Having cleared out my wardrobe of winter clothes, there were gaping spaces just crying out to be filled, so we went shopping. Here’s what I picked up.
In Benetton, I had to wait for 90 minutes to pay for a summer dress for my daughter. There was no queue, but there was no one to take […]
If you’re in Birmingham, UK, this Sunday, why not try … competitive eating?
Gag me with a spoon!
Check out the “Bib sheet” of champion speed eater Sonya Thomas.
“I can eat anything I want and never seem to gain a pound!” she giggles.
Word of the day: bulimia
!@#$%^&*()_+
I had an orgiastic 36 hours in Paris last weekend and […]
Rome is not as cosmopolitan a city as London or Paris, and almost the only obviously non-Italians in public view are windscreen cleaners, newspaper sellers and informal Prada sales reps, ever ready to scoop up their street wares in a sheet and leg it when the lookout signals police approaching. Yet Italy is the main […]
A student of mine from two years back was training to become a sommelier. His day job was at the help desk of Oracle Corporation here in Rome but he was sick of dealing with clients whining about poor customer support. How he longed to e-mail back, “RTFM before you waste my time!” How he […]
Appearances can be deceptive: that blue sky turns hazy at midday, with lovely orange-pink sunsets around six. All thanks to the incredibly high levels of traffic pollution. People have been complaining of sore throats and itchy eyes and now we know why. In The Dark Heart of Italy, Tobias Jones claims that Italy has the […]
Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
Currently resident in Dakar, Senegal.
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