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FAR EAST DELIGHTS IN THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN

19/09/2016 By
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“Vietnam” is a word that excites very different emotions in people of different ages. For the young and adventurous it can mean a back-packing holiday with a difference. For the well-off it may mean comfortable hotels and touring a large country enjoying lush scenery and varied human activity; from a train window on the “Reunification […]

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Roll up! Roll up! For a slice of RETRO

07/12/2015 By
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  Ably assisted by my daughter Susanna, who is a wiz with Internet publishing and my son Robert who is highly expert with websites, I have launched my first non-food book, a bit of autobiography in fact. It takes the reader back quite a few years – more than 75 – and tells what it […]

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VILLAGE VOICE REMEMBERED

08/11/2015 By
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  An Email from a dear friend of our years in a hill village of Cyprus, talking of a well loved taverna keeper, the venerable mukhtar of many years’ standing and various other local personalities, brought back a flood of memories, some of them demonstrating the speed of change in the island in recent years. […]

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BUKRA FI MISH MISH

01/06/2015 By
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Memories flooded back as I turned the pages of this food and family orientated book. It is many years since I visited Damascus, and indicative of this is that back then, in the 1960s, I, an Englishman, drove by myself to and through the city several times on return trips from Beirut to Amman, in […]

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Travellers’ Tales – hopefully with a Meal included

04/02/2015 By
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           Travelling with a camera wasn’t always a case of slipping it into your hand luggage Whenever I go to a new place, in my own country or abroad, my hopes are: firstly, good food; secondly, good wine; thirdly, a comfortable bed. Ideally a conjunction of all three. I have slept in quite a […]

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ON THE RIGHT LINES – Living, steaming, moving history…

15/10/2014 By
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Earlier this month Mary and I spent a happy week touring around Yorkshire, based on the pleasant spa town of Harrogate.   We were wallowing in nostalgia of a special kind: for old fashioned trains pulled by huffing and chuffing steam engines more than 60 years old. We were part of a group of about 40 […]

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