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The advance party left a cold and blustery Sussex yesterday early morning and within 5 hours we were enjoying the Royal Sea Food platter in Nice’s finest fish restaurant. The party comprised myself, Daffers and her p/a,  a French lady called Valerie. Valerie had immediately established her [...]

March 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Recommended pieces spotted in today’s media

Here’s a list of items on today’s media pages that might be of interest to Rust readers: Here’s an interesting take on probably the biggest internet/politics scandal to break so far this year. Julia Carrie Wong – writing from San Francisco – on the issues arising from [...]

March 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

Pull the other one

Today I know that I’m going to seem like a curmudgeonly old non-PC misogynist by offering my views on this subject. However, I know that this won’t bother my female fellow columnists unduly because all those that I’ve spoken to have told me so. Here’s my text for [...]

March 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

Just getting on with it

I’ve blogged previously about my weird sleep patterns so some of what follows Rust readers may already be familiar with and bored by. It happens to be 11.56pm on Saturday evening as I begin typing and that’s largely because, having gone to bed at 7.30pm, I awoke again at 10.20pm. My normal [...]

March 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Internet – blessing or curse?

A discussion we oldies often have on the Rust is how we cope in the digital age. A friend of mine put it rather well “Our generation has had to go from nothing to word for windows overnight,” I regard it all as a challenge. When it goes well I get a certain feeling of pride but when [...]

March 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

wrapping up

Although 4 days was sufficient to see most of the sites of Munich and take the pulse of this vibrant city, I would have liked more time to get under its skin. I did not for example pick up on its independence drive. In one sense this is not surprising as the Bavarians are a proud people and Germany [...]

March 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

A meeting of minds

Earlier this week I joined an irregular session of dispirited erstwhile and current Quins fans at a local public house to discuss the state of the club. Let nobody beat about the bush – the motives of those attending this informal little brains trust can be confidently be filed under the headings [...]

March 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Schwarzreiter/ Bayerischer Hof

I prepped up on Munich restaurants and Schwarzreiter came up trumps. I was concerned as it was located in the Four Seasons Hotel and hotel restaurants can lack atmosphere and attract only a business clientele.  In fact it had a separate entrance and the number of business people were outnumbered [...]

March 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

Seeing the sights

Yesterday we visited the BMW WELT and the BMW museum and the Olympic Park which is nearby. BMW stands for Bayerischer Motoren Werken. They started business providing engines for aircraft for the first German Air Force but in 1929 took over another car company in Thuringen and went into car [...]

March 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

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