reaking the long flight from Europe to Australia in Shanghai for a change seems like a reasonable idea. I’m staying on the 23rd floor of a brand-new hotel on the Bund with uninterrupted views out over the Huangpu River to the futuristic skyscrapers on the Pudong side. Fortunately, there is no smog and the skies …
f only I could ‘bottle’ the team of Mama Marguerite, her daughter Isabella, and partner Marco, we’d have a veritable ‘living’ cookbook of the best recipes of regional food of Puglia. The three of them rattle-up to our villa in their little car most nights lugging bags of fresh produce, and it’s through these lovely …
Michael Schramm RIP ast night, the eleven of us in our extended Puglia family joined Anne and Trevor at a Feast Day Mass in the church in Locorotondo to commemorate the first anniversary of their son (and my nephew) Michael’s death last year. Fr Frank, my old Amex friend and now the parish priest of …
Our 2-week stay at Villa Trullo Pinnacolo in the countryside of Pugia was a series of welcomes, reunions, and surprises. My sister Anne and Trevor and I were ‘in residence’ for the whole fortnight. The first week revolved around Musgrave family, and in the second week my ‘extended’ family from different parts of the world, …
he ‘Baroness’ von Stieglitz was in real trouble with her ‘companion’ El Duque de Cobos in an impromptu performance of the Tango and Gypsy Rhumba down by our pool at the villa a couple of nights ago. El Duque de Cobos choreographed the opening sequence of the Latin Dance ‘performance’ and ‘rehearsed’ the Baroness to …