Holiday

As our enforced staycation continues (due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis), we headed to West Cork for the day, taking in a few towns on the way to our final stop in Bantry. There seemed […]

The COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent risk of humanity’s weakening and ultimate destruction by gangs of emancipated horses has meant that we are unable to fly off somewhere sunny for a well-earned break… so we’re going […]

A gentle start with Julian Barnes (author of loads of books I really like) and Paul Muldoon (Pulitzer Prize-winner for poetry) chatting about life in a very unstructured fashion. An excellent continuation of the day’s […]

11-12 noon: Dalrymple’s India. An hour of William Dalrymple presenting some highlights of the last five years of his work on the book “The Anarchy: The Fall of the Mughal Empire and the Rise of […]

Straight off the Dublin ferry at 5am, we made our way through the quiet streets towards Boris. We weren’t allowed to show up until early afternoon, but thankfully friends in Kildare were awake enough that […]

Can you have too much Vienna? I doubt it somehow, although you can certainly push your luck with its patisserie. Today we went to the Kunsthistoriches Museum, which was amazing. In addition to the priceless […]

We started the day with cakes from the hotel, then moved on to a proper buffet breakfast. Suitably fuelled, we went to the Wiener Eistraum, which is German for “sausage pain”. We skated there for […]

We got the tram to the train station from close to our hotel in Bratislava. The city’s main train station looks like it has been frozen in time to a great extent – the general […]