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Tombs churches & opera

The many reasons I love Italy are reflected in this hotel: there is the connection and pride in Italy’s classical antiquity. On the bed the turn-down service had left a booklet on the tombs of the ruling Scala family which we visited first thing and very fine sepulchres these were too. Second, [...]

July 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Churches hotel and fine dining

We arrived at out hotel Due Torri (two towers) at 12-30. It was too early to check in so most of the party went to its fifth floor to enjoy the panoramic view and eat. The party is still finding its feet. One elderly lady at our table confessed she had difficulty in finding her words and with [...]

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Verona

The relationship between the National Rust and airport security is not a happy one. One of of my colleagues left his Ipad there and yesterday’s Bob Tickler’s was taken in error by a fellow traveller from the carousel after security checking and then departed on his flight to Dubrovnik. A [...]

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Secret of the Unicorn

There has been some reportage on the Rust on recalling the moon landings which prompted me to investigate whether a film or TV series cartoon was made of the two stories Destination Moon and Explorers of the Moon by Hergé featuring Tintin and Captain Haddock’s lunar exploration. I could not find [...]

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sunday’s sport

Team orders v individual assertion; that is the story of F1 and this year’s Tour de France. Egan Behgal of the Ineos team could have won on Saturday but he is the domestique to team leader Geraint Thomas. Chris Froomee was the same to Bradley Wiggins and Thomas to Froome. Now its Beghal’s [...]

July 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Open /First Day an alternative view

The majority of the previews on the Open focused on Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods who finished eight and seven over respectively. By going on a family holiday in Thailand and playing few events since winning the Masters, Tiger was seeming not to take his chances seriously. Rory has won the Canadian [...]

July 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

A day at Sissinghurst

I have a friend on the Rust who is addicted to the TV hospital programme Holby even though he has a phobia of hospitals. It’s much the same with me and gardens. I could not name you a single flower nor plant but like nothing better, especially in summer, than to roam in gardens. In their later [...]

July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Remembering lunar exploration

The programmes commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the landing on the moon prompted me to research my memory banks. My interest began before 1969 with Herge’s Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon published some 10 years before. It’s different from other Tintin adventures in that [...]

July 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

A day at Oxford

A good friend of mine who, despite attending Cambridge University, is deeply knowledgeable on Oxford had arranged a day there for me as a belated birthday present. We took the coach known as the Oxford Tube from Victoria. I do not often use coach travel but it was comfortable with a table for 4, a [...]

July 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

The World Cup final

This match was surely the greatest argument for the I-was-there brigade which included me in the Great Rust Debate. Never mind that my earpiece was attached to TMS all day whose commentary was superb and crucially on top of the rule requirements to decide a winner that the match itself nor [...]

July 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

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