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No frills flying

In November 2015 I went to Vienna and wanted to go by British Airways. My p/a Polly dismissed this out of hand as a waste of money and airspace. She recommended Easyjet and since then I have used that air carrier. Indeed I was so impressed by their punctuality and price I bought some shares which [...]

April 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Summing up

Today I’m the last to leave of the National Rust party. It’s gone well. I prefer the apartment with its stunning views over the Baie des Anges and greater space to last year’s more cramped one. With the help of Alice Mansfield we have made cultivating excursions to the museums of [...]

April 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

A dove called Pierre

The late sun was hot and its setting over the Baie des Anges a picture of vivid yellows, blues and pinks, the sea a palette of royal and light blue and we enjoyed a glass of champagne to celebrate the promotion of Brighton and victory of Fulham. An idyll except we became increasingly concerned by [...]

April 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

2 gardens and an aquarium

Yesterday I organised a full day of activities for Jamie and his mother. Jamie is a keen marine biologist and our first port of call was the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco which houses an aquarium. Over the years I have visited a number of aquariums without Jamie’s enthusiasm for the marine [...]

April 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

United we sit

Yesterday I travelled back to Nice on EasyJet with my godson and his mother. As young children often are, my 8 year old godson Jamie can be very entertaining without intending. So as he mounted the stairway to the plane he remarked “I am feeling excited but a little nervous too. When I go to [...]

April 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nice/a contrarian view

Despite the title of this post I am enjoying this stay, as much as any of the Rusters appreciate Nice, but do feel some more negative points can be fairly made. It’s already been pointed out that there are plaques throughout the city commemorating the Free French resistance and a war memorial [...]

April 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Me and Marc Chagall

It’s funny how one’s tastes in anything can change over one’s life. I never could enjoy or appreciate the art of Marc Chagall as its biblical representation did not reach me. My parents hung a reproduction in their bathroom of his home town, where my grandfather too was born, [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Music matters

I used to be an avid follower of pop music till the 1980s but now have moved to classical music. It took a bit of time to discover in the broad spectrum of classical music what I particularly enjoyed. That turned out to be compositions based on folklore like Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances or [...]

February 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

60th birthday at an iconic venue

Last night I attended the 60th birthday of an old friend held at the Clissold Arms Fortis Green, East Finchley. Not just another local. Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks lived opposite and the first and last musical sessions of the Kinks in 1960 an 1996 were played there. The room where we ate our [...]

February 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Broadening the mind?

The cliche goes that travel broadens the mind. I have found it does but in surprising ways. One of the consequences of my 6 week trip to the Far East was my perception of my own country. I was educated to the belief that the British Empire was a civilising force amongst primitive natives, that it [...]

February 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

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