Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
There’s a fascinating article in Granta about the web habits of highly effective people. Being a literary tome, these people are all journalists, writers and bloggers, which suits me fine. Novelist A.L. Kennedy says: “I don’t blog or Facebook. If I want to write, I’d rather do it to some kind of definable end.” Wise [...]
London is a fabulous place for a holiday – it’s a world capital brimming with everything from the world’s best museum to some of the most exciting rock venues. Unfortunately it’s also one of the most expensive cities in the world. Visiting the British capital is guaranteed to take a chunk of change out of [...]
Summer is here early in London. There are green leaves and flowers all over town, we’ve enjoyed beautiful sunshine for days on end, everyone is out enjoying picnics in the park, the pubs are doing a brisk trade in cider and Pimms (one of the quintessentially English signs of summer). It’s actually unseasonally hot – [...]
It was Indian and Sri Lankan this week at Leiths but before I tantalise your tastebuds with descriptions of the yummy food, please permit me a short rant. If you don’t live in London, you might want to skip the next paragraph. Leiths used to be fairly centrally located in Kensington. Unfortunately they needed bigger [...]
I am keen to try out more healthy and diet-friendly recipes and also expand my knowledge of vegetarian cookery. I also love lasagne and believe that a good vegetarian lasagne is an essential dish in any cook’s repertoire. This recipe for lentil, mushroom and ricotta lasagne comes from The Low GI Vegetarian Cookbook by Dr [...]
Probably the best movie I’ve seen so far this year is Persepolis. It’s based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi and it’s an autobiographical account of growing up in Tehran and Vienna during the Iranian Revolution. The movie basically animates Satrapi’s drawings, so it has a very distinctive style and it’s mostly in black [...]
Spring is well and truly here in the northern hemisphere, which means that we suddenly have a whole lot more fresh, locally grown food to choose from. Here in the UK we are coming into asparagus season, which is very exciting. English asparagus has a worldwide reputation for its succulent texture and strong, fresh flavour. [...]
Until recently, the only people arguing against expansion of Heathrow Airport were protest groups campaigning against climate change or the increased flight noise west of London. Following the debacle that was the opening of Terminal 5, the tide now seems to be shifting. Bob Ayling, the chief executive of British Airways from 1996 to 2000, [...]
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