I was in France last week and I was reminded, for the nth time, that coffee there tastes so much better than it does here. I don’t mean that yo...
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There were four Basque restaurants rated in the best 20 in the world according to one recent and prestigious ranking of such things, which makes the ...
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There is nothing Inspector Salvo Montalbano dislikes more than people who want to talk to him while he’s enjoying a meal. Frankly, an unsolved c...
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I am very keen on crazy golf, even if – as with the real thing – I’m not very good at it. For example, when one Michael Smith won the British Mi...
Read MoreFUN: A game to drive you crazy
Wentworth, its West Course being the original home of the World Matchplay Championship, founded in 1964, and current home to the BMW PGA Championship,...
Read MoreGOLF: A bit rich is not enough
The beautiful game has sure got itself into an ugly mess. It looks like Sepp Blatter might be at last soon be on his way out of the door as head of FI...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: Soccer mad
The movie adaptation of the black-comedy novel Kill Your Friends is/was – depending on when you’re reading this – released in cine...
Read MoreFILM: Expecting a makeover for misogyny
Martin Samuel, writing in the Daily Mail this September about some terrible train conditions and connections (or lack of) during the recent Rugby Wor...
Read MoreFLYING: Chicago Blues
I think I’m in favour of Britain remaining in the European Union. I’m pretty sure I am. But, and this is a really big BUT, did you know th...
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