Welcome to Dunkirk. Just look at it on the screen. Glorious blue skies. Magnificent white beaches. A lot of men hanging around waiting for boats to ar...
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Only one man had won three major championships before his 24th birthday. And, no, it wasn’t Tiger Woods. It was Jack Nicklaus. Now Jordan Spieth...
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Bondage isn’t necessarily everyone’s idea of a fantasy – it isn’t mine for a start (or a finish, come to that) – but it ...
Read MoreFANTASY: Love is a Battlefield
The Algarve coast of Portugal is a hugely popular destination for British tourists and ex-pats, lured by the year-long decent weather (very warm in th...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Best foot forward in southern Portugal
Last month I went to see the fabulous Pink Floyd exhibition, Their Mortal Remains, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. Entering t...
Read MoreFUN: Floyd at the V&A – where pigs do fly
We got a lucky break flying with British Airways out of Heathrow on Saturday. The flight went on time. By that I don’t just mean that when it sa...
Read MoreFLYING: Fit to fly – not affected by any BA delay
Last Friday was the first anniversary of the Referendum in which the UK voted by 51.9% to 48.1% to leave the European Union. At some point betwee...
Read MoreFANTASY: Wishing that Brexit would take an exit
The E.M. Forster novel, A Room With A View, was written over a century ago. The film version provided an at-times beautiful portrait of Florence, the ...
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