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Another flight, another city

After three nights in Melbourne, yesterday we flew on to Perth in Western Australia, which I last visited immediately after leaving school forty-four years ago. To give some idea of the scale of these things, WA is three hours behind Melbourne in terms of time zones and could not be described as [...]

November 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

A fond farewell

Our whistle-stop tour of the Southern Hemisphere continues and my father and I have now developed a working pattern. At night we retire to our rooms at about 9.00pm, having agreed to meet in the foyer beside the breakfast area at 7.30am the next morning. The next morning at 6.50am he calls me to [...]

November 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another hop completed

After another Singapore Airlines flight, this of six or seven hours’ duration – I cannot remember which because, with the three (or is it four?) hours difference between Singapore and Victoria, it’s very easy to get in a muddle – we arrived at Melbourne and made out way to [...]

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The San Martino Trust

One of the more neglected theatres of war in the Second World War was the Italian campaign of 1943. Italy surrendered in September 1943 but he Nazis fought on in their place relentlessly. There were some 60,000 allied soldiers in Prisoner of War camps. Their Italian guards fled. Rather surprisingly [...]

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Roger, over and out …

I guess it was inevitable. After two full days in Singapore – the first of which we spent being driven around on personal guided tours and then having a slap-up meal at a famous private club … and the second of which we spent visiting the Bay South version of the epic Gardens by the Bay [...]

November 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming back to earth

I am a chastened gentleman. There is nothing quite like a well-appointed bathroom facility in a double room hotel suite in a foreign land to bring a chap crashing back to earth. Before making my way to my computer to compose this post report this morning I had occasion to visit said facility in [...]

November 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Cruising with Scarlet at 45,000 feet

Having departed on Monday from Heathrow for a ten-day tour of Singapore and Australia acting as wingman for my aged father, he and I duly reached our first port of call yesterday after a flight of thirteen hours and have spent our time since resting and acclimatizing ourselves. It is apparently the [...]

November 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another factor to consider?

Probably the biggest sporting shock over the weekend was the late withdrawal of tennis legend Roger Federer, allegedly due to injury, from his final against Novak Djokovic in the ATP World Tour final at the 02 Arena. There are several issues arising. Firstly, Federer may well be genuinely [...]

November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Missing the point

Over the weekend we had a visit from my brother’s family. Upon their arrival drinks were served and we sat out on the terrace in the surprisingly warmish November sunshine to catch up with each other’s news. After the more voluble had given us their potted summaries, I turned to my younger [...]

November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Time for some hard thinking

  Perhaps inevitably at this time of year, I spent the bulk of yesterday afternoon watching England v South Africa at Twickenham on BT Sports and then Scotland v New Zealand on the BBC with a sizeable family grouping, having been detailed – as the resident female cook – the prior task of [...]

November 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

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