Not wanting to overwhelm the main review (The Pig, Brockenhurst on Spittoon) with a mammoth number of photos here is a little gallery of the KitchenRead More

Cigalon Provençal Restaurant & Grill From the rather dreary, cold late-autumn Chancery Lane the narrow door to Cigalon leads to a room of total contrast. UnexpectedlyRead More

If you are tempted by the seaview one of those villas or houses, scattered liberally along the coast will cost you upwards of a AU$1 million.Read More

I loves me a bit of tourist tat! My grand-mother use to hide the toilet rolls under crinoline-glad flamenco dancing dolls, wonderful! A friend of mineRead More

One of the disadvantages of living out “in the sticks” as Jeanne refers to my quiet and picturesque corner of Oxfordshire is the problem of gettingRead More

There is this little restaurant I know down Venice way. You have to grab a ferry to Mazzorbo Island, jump ship at the Bisol owned VenissaRead More

Scribbling on postcards and sipping on a glass of Pommery. The great decision remains open – does the evening meal get eaten outside – so IRead More

Typically I was early; dusty, hot and ever so slightly damp for it was a fine, sunny day in old London town. Nothing that a coolingRead More

There is a big scrawl in my note book surrounded by a double square. It lies half way through notes on the meal I had lastRead More