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Thank you, Keesha and thanks Daisy. Your kind words are very much appreciated. Rain! Rain! And more rain! That was the prospect that faced us when we awoke and took a look out the window on Boxing Day morning. This isn’t treated as a public holiday in France (or Monaco) so we had been planning...

My wife, whose tipple is invariably gin and tonic, has discovered Hendricks' Gin. She also discovered that Fever Tree tonic goes well with this brand. You might find that instead of lime or lemon, a couple of slices of cucumber complete the drink.

Thank you once again, Keesha, for your kind thoughts. Having visited Canada only once, I can assure you that we found it spectacularly beautiful and having the friendliest and kindest people we have encountered in one country. We will be returning sometime as we left a little bit of our hearts...

After going to the Monaco Grand Prix in 1969 to write a story for a US Army magazine, I promised my wife that I would take her there for a holiday. Last December I finally kept that promise - 58 years later. I had reserved a room at the Fairmont Hotel for the Christmas period, a hotel famous for...

Lamont - Dare I say that Band of Brothers was not taken from Beevor's book, but from Stephen E. Ambrose's work of the same name. Sorry if I sound a bit pedantic.;) PS Thanks for your message.

If nobody minds me turning to a different category of book I have just finished reading D-Day through German Eyes, Book 1 and Book 2. My father served on board HMS Frobisher which was among the support ships on D-Day. Frobisher was moored alongside HMS Roberts as part of the mass of ships whose...

Thank you, Daisy, for the likes you have given my posts. Much appreciated. Once we were berthed we disembarked quickly and were on our way to the hotel. We passed the restaurant where we had eaten previously but it was dark and obviously closed for the evening. Nevertheless, when we checked into...

We checked into the Ibis Hotel in Greenwich and took a break for a couple of hours before heading out to look for a restaurant to have dinner. There is a very good Indian restaurant nearby where we had eaten on a previous visit. It turned out to still serve very good food and we enjoyed a...

The time for our trip to the UK for our grandson’s passing out parade to mark the end of his basic training and the beginning of his new career as a professional soldier was soon upon us. We were all going to meet up at our hotel in Woking the day before except, of course, our grandson who would...

We have a couple of trips lined during the next six months or so. Next week we shall be driving to England as our grandson has joined the army after a determined campaign to lose weight and get fit. He is coming to the end of his basic training and we are going to attend his passing out parade...

Wishing you all the best for a good outcome. Keep fighting!

For dinner that evening we returned to the L’Air du Temps. I was greeted with great solicitude but I was able to assure the owner that I felt 100% better. And I ordered the Boeuf bourguignon. Feeling a lot brighter than the evening before, I savoured my whisky and studied the wine list as we...

Even though my main hobby is cooking I don't usually make desserts, but faced with your problem here's something I would try. Feel free to make any adjustments (if you think they're good you might like to post your changes on here). Mix some plain cocoa with a little of your sweetener of choice...

Political interlude over and it's back to the travelling. The date for Jackie’s operation soon came around. I drove her to the hospital during the afternoon of the day prior to her surgery, checked her in, noted the things she needed that she had forgotten and was duly thrown out of her room by...

Thank you, jay. It wouldn't have been such a blow to us if we had been allowed a vote - but of course we are regarded as tainted because we have lived with foreigners too long. Yesterday, a Brexiter called us traitors.

Today, just before lunch, a van from our town hall pulled up outside. Jackie and I were just leaving for lunch at our local Indian restaurant and Jackie was standing outside the front door. A man climbed out of the van and walked up our front path carrying two brown envelopes. With a broad smile...

Well, you can edit any of your posts, as I've done quite often. But deleting them entirely is a different matter, never having to do that yet. If you look at the bottom of your post you will see three choices - Edit, Delete or Report. I've only ever used the first one.

As lunchtime approached we decanted ourselves into the restaurant, also dismally decorated in dark brown - walls, tables, counters. We had a drink while perusing the menus, finally deciding that we couldn’t visit Russia without at least once trying the Beef Stroganoff. The service wasn’t...

And so the next morning we awoke to our penultimate day on our ship. We would be disembarking the next day but not returning home as we had taken the St Petersburg extension that was offered with our reservations. Our morning was free but after breakfast Jackie adjourned to the Panorama bar for...

A busy, busy day with two outstanding excursions. The first was to the Catherine Palace, named because it was originally a summer palace for Empress Catherine the First. The second, at 1.45 p.m., was a comprehensive tour of St. Petersburg. The Catherine Palace is situated in a district...