Sh!tfaced Shakespeare Staggers to London
A hot ticket for a West End theatre. A cocktail or two before curtain up. Maybe a light supper at the end of the performance. Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekov. ... Read more.
Travel: Sailing France’s Canal du Midi
‘MAN OVERBOARD!’ we should have shouted into the night when one of our crew made a spectacular splash into the Canal du Midi as she tripped over the mooring... Read more.
Visit Windsor For A Right Royal Jubilee Treat
As Jubilee junkets go this was a right royal way to push the boat out. Cruising along the mighty Thames to park (sorry, moor) our stately white craft just across…... Read more.
The Art of Bansky – An Unauthorised Collection Too Tempting To Miss
Banksy appears to have been busy on a ‘spray cation’ this summer in East Anglia with eight new art works to entrance, irritate, arouse and amuse. Britain’s... Read more.
Game for Anything @ Jugged Hare
A vegan’s worst dream come true: four cuddly, furry hares hanging by their back legs above the swinging kitchen door. On each side a selection of equally... Read more.
Welcome to the World of Walking Apps
These Apps are made for walkin’ And that’s just what they’ll do One of these days these Apps are gonna walk all over… Oxford, Liverpool, Edinburgh, London.... Read more.
A Taste of Kazakhstan in Kensington
Across a busy London High Street the promise of foreign holidays demands our attention. Trail Finders, Virgin Travel and a couple of flight centres tempt us with... Read more.
Al Fresco Feasting in Pays de Gex
There can’t be many places where you can sip a flute of bubbly, glug just-chucked oysters, sample ‘bleu’ roast beef, taste tempting terrines, savour exotic... Read more.
Touring Malta Through Wine From The Comfort of Home
Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, must have been in coronavirus lock-down when a cargo of the finest Maltese reds and whites was transported to London and onwards... Read more.
Horrendous Hake or Chocolate Heaven?
Hake swimming in chocolate sauce? Has the chef lost his marbles? Is this another bizarre dish dreamed up by Heston Blumenthal? No. This unlikely... Read more.
Film: Dancing at the Vatican
Watch out for a heart-warming film about an extraordinary journey of a group of Latin Americans suffering from the little-understood and hidden Huntington’s Disease.... Read more.
Cruising The Rhone
Ship’s captain Elvis Nicolas was busy Hoovering the bridge when we visited the nerve centre of his vessel M.S. Van Gogh, making stately progress on the River Rhone.... Read more.
