“I don’t golf. Or is it I don’t play golf? I don’t even know how to describe the fact that I don’t play golf. I don’t putt, I don’t chip, I don’t drive. I don’t even drive cars.”
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Death in Venice at the ENO
One of the remarkable things about Thomas Mann’s novelle, Death in Venice, is the juxtaposition between the text’s concision and...
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Ventnor or Bust!
“Harry?” “Jim… Jim?… Jim! Just give me a moment – let me go indoors so I can hear you properly. Of all the times...
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Once Upon a Salop Time
I met a traveller from an antique land who said, somewhat to my surprise, ‘Have you been to Shrewsbury?’ To be honest, I’d never...
The Explorer
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Guerlain Spa: Edinburgh
I arrive at the Guerlain Spa located in Edinburgh’s Waldorf Astoria Caledonian Hotel on a...
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Capital Cool: The Ampersand Hotel
Being a lover of punctuation, The Ampersand Hotel had me at the name. The squiggly ‘and’...
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The Grove: Where Herts Meets Hogwarts
The Grove hotel in Hertfordshire is so vast that I actually discovered faults in my footwear while...
The Foodie
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Mandarin Meets Big Apple: Asiate
It’s times like these I’m thankful I have no fear of heights, for there’s no place...
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Spitbank Fort: A Sunday Lunch Experience
How far would you travel for a decent Sunday lunch? One hundred miles is the furthest I’ve gone....
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Imli Street: The Indian Job
It’s late on Wednesday when the phone goes. It’s Foodie Ed. The conversation goes something...
The Culturist
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Rutherford & Son
This Northern Broadsides revival of Githa Soweby’s 1912 play, Rutherford & Son, appears at...
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George Bellows: Modern American Life
Those taken with the colour and ebullience of Martin Scorsese’s 2002 epic, “Gangs of New York”,...
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A Venice Art Diary
Gallery curator and international art dealer, Jean-David Malat, gives us a personal tour through...
