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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

Boats ahoy!

On Wednesday I jumped onto an Easyjet flight at Gatwick in order to nip down to Palma, Mallorca, and spend just 28 hours seeing my son Barry who lives and works there. I’d originally hoped to do this seven days earlier – on his birthday – but such is his hectic work schedule that he [...]

April 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Eden Roc Hotel and Tetou

Neither of the two places we visited yesterday would be for anyone on an austerity budget. You have the impression that after driving past the gorgeous villas of Cap D’Antibes, the largest is owned by Boris Yeltsin’s daughter, that both are maximising the super wealth of the area. [...]

April 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new business opportunity

This one comes straight from the “You couldn’t make it up” genre of newspaper website stories but, in case Rust readers have missed it on their daily trawl of the internet, today I really did feel the need to draw their attention to this recent story on the imminent arrival of the concept of [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Sanary memory

We all left Sanary yesterday evening with positive memories. We particularly liked the hotel, La Farandole. A modern construction of stone overlooking the beach, la Gorgette, between Sanary and Bandol it had lovely views over the bay. My room with plate glass windows looking out to sea, cream tiles [...]

April 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sanary sur Mer

Yesterday I led the National Rust party to Sanary, a small town on the sea between the two great ports of Toulon and Marseilles. It was colonised by Aldous Huxley and Cyril Connolly and Cybille Bedford who wrote a rather good memoir of her upbringing there called Jigsaw. We decided to take the [...]

April 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ touristy restaurants

The description of a restaurant as ‘touristy’ is often used by locals to mean expensive or poor food and certainly a place they would not visit. I do not always think this fair nor conversely that local restaurants are always the best either. 3 restaurants I am reviewing today might be [...]

April 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picasso Museum Antibes

Yesterday I took the National Rust party to the Picasso museum in Antibes. It is housed in the Grimaldi castle which Picasso was given as a studio for 6 months after the war and in appreciation gave some 26 of his works. Jacqueline Picasso gave some more in 1990 and now the museum has 246 pieces [...]

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Health and relationships

It’s an open secret that the editorial board of the Rust rarely meets in person, conducting as it does most of its business via the modern technological marvel of the internet. However, it is also metaphorically true that – at our editorial ‘gatherings’ over the ether – nothing invites [...]

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

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