I boarded the good ship Queen Elizabeth for the last trip I took away from the little rented house in the Italian village Gabicce Monte. I was on a pilgrimage, traveling along the Adriatic coast from the little Gabicce-Cattolica harbour…
It wasn’t my fault. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I won’t do it again – well, not for a bit. A friend donated some home-laid eggs from his young hens and they just wouldn’t wait and…
“Ieri sera ho iniziato un corso di 20 settimane in lingua italiana presso l’Università del Sussex” – or, in plain English, last night I started a twenty week course in Italian at Sussex University which is only a five minute…
I was an excitable schoolboy living in exciting times and I must have had a thing about groups beginning with the letter B. There was The Beatles, of course, the band that turned me on, tuned me in and so…