I set foot in France for the first time when I was 14, stepping off a UTA flight and into the warm air of a Nice evening. My father had finally decided that at 11 years old, my brother would be old enough to appreciate foreign shores and booked tickets for the family to accompany […]
Click here for a full portionCelebrity Reflection – cruise review
When I was 19 years old, my father decided that it was time to take the family on an ocean cruise. Strictly speaking it was not the first cruise I’d been on: when I was about 2 he had attended a medical conference on a cruise ship that sailed around off the coast of Cape […]
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I always feel like somebody’s watching me – Celebrity Reflection, October 2012
Click here for a full portionRotkohl (braised red cabbage with apples)
“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing wax; of cabbages and kings…” So wrote Lewis Carroll in The Walrus and the Carpenter, one of the very few poems in which the humble cabbage gets a mention. Can anybody actually think of another notable […]
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Anybody home? – Gascony shutter, September 2012
Click here for a full portionChicken and chanterelle mushroom fricassee
Everyone who has seen the spellbinding film Amadeus must at some time have pondered thisquestion: how do you know which cultural artefacts from your time will survive for centuries to come, and which will sink into the mists of obscurity? In the film, we see the parallel stories of approximate contemporaries Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus […]
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