Me in a distillery. A fatal combination, you might think. Luckily whisky’s not really my tipple. Although having soaked in the smells and the history during our single malt-scented tour of Oban Distillery (http://www.discovering-distilleries.com/oban/), I’d become a bit of a convert, in principle if not totally in palate. (more…)
Category: travel
South America Exposed
Tate Modern is currently running a photographic exhibition, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera (see http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/exposure/default.shtm). I visited it the other weekend and found it fascinating and thought-provoking.
Wet and Wuthering Weekend
‘Nelly, I am Heathcliff!’ Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (more…)
Moorish Castles and Wheelie Bags
Ostensibly, I was in Portugal for a wedding. A friend from San Francisco had invited me to be her ‘plus one’ at what turned out to be an exceptionally indulgent wedding in Sintra, a small, historic town just outside Lisbon. We dipped in to check out Sintra’s attractions on our way to the wedding venue from Lisbon and again on our way back. (more…)
Gooster on the Loose 