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Fowey and Helford Estuary

Though Cornwall is not the Riviera, for its range of locations and talented characters drawn there, there is still much to do of interest. On Sunday we went to Fowey on the river Fowey and opposite lies Bodinnick where Gerald du Maurier had a chalet style home and introduced Daphne to the locale. [...]

August 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Trip to Cornwall

Our readers might find this difficult to believe but we do not confer before our postings so it’s entirely possible to write on the same theme. Today I am touching on a subject aired yesterday, namely road travel. It’s that time of year again when the Rusters make their annual [...]

July 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A wayward sense of direction

Any time I jump into a car and go anywhere I am accompanied by an going potential disaster in the form of a location and/or directional cock-up. I don’t know why this happens – folklore has it either that women are hopeless map readers compared to men, or (alternatively) both sexes are equally [...]

July 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

The French Riviera: a literary guide for travellers/Ted Jones

Travel writing is not one of my preferred reading genres though I recognize the merit of Eric Newby, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and the humour of Bill Bryson. Travel for me is visual and personal not objective and written. However I do enjoy a book on the characters that lived in a region I know well [...]

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

The future of travel and power?

About eighteen months ago my son Barry, who lives abroad, made one of his occasional fleeting visits to the UK and as usual spent much of it on the move – attending a business meeting, catching up with friends and family and doing some shopping in central London. Sometime last summer he was over [...]

July 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Cruising – part two

Readers may be interested in the process – or lack of it – by which copy finishes up on the National Rust. Any or all of us can contribute and the editor decides what makes it. You might have thought this this would engender a competitiveness but on the contrary we are a collegiate lot. [...]

July 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Devil’s Dyke

Sussex where I live is blessed with picturesque countryside right up to the coast. Yesterday my brother visited and I decided we would go to Devil’s Dyke, a popular beauty spot not 5 minutes drive from the sea front at Hove. It gives its name to a story that the Devil himself tried to flood [...]

July 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

A life on the ocean wave

Earlier this year some neighbours of my father went on a ‘wrong way around the world’ sea cruise trip to New Zealand before eventually making the return journey by air. If memory serves, the sea cruise leg of their odyssey took them seven or eight weeks. Some time after they got back [...]

July 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

The charging of service

According to Wikipedia, it is believed that in Western European culture the practice of giving a tip or gratuity began around 1600 – the first reference to ‘giving a gratuity’ is apparently specifically dated to 1706 – and ‘tip’ was probably first adapted for use in a slang context from [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Southwold: an Earthly Paradise

For many years my second husband Laurie and I had a second home in Southwold. He is an a illustrator and taught in evening classes in Roehampton College. There a Polish student with blue eyes, glossy hair and full young breasts, none of which I possess, seduced him and our marriage broke up. We [...]

June 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

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