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 →

La Bohème Berlin

On a Thursday night, I was in a gastronomic fix. In the hipster district of Kreuzberg in Berlin, otherwise known 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 →

The Hanseatic Sojourn – III

  Bremen was the last city on the trail. The smallest land in Deustchland the Free and Hanseatic city of Continue reading →

The Hanseatic Sojourn – II

  The train to Lübeck transported me to the land of marionettes and marzipan. I took off to the city Continue reading →

The Hanseatic Sojourn – I

  I was on the sets of a film. A heroine treading the cobbled stones of the alleys, flanked by Continue reading →

A Sardinian Saga

  Vendettas and violence have long vanished from the inland villages of Sardinia. Or so I was told as I Continue reading →