Morgan’s anachronistic but artful three-wheeler bows out, for the moment
IAIN ROBERTSON With Type Approval ending in 2021 on the vee-twin S&S engine visible on the front-end of Morgan Motor Company’s wonderful ‘trike’, reports Iain Robertson, a final...
Malta Diary Good urban planning – or a subterfuge for spirits, humanoids and secret sects? Maybe it was just plain commonsense?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: The island of Malta is riddled with underground tunnels and the two islands of Malta and Gozo abound with caves,...
Karl’s Chronicles. Victoria Falls – High & Dry
Mist, clouds, rain and thunder on a bright blue day! Such a contradiction would puzzle a meteorologist as two opposites couldn’t compete without one losing ground, but the performance...
London Mural Festival now open for all to enjoy
Artists have been brightening the streets of London, Ann Evans has the details. Londoners and visitors to the Capital can brighten up their journeys by keeping an eye...
Light and Easy Christmas Cake, No Egg Fruit Cake, Quick to Make
This recipe is one I play with depending on what dried fruit is in the cupboard. Usually I have dried figs, which I dry myself in the Andalusian sunshine,...
Eastbourne’s Sad Seafront
by Harry Pope First, a bit of basic history. The area was unwanted until the early 1850s, when the railway came to the town. It is between Hastings...
Living the highlife in Downtown Miami Part 2
Elciel By Ann Mealor A joyous, culinary journey into unchartered, unexplored territory. That was our dining experience at El Cielo. Meaning ‘heaven’ in Colombian, El Cielo is indeed a...
“Bid for the Louvre”, an online auction to help the Parisian museum – Meanderings through France n° 224
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny From 1st to 15th December the Louvre and Christie’s in collaboration with the French auction house Drouot organise an exceptional auction....
Ferrari takes another step into the stratosphere with ‘Modificata’
IAIN ROBERTSON It may not possess the ‘winningest’ team in Formula One (at present), highlights Iain Robertson, but its record in sportscar racing, in many ways more relevant...
Malta Diary A history of plagues and epidemics over many decades – restrictions are endemic in the DNA of the people of the Maltese Islands
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: Yep, Christmas is coming and we should be hearing the tinkling of bells and the rustling of holly and ivy –...
A place to stay: the JW Marriott Miami
Situated in Miami’s swish financial district, the JW Marriott Miami is the ‘grand dame’ of hotels being the first to open in this area. Due to its city location,...
Taxi Noir: A Handful of Great British Pubs
Great Britain is full of terrific pubs, and I’ve listed a mere five quintessentially British pubs that I hope to get to visit when the war is over. The...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 52 Benchmark
Two steps up through an open painted door lead one into a garage that has long been overtaken, like the ivy spreading across the outer walls, by the...
The Incredible Gardens at Cliveden
Photos: Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography If you are travelling to Buckinghamshire Ann Evans suggests you take time to visit Cliveden Gardens. There’s so much to say about...
Living the highlife in Downtown Miami Part 1
By Ann Mealor Downtown is now the vibrant heart of Miami with a fast growing resident population of young, affluent, professions. A whole host of artistic, dining and entertainment...
Enjoy the Costa del Sol at its best at “Ikos Andalusia”- World Meanderings (n°104)
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Although we all have to grin and bear a sad and depressing autumn nothing says we can’t dream of our next...
Malta Diary Which country has the largest concentration of windmills in the world?
“Granite jaws that look down on fields of grain and devour them!” ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: In his poem ‘The Windmill’, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: “Behold! a giant am I!...
Why Four Young Brits Decided to Live & Work Remotely from the Canary Islands
“We live in this amazing place and the beach is just over the road” “The ethos here is work hard, play hard. We work during the week and...
SHELLY BEACH SNIPPETS No 128, NOVEMBER, 2020.
Patricia Newell-Dunkley – Photographs Reginald J. Dunkley www: Greetings from down under with glorious sunshine and summer fast approaching. Travel is rather tricky at the moment with...
Jeni on Drawing 4 – Drawing Around
When you think about it, drawing lines around things is really trying to capture an illusion. There are no lines around anything we see, only edges where one ‘thing’...
Britain’s Horrific Treatment of Chinese Labourers During World War 1.
How the Chinese helped the British and French to win the War, but were treated like Slaves. A hundred years ago the Great War ended and Memorial ceremonies have...
Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia
Nine years ago – I find that hard to believe but my Andalucia Explorer blog tells me so, I wrote ´It´s fifty years since Penelope Chetwode, wife of John Betjeman,...
Mumbai Memoir ~ All for a pot of curd!
The 21st century Mumbai buzzes with all the activities that a modern world city possesses. But besides it modern appeal, its ancient roots still reflects when the city celebrates...
Travel to Santa Helena Island with a cup of coffee – World Meanderings (n°103)
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny St. Helena Island is world famous for being Napoleon’s last residence and death place. But this tiny island lost in...
Malta Diary Venice in Malta? A Grand Canal Scheme that went awry – and left its unpleasant aftermath
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: How shattering when a grand scheme based on noble aims goes askew and leaves a bitter aftermath that continued to...
Taxi Noir: The Fifteen-Minute Village
Some folk are floating the concept of the “15-minute village”. With travel demonised, there’s growing support for people to stay at home and travel no further than fifteen minutes’...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 52 Le Jardin Majorelle – A Painters Triumph.
The fashionable came to see and be seen, almost as worthy as the official pieces of art that lay bold but simultaneously unassuming around them. Chic supercilious women strolling...
“Celestyal Cruises” offers a free travel insurance including COVID-19 cover – World Meanderings (n°101)
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Celestyal Cruises the world-renowned Greek cruises company proposes a free additional insurance including the COVID-19 cover for every booking made...
Trifle Slice
I’ve been thinking about creating this dish for some time. And Oh, what a success it’s turned out to be! Trifle Ingredients A plain sponge cake approx 300 g....
Malta Diary Touches of sanity in today’s eyesore concrete jungle -archaeological sites and buildings now Scheduled and cannot be destroyed or altered in any way
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: I have written it before and repeat, if my great grandparents and grandparents were to be resurrected today and placed anywhere in...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 51 The Wicked Burning
‘Remember, Remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot!’ Well, there is still plot in the nights terrifying logistics, plenty of gunpowder rammed into those exploding rockets, and...
Rachel´s Wanderings in Spain – Curtailed Again. New Restrictions for Bank Holiday Weekend
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...
Massenez’s eau-de-vie and liqueurs, trendier than ever – Meanderings through France n° 223
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 e/mail – Facebook: The sea is never far away in Malta and Gozo and is very much part of the DNA of its...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 50 Marrakesh – The Maze of Shadows
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...
Mumbai Memoir 137- Fiction time during lockdown!
Recently Mumbai has opened up on various fronts. Though Mumbai’s railway service is still not operational, people are moving around in buses & private vehicles for their work and...
“Le Blue Denim Gin”, the new gin born in Camargue – Meanderings through France n° 222
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny After years of testing imagining new recipes and different processes a French couple from Nimes have created a unique Mediterranean gin....
Taxi Noir: Behind the Silk Curtain
It’s fair to say that food plays a central role in my life. My working day is planned around meal times, and when I’m not working, I’m either eating...
A Visit to Allesley Park, Coventry
Ann Evans continues to explore Coventry’s parks. This week we visit Allesley Park. While many of us are not venturing much further than our own doorsteps at the...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 49 Morocco – High & Grounded
Need to see the layout of the world then grab an Atlas, but wish to be on top of the world then head for the Atlas range, one of...