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About Bryn Thomas

After a longer career in travel agency than he would care to admit, Bryn became a freelance review of hotels and guest houses at the suggestion of a former client and publisher. He still travels and writes for pleasure. More Posts

A welcome re-wind

Completely by chance, over the last six months, I have become involved in a semi-commercial business project – if that is the appropriate description for something that in the final analysis and scale of multi-national corporate activities is infinitely modest. As the deadline for its launch has [...]

November 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Theatre review: This House (Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre)

Yesterday I joined an old pal, a man of extensive property interests, for lunch in a hotel restaurant in Chichester. He was holed up there after doing a spot of business in the morning which had seemingly gone particularly well, for as I arrived he announced that we were to be served a bottle of [...]

October 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Olympic issues

Yesterday, purely because of circumstances after 48 hours ‘on the road’ in various places, was a bit of a personal rest day and I spent some of it dipping in and out of the television coverage of the Olympics. Here are some observations based upon what I saw – and heard on the radio – [...]

August 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all that

That’s it for me. Fed up with the EU Referendum result and the political crisis that has inevitably followed, I’m off. I’m sufficiently worldly-wise that I anticipated some, but not all, of the fall-out that occurred after the Brexit vote. It always seemed to me that if you call a referendum [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Here we go, here we go …

And so we’re off! Last night the England football squad completed its warm-up campaign for Euro 2016 by beating Portugal 1-0 in a friendly match at Wembley and now flies out to its base in France before playing its first group game against Russia in Marseille a week tomorrow. I can vaguely [...]

June 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some celebrations are always worth it

With the celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare now flowering into their full majesty, I suspect there are millions of literary and theatrical philistines around the world like me who going to enjoy and benefit enormously from the surfeit of media articles, [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Unintended consequences

My humble nature prevents me crowing about it, but the latest development in what is now called the Panama Papers crisis, coming hard upon the heels of my post on the topic yesterday, does not surprise me in the least – see here – CAMERON OWNS UP I feel justified in assuring those concerned [...]

April 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A taxing matter

Depending upon the way you look at the world – or perhaps actually even irrespective of how you look at it – there are some spectacular ironies and side-issues springing from the current furore over what, for shorthand purposes, I shall herein refer to as the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal. I’m [...]

April 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s a dog’s life, of course

Let’s leave the loonies appearing in the Jeremy Kyle Show who live on Benefits Street, smoke industrial quantities of dope, do most of their communicating with their fellow man or woman on Facebook and seem to specialise in exotic pets like pythons, lizards and terrapins … Most people I know in [...]

March 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Man Who Fell To Earth

I had just got up yesterday, nipped across the road to buy my newspapers and returned to make a cup of tea when – switching the BBC1 morning show on the television – I first caught the news about the passing of rock star David Bowie. For the rest of the day it seemed as if the UK airwaves had [...]

January 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

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