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MAY TRAVEL FEATURE

23/05/2016 By
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  From my travel files ……. A Tour of IRAN One morning in the early 1970s a slightly scruffy letter arrived in my public relations company in London. It was clearly a duplicated one, sent to a number of companies like ours – from the tourism attaché of the Iranian Embassy. The brief message enquired […]

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A BIT OF OLD ENGLAND

16/05/2016 By
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Anyone who watches British television will know of the many programmes devoted to “Baking” – of pies, pastries, buns, caked and bread. Where flour, water and fat are often the basis for inexpensive and filling dishes. In times past, working people, especially in the rural areas, seldom had enough money to eat meat (or fish) […]

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THOSE WERE THE DAYS – or were they?

11/05/2016 By
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This month: time was when we fortified ourselves with delicious and ridiculously inexpensive local sherries — and some step-by-step delights for your May table. The Heyday of Cyprus Sherry Memory often romanticises events of the past. As an instance I remember the production of a vast range of spirits and liqueurs by Cyprus companies with […]

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MEATING PLACE

05/05/2016 By
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Gather round, folks. Roll up. I have a clutch of meaty treats for you this week. Very international in origin, too. In the Middle East (and I include Cyprus in that), grazing for sheep, goats and cows is sparse, to say the least. In consequence, much of the meat can be tough (I except lamb […]

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“PARIS IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA”

27/04/2016 By
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The next best thing to travelling, they say, is reading about it. As you get older this becomes truer. I always have at least one book on the go and for me this is my “Paris Season”. It was brought about by my finding a journal I wrote in 1959 describing my first visit to […]

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APRIL ISSUE

04/04/2016 By
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HOW (NOT) TO MAKE FRIENDS I remember the first time I smelt garlic. It was in Paris. Young and impressionable, I had gone with a friend by car to stay in a grubby but inexpensive hotel near the Sorbonne University. We decided to go to Montmartre that evening by Metro. As we walked down the […]

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