Reviews

Friends Like These

A Spy Among Friends Philby and the great betrayal Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury, 2014) Do we need another book about the Cambridge spies? Surely...

Friends Like These

A Spy Among Friends Philby and the great betrayal Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury, 2014) Do we need another book about the Cambridge spies? Surely...

Alpine Adventure- part III

Part III Sunday July 17. 2016- Frankfurt am Main, Germany We were up early today at 5 A.M., our Circadian rhythms all askew. We watched the British...

Alpine Adventure- part II

Saturday, July 16 th - Frankfurt Am Main, Germany We were up early, eager to explore Frankfurt. Its history dates back to the time of the Romans...

Les Mots by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

I picked up this book in an Oxfam shop during one of my many travels around the country. It caught my eye because at the time I was looking for...

The Passford House Hotel - Leave Left Retrieve Right

The Passford House Hotel for eating at is one of those rare gems of hospitality that is worth mining for in the lanes and byways of The New Forest...

The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward

The Last of the President’s Men by Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2015. ISBN 978 – 1 – 4711 – 5650 – 2 (Hardback £25.00) 291pp, or 978 –...

Danger Pay - Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East 1984 - 94

Danger Pay – Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984 – 94 FROM THE COLLECTION OF NOTES AND DIARIES ACCUMULATED BY CAROL SPENCER MITCHELL...

Torremolinos 2

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Holiday in Torremolinos. I come here to write (partly), for which I need peace and quiet, but as the holiday nears the end my wife and I cannot decide which tours to go on!

Buffalo's Outer harbor

Buffalo’s Outer Harbor It was another sunny, glorious Saturday in the Big B. We loaded up our bikes onto the bike rack and set off for the outer...