Locanda Santi Apostoli, Venezia
At this time of year we’re looking forward to sunshine and longer days, light evenings and warmth. We have several friends who manage to escape to warmer places in the […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Gribdale and Captain Cook’s Monument, North Yorkshire
No, there wasn’t any snow on Christmas Day, but the day was fine and dry and, although the promised sunshine was more than a little weak, it was a good […]
Yorebridge House, North Yorkshire
Finding good places in the Yorkshire Dales isn’t all that difficult [except during the few glorious days of the TDF 2014] so when a new place opens it faces some […]
Old Cataract Hotel, Aswan
There are three famous hotels on the Egypt “Grand Tour”. Mena House at Giza, The Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor and the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan. All with great […]
Wit’s End Café, Sandsend, North Yorkshire
“The best café in North Yorkshire” So says the website and who are we to argue [mind you, there’s Bettys…] but Sandsend is a pretty good setting. The North Yorkshire […]
Quaglino’s, London
We grew up with Habitat, Terrance Conran’s innovative design shops, started in 1964 in Chelsea. By the early 1970s they’d reached Manchester and our home and office looked like a […]
The Ivy, London
We were reading a review of The Colony Grill Room by Giles Coren in the Times today, the new hotel restaurant at the Beaumont Hotel. This is the latest venture of Jeremy […]
Sunshine Bakery, C.A, [Leeds]
That’s a nice touch – “Sunshine Bakery CA” – makes you think of, well, California of course. It really means Chapel Allerton, a nice trendy, young professional type of place […]
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