Sorry for not being in touch lately – been hanging out and about in Nice. Here’s my photo to prove it! After a long, hot and frustrating trudge west along the Promenade des Anglais checking out various beachside establishments we descended on the Blue Beach Bar & Restaurant and were more than pleasantly surprised by [...]
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postcard from Nice
Posted in Summer, fast food, pubs & bars, wine, tagged food, Nice, restaurants, Summer, wine on June 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
a curate’s egg, lightly poached
Posted in Autumn/Fall, Winter, books, food politics, pubs & bars, restaurants, shopping, tagged cookbooks, Richard Corrigan on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“What’s wrong with just being kind and hospitable and generous…”?
Lancaster’s Sun shines through the gale
Posted in Autumn/Fall, pubs & bars, tagged hotel, Lancaster, pubs & bars on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As part of my position I am required to attend top-secret conferences scattered around the countryside: this one in Lancaster, which is about as far as you can go without running into the Lake District. The journey should have taken five hours but it took nine, of which four were spent in such mind-numbingly boring [...]
the view from a hill
Posted in Autumn/Fall, pubs & bars, tagged pubs, tunbridge wells, wine on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sunday afternoon in Tunbridge Wells – where to go for a lunchtime drink that’s both within walking distance of the town centre, yet comfortably removed from its urban hum and traffic drum? Btw, that’s a stroll in nice shoes, not a heavy-booted hike up hill and down dale. Dim memories of a bar set into a [...]
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