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On the road again …

Yesterday in total I drove nearly 300 miles in the cause of taking my aged parent from the south coast to a rapidly-expanding new town north of Oxford for a family lunch, back again, and then onwards to my home in south-west London. I’m not saying I wasn’t tired at the conclusion of this epic [...]

May 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

First of the season

They say that simple things please simple minds and maybe that is true. Yesterday, in a party of six, I set off on board a motor launch somewhere along the south coast of England for our first outing of 2017. The co-owners of the boat always refuse to have it put it in the water before mid-May on [...]

May 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

An expedition into town

Yesterday I went on my first trip to central London in about five months for a lunch. Courtesy of my old age pensioners’ free whatever-it’s-called travel card I travelled by rail to Waterloo and thence by the Northern Line to Tottenham Court Road, scene of one of my former working haunts. The [...]

May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another tale of ‘cheap and cheerful’ flying

Reading of Robert Tickler’s experience of flying back to the UK by Easyjet on the Rust yesterday brought to mind my own progress from Palma, Mallorca to Gatwick on Thursday evening. One of the things that never ceases to amaze me – when our media and left wing politicians would have it that the [...]

April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

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

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

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

No particular place to go

I had mixed feelings this week having read the media story about the UK petition calling for those over 70 to be given compulsory driving tests. It was started by a bereaved gentleman whose wife was mowed down whilst they walking along a pavement by an 83 year old pensioner whom, it appears, [...]

April 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

2 gardens and an aquarium

Yesterday I organised a full day of activities for Jamie and his mother. Jamie is a keen marine biologist and our first port of call was the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco which houses an aquarium. Over the years I have visited a number of aquariums without Jamie’s enthusiasm for the marine [...]

April 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

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