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A Passage to India

Sitting in the departure lounge at Heathrow waiting for my Air India flight, I had two thoughts: (1) Does the England team care that thousands of fans are spending their hard-earned cash to follow England where now the most hopeful and unlikely result is a drawn series? (2) Does the England side [...]

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/The Boathouse and Bann Rim Pa

My readers know that I am always suspicious of restaurants with panoramic views. Both these restaurants have and both I will praise and as much for the quality of their food as views. The Boathouse is situauted on Kata beach on the west of Phuket where all the best beaches are. Kata itself seemed a [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Thailand tracked

It’s now a week since I set off and I feel in a better position to share impressions of Thailand. One must always be mindful that as a tourist you have only a limited perception of a place as you are constrained by the location, people you meet and time you spend. It’s certainly an [...]

November 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colhard/the Blue Elephant Phuket

I have mixed feelings about Thai cuisine. On one hand it can be beautifully presented, on the other limited and too spicy. The chili pepper can nuke the taste buds. Now it has devolved into pubs but at the highest level it’s called Royal Thai as a princess crested a recipe book of 200 dishes. [...]

November 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Brighton 2 Fulham 1

Ivan Conway, with whom I watched the game, was sweet enough to say that a  draw was the right result but if you do not capitalise on your dominance – as we failed to do in the first half and Brighton did in the second – then you will not get even a point. Fulham started the better and [...]

November 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Spanish Game/Charles Cumming

My recent reviews of the Charles Cumming espionage novels reflect an admiration for this novelist. Indeed I would have put this admiration as high as nominating him as the successor to John le Carre. So I read an earlier one of his  called The Spanish Game and having just finished it I am less [...]

November 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Thai Tourism

I am doing some consultancy work for the Thai tourist board and tied my visit with that of Bob who is staying  off Phuket and Grania and Polly who are further down the coast at a elite training camp for athletes. Bob kindly invited us all to spend the day with him. His resort is typical of many [...]

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Thailand

In my travels I have tended over the years to focus on Europe and North America with little experience of the Far East. So I have put this right with a trip starting in a resort in Thailand at Phuket. It involved a long flight and I had been recommended Emirates as a carrier. I did find their [...]

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Films in the sky

There are those who cannot bear flying but I love being in that parallel world that lacks time and location being pampered and above all watching films. Thus it was that I had to make a 7 hour and then 5 hour flight on Emirates and the first thing I looked for on the entertainment screen was the [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s simple really

As the analysts pore over the entrails of England’s defeat in the second test in India they offer all manner of explanation except the most convincing one. If only Alastair Cook had not lost his wicket in the final over, if only we avoided the customary collapse – yet we lost the match [...]

November 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

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