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A la Colthard/ Chateau Eza

My readers will know that one of my mantras is not to trust a restaurant that boasts of its panoramic views. I must say though that Chateau Eza in Eze village is an honourable exception. This was once the house of a Swedish Prince but is now a boutique hotel restaurant. It has sweeping views over [...]

April 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

It will not have escaped sport-loving Rusters that the Easter weekend was loaded to the gills with action across the board – I shall just cite in evidence the fact that the business ends of football’s European Champions and Europa Leagues are in full sway and the English Premiership and [...]

April 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Waitrose v locals

Waitrose has come to represent more than just a premium food store but symbolic of the liberal metro intelligentsia. In the Rust and beyond a Waitrose shopper means you are a Remainer, elitist, indelibly middle class. The most recent remain demo was labelled as a Waitrose one in the media. There [...]

April 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Where we are now

And so it has come to this … Never mind the entire from-start-to-finish Brexit horlicks; The original 2016 (“once in a generation”) EU Referendum, the result of which the Government promised in advance to implement; The allegations that the Leave campaign, or part of it, breached Electoral [...]

April 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

EDITORIAL – The exciting times we live in

It is incontestable that the average punter on the proverbial Clapham omnibus could be forgiven for thinking that the world has lost both its marbles and bearings and has taken a one-way ticket to Hell in a handcart. These days you can go to bed day-dreaming up the whackiest and most unlikely [...]

April 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Aviation archive

Travelling back from Nice yesterday on easyJet, I reflected on how much air travel has changed in my lifetime. When I first travelled by plane in the sixties, a national carrier like British Airways was the symbol of the nation and would not descend so low as to charter or budget travel. Buccaneers [...]

April 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Those “I was there” moments (sort of)

One of the oddities of life are those occasions when one has a brush, however slight or inconsequential, with an event of great historical importance e.g. whilst watching television. Delving back into the mists of time as I begin typing I can think of two representative examples my personal past [...]

April 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with it – and life

There is little more calculated to slap you in the face with reminders of your age and mortality than family gatherings – and I mean that in both a good and a bad way. Last weekend I attended the wedding of a niece – inevitably a joyous and chaotic occasion as these always are – at which, at [...]

April 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ La Colombe d’Or

Understated is not an adjective I’ve often used to describe a top notch restaurant/hotel but entirely appropriate for the Colombe D’Or in St Paul de Vence in the foothills above Nice. We gathered there for a lunch hosted by Bob Tickler. Ideally we would have liked to have been in the terrace [...]

April 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

Heralding the real start of spring

Lovers of all sports will turn an admiring and/envious eye towards the annual publication of the Wisden – cricket’s Bible from practically year dot of the game as the 19th and 20th Centuries knew it – and so today we provide a link to Vic Marks’ appreciation of the yellow [...]

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

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