Oak, Bath
During two years of The Great Pandemic we’ve had just five days away. Two at Inver in July 2020, and three at the Drunken Duck in September 2021 when it […]
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Osip, Bruton
We stayed At the chapel, a converted guess-what right in the middle of Bruton. Open all day [but not in the evening] for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, glass of […]
Tommy Banks Takeaway…
So, after two years of scrupulous self protection (the full works – quarantining the post, masks, food deliveries, isolating from practically everyone) we’ve finally caught Covid. Now that we’re triple […]
The Olive Tree, Bath
Bath. It really is splendid. The miles of elegant stone terraces are for Bath what Persimmon is doing everywhere else. Well, that’s a touch unkind; Bath saw a great expansion […]
The Angel at Hetton, North Yorkshire
Well, about a hundred years ago, when we were but young architects, we were designing spec housing. A meeting with a commercial director of Costain homes brought home the grizzly […]
Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
Well we guess the Black Swan holds a number of records – Trip Advisor ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ and now No 4 in the same league table. Remarkable. BTW […]
Paradise with FRJ, Killinghall, North Yorkshire
So, cataclysmic change. You’ll find an entry (eulogy) in this blog for the Yorke Arms at Ramsgill, in Nidderdale. Place of worship, scene of many, many celebratory meals over many […]
Murano, London
It’s been a bit of an Italian summer – not the temperatures up in Yorkshire – but the language training in the Veneto and Torcello. Compared with last summer – […]
Thackeray’s Restaurant, Tunbridge Wells
A funny sort of a day. It’s Day 2 of the new PM, that dastardly figure Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, generally rumoured to be an habitual liar and someone […]
Mraz und Sohn, Vienna
So, Vienna. End of a very memorable and virtuous cycle tour along the Danube, courtesy of Headwater Holidays. You ride down stream – so downhill – mostly along towpaths which […]
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