Dear Cher, ubert doesn’t offer me a boiled egg for breakfast! Imagine my reaction when I see one being delivered later on a tray to another passenger across on the opposite window seat? And I’ve been offered only an old omelette made hours before in an airline kitchen. Of course I have to comment, and …
ans! Yes, forty-five years since my first visit to Paris, although there’s been many visits here since in my business life. But it is forty-five years since I travelled on Le Métro in Paris – more a daunting experience than an adventure these days, especially when I have a date and I’m running …
Click on the arrow in the bottom left of the photo below to PLAY VIDEO The Camino de Santiago ‘Our Way’ t the start of the video, you’ll see our group of twelve ‘pilgrims’ sitting around a large table after lunch in Astorga in the north of Spain. We are discussing the …
antistique! There’s not a breeze on this perfect afternoon around 8pm – just the birds to break the still of the field. That is, until Franck, our pilot for the balloon ride, fires up the gas burners that are attached to the basket that will carry twelve of us. He then gives us a …
ime for a Libyan meal at the chateau! I accompany Naser to the boucherie in La Flèche to purchase the meat for his Libyan Rozz bil Khalta (Oriental Rice with Nuts). I can’t imagine the meat from the leg of the lamb being suitable for a casserole but he is determined. And I’m …