26th May 2022 Setenil – troglodytes and tapas in Andalucia
Heading off-piste After hurtling along a semi-deserted road cutting across rural Andalucia (the A384 to be...
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23rd April 2022 SRI LANKA: NEGOMBO’S IDYLLIC WATERWAYS
Ready to ride From my hoteI it was an easy descent down stone steps to...
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12th April 2022 Madrid Fusion 2022 – 20 years on
Fusion of ideas 20 years of food-sharing! Not around a table but in vast halls...
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20th April 2020 Lockdown London: rediscovering nature & good food
It’s now been a month since our UK government announced lockdown, following belatedly in the...
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9th March 2020 Santander’s dragonfly arts centre – the Centro Botin
Ever since the Guggenheim burst onto the scene in 1997 to transform Bilbao, every city...
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24th February 2020 The tragedy of Idlib – then and now
Reading about nearly one million Syrian refugees being holed up in Idlib province, barred from...
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27th January 2020 Madrid Fusion 2020 – the shock of the new
One of Europe’s most celebrated gastro-gatherings: Madrid Fusion, comes round every January, alive and well...
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13th December 2019 Wadi Rum: desert, bedouins and big rocks
The last stop of my recent Middle Eastern foray was a desert tour of Wadi...
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28th November 2019 A balmy night in Aqaba
“To Aqaba!” was Lawrence of Arabia’s war-cry over a century ago, and which I was...
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13th November 2019 Another way into Petra, Jordan’s incomparable hotspot
Petra – a magical name of a place I’ve longed to see for decades, and...
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