The Smuggler’s Cornwall

The Cornish landscape, in my fanciful mind, has been branded with swashbuckling smugglers, hidden coves, stormy seas and vast swathes Continue reading →

Let Them Eat Naked Cake

  A century before Marie Antoinette was born, Marie-Thérèse, the wife of Louis XIV, uttered the words “Qu’ils mangent de Continue reading →

In Starbucks Country

A fishy kind of theatre was underway in the Pacific Northwest. Dungeness Crabs, royalty amongst the crustacean species in the Continue reading →