and NikNaks – […]
Click here for a full portionTintswalo Atlantic Lodge, Cape Town
This is the conversation that transpired as I was dashing out of the front door to meet some friends on a recent trip to Cape Town: NICK: “Remember – you have to be back at four thirty!” JEANNE: “But I thought we were only going to meet G for sundowners, and you know the sun doesn’t […]
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The world turned upside down – Weimar, July 2010
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