This week I went to 3 different places and accessibility has never before felt more like a mission from the pages of a James Bond novel (or maybe I was too caught up in the Sky TV depiction of Ian Fleming) First was a visit to the private members club House of St. Barnabas –…
In the latest stage of her fabulous Indochinese journey, Ann’s spending her time relaxing on the beach and exploring the wonderful city of Hoi An. Here’s what she’s discovered – history, accessibility and charm. The Medieval city of Hoi An survived the Vietnam war by a fluke of nature: Founded in the 15th Century it…
For once I went back to somewhere I’d reviewed before for a second visit – Tom’s Kitchen in King’s Rd. It was for a quiet birthday celebration of one of my Lieutenants and I can say it was as good as the last time but for the fact we had a table tucked in by…
Here are five ways people have found to shake things up and do something a little different this pancake day. River Cottage Pancake You would expect something impressive and a little bit different from a Shrove Tuesday at the River Cottage and that’s exactly what they’ve done, providing not one but two alternative pancake recipes from Gill…
Ann’s latest postcard from Indochina is from the city of Hue. Without further ado: Successive Emperors built a walled Citadel on the banks of the Perfume River to celebrate their power and influence, lavishing the city of Hue with sumptuous architecture. The people of Hue even have their own cuisine: one of the Emperors commanded…
Thanks to The American Lieutenant for this review of Trattoria Al Sile in Treviso: We were on our way back to Treviso airport after skiing in Arabba, in the Dolomites and a friend of ours, an artist from Malta called Pawlu Carabonara, advised us to have lunch at this restaurant. We booked (advisable) a table for…
The last couple of weeks have been manic with people waking up from hibernation and needing everything yesterday. So I missed last week’s wrap but here’s what’s been happening: In our last wrap I mentioned I was going to Arsenal to see Man Utd and I’d arranged to go for a pre-match meal. It was…
The American Lieutenant has supplied us with this review of the accessibility at Le Grand Colbert in Paris. Close to the Louvre, Le Grand Colbert is named after a famous minister of the Sun King, Louis XIV, who owned the building and was something of a seventeenth century foodie. The brasserie is now such a…
It’s time for another issue of our popular series of postcards from Indochina. Ann, our itinerant access expert, has now moved on from Cambodia and into neighbouring Vietnam. She’s headed straight for Ho Chi Minh City – the metropolis formerly known as Saigon – ‘Nam’s biggest city: How much more evocative is the name Saigon than Ho…