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Over the Easter weekend, in a social setting, I found myself in a conversation with a lady of roughly my own vintage which touched upon the problems of ageing and dealing with elderly relatives. It all sprang from her inevitable enquiry as to how my surviving elderly parent was – a query [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

In praise of Nice

I’m getting the measure of Nice and broadly approve of the city. Given that it was occupied by the Italians, Germans and Allies and bombed by the last two only seventy years ago, it has regenerated well into  a major French City that attracts travellers and inhabitants world wide. This is [...]

March 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

Over these past few days we have been to several restaurants varying in luxury, price and cuisine and voila my report. I won’t add more to the Grand Hotel  Cap Ferrat, its location at the tip of the Cap is sublime and the service, cuisine and comfort superb. My spaghetti nero (in cuttle fish [...]

March 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la recherche du temps perdu

Yesterday I revisited a place where I stayed 6 months between March and September 1966, Cap Ferrat. I was amazed how little it had changed even the personalities I remembered were still with us. I was staying with a school friend whose father was a  successful property developer and who had a [...]

March 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice evaluated

I can add little more to Daffers review of the Colombe D’Or except to say how much I enjoyed myself and only France could create such a restaurant. Staying with Michel,  and les girls installed in his apartment we have all a better grasp of Nice than being in a hotel. Whether it’s the [...]

March 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pointing out the obvious

Sometimes you have to be tough or controversial. What happened yesterday in Belgium was a terrible terrorist outrage and it ill bodes anyone to make political points out of such a catastrophe. Still – and I must declare here I’m a Brexit supporter only for the cack-handed reason that [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / the Colombe D’Or

There is no other word for the Colombe D’Or at St Paul de Vence than sublime and the best possible venue for Bob’s birthday. Even the weather, a blue sky with a touch of breeze and 18 degrees was superb. The Colombe D’Or is for a variety of reasons not yer normal hotel/restaurant. [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Easy pickings

About six or so years ago, I’m always a bit hazy upon these details, I received a 6 months’ driving ban for having amassed (was it a total of 12 points?) as a result of speeding offences. I don’t expect any sympathy from my readers – I admit that technically I’d probably been speeding the [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

I did not take too much persuading to join Bob Tickler in Nice with awful weather predicted for Easter. I also had a friend, an ex soldier called Jocelyn who has set up home there. My guide to riviera restaurants “Entre la Cote, Entre Nous” always requires updating too. Yesterday we [...]

March 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Because it’s there (not because it pays)

Sometimes, when you’re casting around for something to blog about, you can receive a helping hand from a traditional media outlet or vehicle. Today this happened for me when I came upon a blog by Ros Barber that appears today upon the website of The Guardian, giving her opinion on the experience [...]

March 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

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