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Harry’s Ramblings; Eastbourne Bombing in WW2

Harry PopeOctober 31, 2020Comments Off 2020-10-30T14:40:49+00:00

by Harry Pope 11,475 houses in Eastbourne during WW2 had some kind of damage from German bombing. This is from a town that had a population in 1939 of...

Build Your Own American-Deli Style Sandwich

Lyn October 30, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-29T14:43:48+00:00

I’m really proud of this. It’s absolutely delicious, & suitable for everyone, either friends or family. The Americans are more adventurous than we Brits at mixing their ingredients &...

Massenez’s eau-de-vie and liqueurs, trendier than ever – Meanderings through France n° 223

Annick Dournes & Frederic De Poligny October 29, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-28T12:44:20+00:00

By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Since 1870 Massenez is the gold standard in the world of spirits and liqueurs. For 150 years and through four...

Malta Diary Memories of boyhood fishing days – another pleasure lost to today’s young generation?

Albert Fenech October 28, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-27T15:23:57+00:00

ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: The sea is never far away in Malta and Gozo and is very much part of the DNA of its...

Welsh Witterings: Welsh Government Dictates What is Non-Essential

Seren Charrington-Hollins October 27, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-26T13:20:49+00:00

On Friday 24th October at 6:00pm supermarkets throughout Wales were busy, but not busy with customers, they were busy with their staff plastic wrapping the shelves and cordoning off...

Spooky Half Term at Stratford Butterfly Farm

Ann Evans October 26, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-25T09:39:34+00:00

For half-term and Halloween fun, head to Stratford-upon-Avon’s award-winning Butterfly Farm, Ann Evans has the details. Visitors can enjoy a spooky half term at Stratford’s Butterfly Farm from...

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Rachel´s Wanderings in Spain – Curtailed Again. New Restrictions for Bank Holiday Weekend

Rachel WebbOctober 31, 2020Comments Off 2020-10-30T14:30:52+00:00

So Figgy Bread baked, eaten, baked and eaten again a rest is needed and more walking necessary, which as it is Bank Holiday Weekend – Dia de Todos...

Fiat has every right to be Cross but tantrum, or not, it might not save Tipo

Iain P W Robertson October 30, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-29T15:00:55+00:00

IAIN ROBERTSON Four years ago, recalls Iain Robertson, sometime Italian car giant, Fiat, relaunched its Tipo model, with a comprehensively well-considered ‘offer’ to both private buyers and business users...

Elles Bailey finally returns to the road with a socially distanced show at The Appleyard in Sittingbourne on Nov 14th

Lyn October 29, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-28T12:56:53+00:00

Wild Wild West taken from the CD release Blacktop Companion. Out now, you can hear the track at : MP3 We Transfer : WAV We...

Energetic, elegant and efficient, it’s all the ‘E’s’ for executive BMW 5-Series

Iain P W Robertson October 28, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-27T15:40:52+00:00

IAIN ROBERTSON We are told that ‘E-numbers’ are not good for us but ‘E-words’ are a different measure altogether, writes Iain Robertson, and the latest generation 5-Series takes the...

Revised Velar takes another tilt at upmarket SUV sector

Iain P W Robertson October 27, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-27T09:52:24+00:00

IAIN ROBERTSON While not suggesting that the previous Velar was on a hiding to nothing, Iain Robertson was heartily disappointed by the original test example’s electronic failures, which were...

Karl’s Chronicles. Article 50 Marrakesh – The Maze of Shadows

Karl Beeney October 26, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-25T11:32:04+00:00

Pummelled and bruised like a failed fighter, the glum wasp-yellow taxi coughed its way down Rue Mohamed V. The broad artery named after the first King at Independence from...

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Fiat has every right to be Cross but tantrum, or not, it might not save Tipo

Iain P W RobertsonOctober 30, 2020Comments Off 2020-10-29T15:00:55+00:00

Elles Bailey finally returns to the road with a socially distanced show at The Appleyard in Sittingbourne on Nov 14th

Lyn October 29, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-28T12:56:53+00:00

Wild Wild West taken from the CD release Blacktop Companion. Out now, you can hear the track at : MP3 We Transfer : WAV We...

Energetic, elegant and efficient, it’s all the ‘E’s’ for executive BMW 5-Series

Iain P W Robertson October 28, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-27T15:40:52+00:00

IAIN ROBERTSON We are told that ‘E-numbers’ are not good for us but ‘E-words’ are a different measure altogether, writes Iain Robertson, and the latest generation 5-Series takes the...

Revised Velar takes another tilt at upmarket SUV sector

Iain P W Robertson October 27, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-27T09:52:24+00:00

IAIN ROBERTSON While not suggesting that the previous Velar was on a hiding to nothing, Iain Robertson was heartily disappointed by the original test example’s electronic failures, which were...

Karl’s Chronicles. Article 50 Marrakesh – The Maze of Shadows

Karl Beeney October 26, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-25T11:32:04+00:00

Pummelled and bruised like a failed fighter, the glum wasp-yellow taxi coughed its way down Rue Mohamed V. The broad artery named after the first King at Independence from...

Spooky Half Term at Stratford Butterfly Farm

Ann Evans October 26, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-25T09:39:34+00:00

For half-term and Halloween fun, head to Stratford-upon-Avon’s award-winning Butterfly Farm, Ann Evans has the details. Visitors can enjoy a spooky half term at Stratford’s Butterfly Farm from...

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A sunny autumn city-break in Athens – World Meanderings (n°100)

Annick Dournes & Frederic De PolignyOctober 15, 2020Comments Off 2020-10-19T14:31:58+01:00

By Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny Being just back from a three weeks tour in Greece we can assure you that Greece is one of the...

Back to Greece: Zakynthos Island could boast being Greece paradise island

Annick Dournes & Frederic De Poligny October 1, 2020 Comments Off2020-09-30T13:09:33+01:00

Back to Greece. Zakynthos Island could boast being Greece paradise island By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Even if you won’t find any ancient Greek monument on...

Ranjit Recommends Cream, Cafes & Cycloramic Captures of Cornwall

Ranjit Shergill September 20, 2020 Comments Off2020-10-27T15:48:03+00:00

Cornwall was indeed the epicentre of British Tourism in the summer of 2020. Indeed, with many countries within mainland Europe now being added to the list of quarantined countries...

Back to Mystra, the ghost city of the Byzantine Empire – World Meanderings (n°98)

Annick Dournes & Frederic De Poligny September 3, 2020 Comments Off2020-09-02T16:31:33+01:00

By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny If we all know Constantinople as the first largest city of the Byzantine Empire, few of us know about the...

Pilsen, the city where beer flows like water – World Meanderings (n°97)

Annick Dournes & Frederic De Poligny August 27, 2020 Comments Off2020-08-26T15:10:56+01:00

By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Beer has been brewed in Pilsen ever since the town was founded in 1295. It also is the city where the...

Athens looks towards modern art – World Meanderings (n°96

Annick Dournes & Frederic De Poligny August 20, 2020 Comments Off2020-08-19T11:20:17+01:00

By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Athens is not all about Antiquity. The proof is in the recent opening of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation,...