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A la la Colthard/ the good, the bad and the pretty

I enjoyed the first half of our trip in Provence. Our organisers were helpful and concerned hosts. Such trips do depend on the group and ours got on well, did not complain and Brexit discussion was avoided. I agree that a healthy option has become an imposition which requires little culinary [...]

September 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sanary

For most of the group this was their final day and Ralph and Joanne were interested in our feedback. It was their first such weekend. Generally the feedback was positive. Personally I would have foregone the afternoon wine estate trip and preferred one restaurant visit . However it was billed as a [...]

September 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

Third and final day

Today is the last day of the wine weekend but I’m staying on for a few days at Sanary-Sur-Mer on the coastline between Marseilles and Toulon. We had a leisurely breakfast which took up most of the morning. After that we went to our first tasting at Domaine Vallee des Glauges in the Alpilles [...]

September 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Second day

This proved to be a full-on day of three wine tastings, a visit to Lourmarin, and a more relaxed dinner back at base camp. The Luberon, the area we visited, is technically not in Provence but in Vaucluse, a different department across the Durance Riveer. Loumarin is one of those picture-postcard [...]

September 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

First day

After my unfortunate experience when travelling to Verona in July, when some idiot picked up my iPad in security and the operatives there were less than efficient in recovering same, I was more than apprehensive of Gatwick. This time my iPad was housed in a light brown bag which no one could [...]

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Wines of Provence

Provence is chiefly know for its Roses but in fact produces fine whites and reds especially in the Southern Rhône (Chateauneuf du Pape, Gigondas spring to mind). The problem is the Mistral high wind. My favorite rose The Rosalie is grown at 600m above the worst of the effects of the Mistral and [...]

September 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Provence

Tomorrow amongst much relief from the paralysis that is the UK at the moment I am leading a Rusters Tour to Provence. It’s a wine and food based weekend and so I will not tread on fellow travellers Algy or Daffers’ toes. I know Provence well and would liken it to Sussex as it has a [...]

September 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

A report from the outer edge of fitness

I occasionally blog upon the travails of my fitness campaign – a bit of a misnomer in recent times after the gym I frequented burned to the ground about six months ago – and so those uninterested in the minutae of an individual’s life can now perhaps move on to more entertaining subjects [...]

September 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

What really happened? No, me neither …

Today I return to the sometimes intriguing and puzzling relationship between reality and subjective perception, a subject that we on the Rust occasionally touch upon with a hint of mischievousness and humour. As I commence this piece I am listening to a Dotun Adebayo-hosted edition of Radio Five [...]

September 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

A new experience

Yesterday I did something I have never done before though thousands of people have. I went to a DIY store. I always like the joke observation of comedian Jackie Mason: “A Jew can put together 7 companies profitably but cannot assemble a hoover. “ The purpose of the trip was to purchase some [...]

September 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

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