“With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face, comes from the West Country where the birds sing bass” Nick Cave We breakfasted in a much quieter dining room than the morning before. The W.I. had moved on to pastures new. We then gathered ourselves up and caught a cab to the railway station. Soon we…
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Travel: Druv – Sussex Day Trip
“And you may pook and you may shove but a Sussex pig he wunt be druv” old regional saying Today I was to get a day to myself as we had agreed that mum would stay in Tottenham to rest while I ventured out on my own to Lewes in Sussex to tour Harvey’s. We…
Travel: ROAST – London Day 4
“There are thin lines of creamy fat running through the maroon flesh like a road map; a thicker layer wrapped around the outside and here and there oval islands of it, the colour of creme fraiche, set among the meat. This fat is crisp to the touch and plentiful; it is what will baste the…
Travel: Milk of Human Kindness – London Day 3
“I think that if you say Cheddar is one of our most generous gifts to humanity, people might consider you a bit odd –” Ned Palmer We started the day with a family breakfast of waffles at Mary’s. Then we set off under London on the tube Tate Modern our destination. We emerged next to…
Travel : Penalty – Chiang Mai Day 3
“Over the next two days, Mrs. Smegma persecuted me mercilessly, while the others, I suspected, scouted evidence for her. She reproached me for not turning the light off in my room when I went out, for not putting the lid down in the toilet when I’d finished, for taking the colonel’s hot water – I’d…
Travel : Whanau – Chiang Mai Day 2
“Khrxbkhrạw pĕn h̄nụ̀ng nı p̄hl ngān chînxek k̄hxng ṭhrrmchāti” ~The family is one of nature’s masterpieces~ Thai proverb I started the day heading out in search of coffee from the place I went to the day before. When I got there it was closed and curiously the hours said it should have been closed the…
Travel : Luddite – Chiang Mai Day 1
“The true test of any hotel, as you well know, Diane, is that morning cup of coffee”Agent Cooper Twin Peaks The new day started with a fresh , if not entirely new experience. Despite growing up on instant coffee I haven’t had any in over 20 years. When traveling I will always opt for the…
Travel : Departures
“It’s the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do” Tony Kushner – Angels in America I am sitting in bed writing this in a hotel just outside the moat and fortified wall of the old city of Chiang Mai. Walled cities are going to be a reoccurring theme on…
Raise the Dawn 