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La Calcotada is not just a culinary event; it's a vibrant celebration welcoming the arrival of spring in Catalonia, centred around the...

The Bridge over the Drina showing the meeting place at the Kapia half way across Ivo Andric standing by the Bridge over the Drina...

I remember being deeply impressed many years ago by reading Flaubert's Madame Bovary, published in 1856. I thought then, and still do...

I've been reading John Buchan's 39 Steps again, which I've done numerous times since I first encountered it as a boy. It's an exciting...

We are all passing into the darkness, that twilight zone, where death is approaching.

The excellent historie of the Merchaunte of Venyse!

The Eroica was the first piece of music which really got through to my uncertain, adolescent self.

Dedicated to the memory of my oldest friend, Tony Smith (Sept 1944 - Dec 2022).

Holt is still my ‘place to go to’ in Norfolk, and I have grown to know and love the north Norfolk coastline.

Britten’s War Requiem is about the tragedy and futility of war.