Vidauban is a rather unprepossessing village in Provence, about ten miles off the A8 autoroute via the Le Muy/St Tropez exit. But just outside it, on ...
Read MoreMonth: December 2015
Christmas is supposed to be fun, isn’t it? I mean, I know it’s first and foremost a celebration of the birth of Christ; God’s gift t...
Read MoreFUN: Christmas log blog
The much-acclaimed author, Julian Barnes, won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for his novel The Sense of an Ending, which – for what it’s wor...
Read MoreFICTION: Leicester City and golf, slow-burning literary titans
In some respects, the sports pages today are exactly as José Mourinho would want them to be. They are all about him. OK, they are all about his sacki...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: Do you know the way to sack José? (with apologies to Dionne Warwick)
I think the Caribbean is a gorgeous place to go on holiday. Hardly a controversial sentence, I’ll grant you, but there it is. While there recen...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Caribbean cruising for luxuries
Robert Louis Stevenson famously opined that “to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive”. The emphasis of the sentiment, of cour...
Read MoreFLYING: High jinks and (not) putting on the Ritz
It was James Carville, an advisor to Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign in 1992, who coined the phrase “It’s the econom...
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