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Brighton trains, and taxi

Taking my cue from Neil Rosen’s review of Trains Planes and Automobiles, which I much enjoyed, I thought I might emulate the nightmare trip yesterday. i am often told that Brighton  is under an hour by train and therefore most convenient, transport wise. Not so. I complimented National [...]

January 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Coach to Brighton

In all the years I have been travelling to East Sussex I have never used a coach. It also occurred to me that we travel writers take a middle class view of our trade in the hotels we report, places we visit and how we get there. It  was a case of force majeur as the incessant works on the Brighton [...]

January 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Buon nuovo anno from Stefano

Auguri ( greetings) from Pattaya Beach, Thailand where Umberto and I have decamped for a holiday. Florence is not  a Xmas city and we have the winter break in our football. I receive the occasional despairing text from Alan Tanner. In Italy the sporting director/head coach system is universal, but [...]

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Happy New Year from Nancy Bright- Thompson

We were rather cut off by the storms in East Sussex so we had a quiet dinner with our neighbours. Polly, our horse dealing friend from Brighton, came over during the day and spent some time in the sanctuary. She is one of these bright young women that always lifts our spirits, but she was seeing in [...]

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

As if from a different planet …

Yesterday I had occasion to travel to Liverpool Street for an appointment with an orthopaedic consultant, exactly seven weeks after suffering a hip/thigh injury whilst playing golf on a hilly course. In normal circumstances – i.e. at any point in the previous four decades – this turn of events [...]

November 30, 2013 // 0 Comments

Tuscan wine and food

It is impossible a job to make Fiorentina’s draw at Pacos in the Europa league of any interest to you so I thought I would tell you about Tuscan wine especially as I watched the game in the company of Master of Wine Andrea Rinaldi. Andrea insisted we tried the Castellare wine. it is less [...]

November 29, 2013 // 0 Comments

Brighton

I packed off Aunt Maud to Roedean leaving me a clear day. Sadly the warm weather of Saturday was no more. I had this in mind in booking a flat here as the Marina has many amenities and facilities. It was built some 20 years ago as the brainchild of the entrepreneur George Walker whose business [...]

November 19, 2013 // 0 Comments

A Journey from Hell

I had planned well in advance to take my aunt Maud for a trip to the South Coast . Although not in a wheelchair , mobility is an issue for her. She went to Roedean and always enjoys a visit to her alma mater. It turned out to be the journey from hell. Victoria Station is a building site and our [...]

November 17, 2013 // 0 Comments

REMEMBRANCE DAY IN REGENTS PARK

I was up in London on a bright autumnal Sunday in Regents Park for an article I was commissioned to write for a Japanese on line tourist magazine. My theme was that only London has such a plethora of parks in its centre. Fairly routine stuff so I was searching for an angle. In the inner circle I [...]

November 11, 2013 // 0 Comments

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