Without leaving London, this little culinary trip is going to take in three distinctly different countries: Israel, Greece and Syria, beginning with t...

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3 places/3 countries

Last Friday week, a much talked-up Euro 2020 group match between England and Scotland finished goalless. The Scots took more from the match in terms o...

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And after the Scots…

You probably noticed that there was a much-hyped football match on the telly on Friday evening; well, it was at Wembley Stadium if you had tickets per...

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Much Ado About Nothing-Nothing

The truth is that when it comes to any things foreign, I have not been anywhere for 18 months (even though I have had my two coronavirus jabs). With t...

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A beautiful time in Bermuda

We may gradually – and very thankfully – be leaving behind the world where what was once a formal or informal meeting had instead become t...

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Trading in trainers

I have just returned to London from a short ‘staycation’ in the North Norfolk coastal village of Blakeney. The name means ‘Black Island’ in me...

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A bleak kind of beauty

I have mentioned in a previous blog that Heddon Street, London W1, just off Regent Street, was the location for the photo-shoot that provided the cove...

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Heddonism & hedonism