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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

Living up to the image

Over time I have come to form the view that – when it comes to social addictions, if devotion to the likes of of food, cigarettes and alcohol can be described as such – there are basically two types of human personalities, viz. those who possess ‘addictive’ genes [i.e. are susceptible to [...]

February 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

To London and back

Staying in the country with my parents for the duration of the festive season, yesterday I was nevertheless obliged by prior arrangement to journey to London for a meeting which had been set up some time ago, before I knew where I would be spending Christmas (if you see what I mean). The meeting [...]

December 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s all relative, mate

Before I begin my post today, it is ‘cards on the table’ time. I’m an atheist, largely because – in terms of how I live my life – I feel most comfortable presuming that God does not exist and that religion is a man-made means of control-comforting the masses. If I’ve got that [...]

December 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

The withdrawal method

When it comes to sport, the dealings of FIFA and IOC over the past twenty five years leave them both vulnerable to accusations of corruption. I would not be the first to suggest this as a strategy, but it does seem to me that the best way forward for the UK sporting authorities concerned would now [...]

November 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sign o’ the times

My father, who turned 89 last week, set off yesterday to have lunch in central London with an old colleague, a peer of the realm, and his daughter. The occasion had been proposed by the daughter, who had bumped into my father outside the Gate cinema at Notting Hill Gate – introduced herself [...]

October 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again

These past three days I have been developing my first ‘bug’ of the winter. I cannot remember whether the beginning of October is about par for me, or whether it’s a bit earlier than usual this year. It all began on Tuesday, when I detected the first stirring of a tickle in my throat which [...]

October 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Changing times

This new tax disc business on motor vehicles is a bit of a rum thing, don’t you think? I renewed mine about a month ago, so I’m presuming that I can keep it exhibited on my car window until eleven months from now – but is that right? Am I going to be getting a tap on the shoulder from the [...]

October 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Declining frequency

The newspapers openly refer to late summer as ‘the silly season’ – a period when, because half the world seems to be on holiday and there’s very little going on in the world, weird stories involving skateboarding ducks, UFOs and/or the state of Jordan’s (sorry, Katie Price’s) [...]

September 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Marylebone Hotel

This hotel was formerly the Clifton Ford, a box-like sixties type of building in Welbeck Street. The Doyle Group, which owned and sold out Jury’s, acquired the hotel and its success mirrors that of the quarter it occupies, Marylebone Village. It is an excellent base to explore with the High [...]

August 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

It happens to us all

An inevitable accompaniment of living to a ripe old age is the gradual loss of one’s friends and family. A couple of years ago, my father attended the funeral of an old Fleet Air Arm chum. Chatting with the widow outside the church afterwards, when she asked him “You are coming to the drinks [...]

August 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

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