Food and wine in Nice, Alba and Modena
It would have been nice, arriving in Nice, if my lease car had been what I’d ordered, but Renault Europe knew better and ‘upgraded’ me to...
top of page
Search
Andrea P
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
The Black Swan & Tommy Banks
It’s an hour’s drive from Everingham to Oldstead in Yorkshire, and Jerry, having spent his whole life in various spots along the way,...
Andrea P
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Views from the Vaucluse
I first visited the Vaucluse (department #84) in 1984, when my Parisian friends, Patrick and Edmee, had purchased a former Ashram,...
Andrea P
- Feb 9, 2021
- 10 min
Painting in Tuscany (September 2019)
An early start out of Lucca saw us in Certaldo by 8:45am at the dealership responsible for delivering Karen’s hire car for use during her...
Andrea P
- Oct 3, 2020
- 6 min
Syria - the Arab Spring (March 2011)
Now here's a funny thing - Syrians love soap operas! Especially during Ramadan when everyone's in abstinence mode. Sitting around the...
Andrea P
- Apr 1, 2020
- 13 min
Andalusia aboard Al Andalus
Hopefully, we were saving the best until last - a week-long train trip around Andalusia. So Bill and I headed off to the Alfonso XIII...
Andrea P
- Oct 4, 2016
- 16 min
Jordan: Amman - Jerash - Madaba - Petra
After settling into my room at the Kempinski Amman, I headed down to breakfast at 6.30 and tucked into a pair of fried cackleberries but...
Andrea P
- Oct 8, 2014
- 8 min
Persepolis Plus
The drive from Isfahan to Shiraz takes about six hours, across a mostly barren landscape, but it’s full of interest, nonetheless. There...
Andrea P
- Oct 1, 2014
- 6 min
To Isfahan
Fifty kilometres out of Hamadan is the Iron Age mound of Tepe hush-i-Jan. In the middle of a vast plain, it’s a stiff climb up to the...
Andrea P
- Oct 1, 2014
- 5 min
Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana)
It’s day four swathed in headscarf and shapeless garb and I’m over it already. But Iranian women have to live with these cleric-imposed...
Andrea P
- Oct 8, 2013
- 4 min
The Fairweather Range and Lituya Bay
A highlight of Alaska, Glacier Bay is good tourist stuff, but, as usual, I managed to get utterly sidetracked by a nearby attraction –...
Andrea P
- Oct 1, 2013
- 3 min
Life and Death in Kamchatka
The native Kamchadals are pretty plucky folk. The aboriginal peoples (there are about five different tribes, but let’s not go into...
Andrea P
- Oct 28, 2012
- 12 min
Out-running Sandy
The flight from Barcelona to NYC was uneventful, as was clearing customs at JFK. I checked into the NY Athletics Club – a marvellous...
Andrea P
- Oct 13, 2010
- 20 min
The Galapagos
After checking into the Quito Swissotel, I met up with Lynne and Ed at the bar at 6pm, with much laughter all round. Their friends Morris...
Andrea P
- Oct 11, 2006
- 11 min
Tripping around Corsica
Corsica was the one region of France that Edmee hadn’t visited, so we took Easyjet from Orly, picked up my trusty little Citroen 3 from...
Andrea P
- Oct 2, 2005
- 43 min
Sicily Won
It’s a quick flight from Naples to Palermo – 30 minutes, just time to have some blood orange juice – before disembarking into the heat...
Gallery
bottom of page