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The T20 Final

Correct me if I am wrong but if England win on Sunday this will be the only World Cup trophy they have won twice. We have certainly mastered the grammar of T20 cricket and much is due to Andrew Strauss who put the white ball game  high up the priority list. When he became Middlesex captain he [...]

April 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Mougins

Yesterday I went to Mougins for lunch to meet some Sussex friends who had a villa there. Cyrille picked me up and was his normal, informative self. He told me the croissant originated in Vienna during the siege by the Turks when a baker heard the vibrations of the invading army tunnelling. This was [...]

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

France Football

Michel di Vacri I have enjoyed the company of Monsieur Robert and his entourage but I thought the readers might appreciate a break from the restaurants and the good life and allow me a few paragraphs to discuss the state of French national football. Les Bleus are the host of the forthcoming Euros [...]

March 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Monte Carlo

Yesterday we all went to Monte Carlo. The Monte Carlo Beach Club was not open for visitors for its pool and spa area till mid-April. Its website informed us the opening date was March 6th. I booked the restaurant  and asked if we could use the facilities in the spa, open to hotel guests, and now [...]

March 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Night Manager

Rarely has a series of drama attracted such favourable critical acclaim and popularity from the viewing public as The Night Manager. At a recent Sunday lunch I attended it even was discussed before Brexit. A lady friend of mine, an academic poet who never watches television confessed to being [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

In praise of Nice

I’m getting the measure of Nice and broadly approve of the city. Given that it was occupied by the Italians, Germans and Allies and bombed by the last two only seventy years ago, it has regenerated well into  a major French City that attracts travellers and inhabitants world wide. This is [...]

March 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

Over these past few days we have been to several restaurants varying in luxury, price and cuisine and voila my report. I won’t add more to the Grand Hotel  Cap Ferrat, its location at the tip of the Cap is sublime and the service, cuisine and comfort superb. My spaghetti nero (in cuttle fish [...]

March 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Honoured Society/Norman Lewis

There is a certain and deliberate irony in the title of this Norman Lewis work on the Sicilan Mafia as the distinguished travel writer clearly regards the Sicilan mafia as dishonourable. His observation of them runs from 1943 to 1962. In 1943 the Allies invaded Sicily. The Canadian and British [...]

March 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la recherche du temps perdu

Yesterday I revisited a place where I stayed 6 months between March and September 1966, Cap Ferrat. I was amazed how little it had changed even the personalities I remembered were still with us. I was staying with a school friend whose father was a  successful property developer and who had a [...]

March 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice evaluated

I can add little more to Daffers review of the Colombe D’Or except to say how much I enjoyed myself and only France could create such a restaurant. Staying with Michel,  and les girls installed in his apartment we have all a better grasp of Nice than being in a hotel. Whether it’s the [...]

March 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

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