I can’t believe it but Rome is dangerously close to edging Florence out of my list of favourite places in Italy. For a start, the food is cheaper and the people are better-dressed. They’re not as chic as the Milanese, but then who is? Milanese policewoman wear high-heeled boots for crying out loud. It must […]
Been doing some major sightseeing, mostly by walking everywhere. I think you get a better feel of a place by walking and seeing what the locals are up to. Plus, I like burnishing my map-reading skills. Google maps you say? Pah!, we’ll see how good that is when you get led through the Tiber rather […]
Dear readers, I am sorry that I have neglected you in a shameful fashion but I have been sunning myself in Rome. I couldn’t take the wretched cold one more minute so I managed to wangle a work/birthday/inspiration trip to Rome instead. It was glorious – it was warm and sunny and italian. From the […]
Kermit the Frog had that right. My favourite story of the week? The plastic-munching Coral. Scientists have discovered that the coral in the Pacific reefs, far from dying out rapidly due to pollution of the seas with plastic microbeads, have shown a preference for the wretched stuff as they appear to love its taste. They […]
A perfectly sunny, glorious London Sunday. Just when we had all given up on the weather for this year. England, England, quite contrary. I was staying in Twickenham which I now realise was a big mistake. Have you ever been to a place that gives you the heebie-jeebies? The last time it happened to […]
