Constantia Glen: enjoying someone else’s vineyard
Lunching in someone else's vineyard is a delightful experience. You get to admire the view, the rows of vines laid out with geomet ...
Fresh Coffee and Vintage Cars
I have been a regular visitor to South Africa. Initially it was to spend time with my sister - a banker who spent a decade in Joha ...
Dead White People’s Society
I recently experienced a curry fuelled, Alice in Wonderland afternoon, with a roomful of splendid eccentrics who wish to preserve ...
Happy Birthday Canada! Really.
Canada celebrates its 150th birthday this week. The Queen gets excited about these types of anniversaries. Australia and Canada ar ...
We’re up all night to get lucky
I hate early morning flights. I usually sleep through the alarm and miss them. A few years back I discovered that the best way to ...
Where to Martini in Colombo
Updated June 2017 Anytime someone visits Sri Lanka I get asked for a list of bars to visit in Colombo. Here's my current list. I ...
The Elections Are Over. Now What?
I don't know what to make of the results of the British elections. The chap who lost is considered to have won (the Brits, whose s ...
Picnic in a Shop with Ralph Lauren
The British are an island people with strange habits. One of them is to picnic inside the family car. A British family will drive ...
