Today I’m starting a new series about my local area and its myriad restaurants and bars. Starting with Mai Thai Deli. This new Thai restaurant is in a lovely new Wandsworth development called the Ram Quarter. It appeared during Lockdown and obviously had a delayed opening. And I must have walked past it a hundred […]
So today we’re six days out of Lockdown 2. There’s a lot of shopping going on (and not just by me). It’s like everyone fears they are going to be locked up again soon so they’re trying to get all their Christmas shopping in. Seriously, yesterday I saw a guy carrying about 15 shopping bags. I’ve […]
Travel is a distant dream in these days of Corona. So today, as a special treat, I’m going to take you far, far away to the beautiful land of Thailand. The second half of my twin-centre journey (which I enjoyed last September) is to the stunning resort that is The Sarojin in Khao Lak just […]
Today is day 25 of my Lockdown. It started in South Africa where we spent 17 days in Cape Town, kind of in limbo, until managing to get seats on a repatriation flight to London on April 14. What an eerie experience that was, through two deserted airports with everyone wearing masks. Now I’m settled […]
Enjoying Thai food at Busaba Today’s rainy summer day started with an amble down Oxford Street. The street of myriad shops, frenzied tourists getting in their retail therapy and streams of London buses slowly making their way. I love a bit of time in Oxford Street, but a word of advice – go in the […]
I fell in love with Thailand on my first visit, many years ago and that love affair grows every time I return. It’s very appropriately called the Land of Smiles – there’s always plenty of smiling going on – which is extremely catching. This was my third visit to Phuket (my first to Khaolak), which makes it […]