Accommodation is mostly in three-star and some four-star hotels

Accommodation is mostly in three-star, and some four-star, hotels.” Leta Bester, who runs the London Wine Academy (0181-876 7660) takes groups of 10 people to the winelands of the Cape, then on to game reserves in Botswana and Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls. Wine educator Wink Lorch (01494 677728) runs wine weekends and longer breaks in the [...]

That the BMW 5-Series is the leader in its class is something of a motoring magazine

That the BMW 5-Series is the leader in its class is something of a motoring magazine truism. Whenever a new executive saloon enters the market, the Beemer is always wheeled out to dispatch it in a head-to-head. Over the last few months, in comparison, Alfa Romeo’s new 166 has been revealed as cramped and under-developed; [...]

It’s barren in there a villager told to me as he sold me a jar of wild strawberries

“It’s barren in there,” a villager told to me as he sold me a jar of wild strawberries. “That’s it! After the strawberries there’s nothing – no bilberries, no cranberries, no cloudberries and no mushrooms.”On the other hand, in this part of Russia the misfortune that has befallen the human population since the collapse of [...]

We knocked on their bedroom door but were swiftly ordered back to bed

We knocked on their bedroom door but were swiftly ordered back to bed. We had disturbed a couple of massive hangovers: my parents lived a permanent cocktail party My brother persisted “Boatie!”, he cried He was all of two years old “Ian’s Boatie!”, I meekly repeated. My father appeared at the door in his silk [...]

We were then invited into a small room by a Chinese woman

We were then invited into a small room by a Chinese woman whose beautiful, incandescent smile disguised the fact that she was older than my mother She proudly showed us her telephone I told her that my mother had once lived next door. She seemed to empathise with my excitement about being there. The Chinese [...]

Mutual suspicions between the north and south remain intense and there is

Mutual suspicions between the north and south remain intense, and there is no foreseeable prospect of the island being reunited.. You’re sitting on a barstool with a terrible dilemma: should you have another vodka Martini or move on to a sea breeze? The person behind the bar has a more complicated dilemma. He, or she, [...]

THE PATRON SAINT of armchair sports viewers has to be Rodney Pampling who like lots of us spent Thursday afternoon

THE PATRON SAINT of armchair sports viewers has to be Rodney Pampling, who, like lots of us, spent Thursday afternoon slumped in front of the telly watching the golf. The only difference was that he was clocking his rivals failing abjectly to knock him off the top of the Open leaderboard. The principal delight of [...]

Race officials have promised to be particularly vigilant

Race officials have promised to be particularly vigilant.Cleland’s rivals will include Will Hoy, the 1991 champion, who is making his seasonal debut in an independently run Renault Laguna. Hoy was a BTCC regular from 1991 until the end of 1998 when he was dropped by Ford.. JASON MATTHEWS will be rewarded for dedication when he [...]

They have waited and waited while the company has stalled and delayed she said

They have waited and waited while the company has stalled and delayed,” she said.. A WOMAN motorist was jailed for 12 months yesterday after she admitted running over and killing a mother-of-two after a road-rage attack. “The claimants in this case have shown enormous faith in British justice. A government health inspector who visited Penge, [...]

Eclipses of the Sun occur when the Moon passes in front of the Sun

Eclipses of the Sun occur when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. It is an amazing cosmic coincidence that the two discs of the Moon and Sun appear the same size in the sky – but while the Sun is 400 times bigger than the Moon, it’s also 400 times further away. It [...]

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