– With Dr Susan Merrell
I admit to not knowing much about Bologna in northern Italy – until recently that is. I knew that Spaghetti Bolognaise was probably named such because it was from Bologna and that was about the sum total of my knowledge. As it turns out, the citizens of Bologna don’t use spaghetti in their cooking – […]
Ah memories. It’s been well over a decade since friend, Ora and I, walked the 70 kms of the beautiful Queen Charlotte Track on the northern tip of the southern island of New Zealand – from Ship Cove to Anakira. Here’s something I wrote back then: Sounds Wonderful The Blistered Foot Café sits on the […]
It was around seven years ago that I first discovered Arles. I was on a train from the Languedoc in south west France to the Cote D’Azur (The Riviera) in the south east to meet my brother at Cannes, where the annual film festival was in progress. One of the stops along the way – […]
Some people consider that a hotel is just somewhere to sleep and if it’s clean and the bed’s OK, then it’s OK – I’m not one of those. I’ve never been too good at roughing it for the sake of frugality alone. Having said that, I also have champagne taste on a beer budget…well… not […]
Summer in Provence means lavender – fields and fields of breathtaking swathes of mauve flowers waving in the summer breeze to the seasonal music of Provence – cicadas (or ‘cigales’ as they’re known in France.) Lavender flowers bloom in Provence during high summer – bursting into life anytime between June and August depending on weather […]
