Travel

The National Rust party convened at Gatwick for the long weekend trip I organised to Madrid: Bob Tickler, Daffers, Alan Tanner and Ivan Conway. Bob in particular does not have an intuitive feel for modern day travel. He dislikes having to print out tickets, does not want them on his mobile and [...]

Our charming and cheeky waitress Camille finessed the failure of my Bellini and Elodie’s Bloody Mary to arrive together by informing us she is going to the bar for “Ze Bluddie” right away. Over the 24 hours in Paris I would substitute this for bloody mindedness of which we [...]

We travelled by Eurostar an experience I found greatly preferable to airplanes. Modern airports are so stressful, you are in the air for less than an hour and still have the journey from the airport to the city centre of Paris.  On the Eurostar the seats are comfy, the carriage service efficient, [...]

Today I’m travelling to Paris for an antiques fair at the Grand Palais. Such is the state of Southern Fail that whilst logistically feasible to travel from the south to St Pancras International directly by the Capital Connect Line it is too risky to make the journey in one day by walking the [...]

When ex-premier Jim Callaghan retired from office he was asked what he would miss the most and he said a driver. It’s truly one of life’s great luxuries to be collected and delivered door to door avoiding all the stress of driving and other means of transport. A luxury has become a [...]

Brighton is never a city to sit on its laurels or its backside. The electric railway of Magnus Volk, still running from the pier to the Marina, is the oldest such railway in the world; it is the only coastal city with its own Palace the  Royal Pavilion. It has the quaint Lanes full of antiques [...]