Isla, Durham
Well, it’s not Yorkshire (soon be a new category, alongside England…Ed) but it’s but a short train ride. Durham – beautiful cathedral city (nine arches) and incredibly well respected university. […]
Well, it’s not Yorkshire (soon be a new category, alongside England…Ed) but it’s but a short train ride. Durham – beautiful cathedral city (nine arches) and incredibly well respected university. […]
A bit of a retrospective on cookery books. So, after exactly twelve months since the virus came to visit us, the joy of “ooh” and “aah” over the way food […]
Bath…and its buildings. They never cease to amaze us. Not perfect, or particularly smart [1 bed flat on the Royal Crescent – £1m?] but acres and acres of them. Wimpey […]
Flushed with the success of a review in the Guardian / Times / friend of a friend of a friend, we find ourselves in York again. There’s no end to […]
The wettest January on record (you heard it first here…Ed) ends with a trip to see Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana at the Grand Opera House in York. We’re definitely […]
York, a long, long time ago back in the middles ages, teaming with people before The Great Plague hit [you mean COVID…Ed] there were very few good restaurants. Yes we […]
First proper day in Palermo. There are a lot of what we would describe as ‘projects’ here. Derelict, rotting property everywhere. There’s a very smart shop on Via Vittorio Emanuele […]
First night in Napoli after a long (9 hour) train journey from Palermo. Yes, they really do put the whole train on the ferry between Sicily and the mainland. Not […]
We’re in Bruton. We should have been here two and a bit years ago but, you know, stuff intervened. TGP to be exact. Since then Bruton has become, you know, […]
We’re getting old. We’ve been to their place in Pimlico and now we’re in Bristol. Edgy? Is that a sign of old age? Zoologie in Bordeaux could be similar, if […]