My nephew, Alastair, and his wife, Kathryn, are just setting up for their first season with their very own ski-ing chalet in France – they have spent the last two years learning the ropes running chalets for other people. Their new chalet has two kitchens and as they are both …
Travel
Yurting…
I have just been staying in a yurt. A very fine yurt, tucked into a clearing in the wonderfully wild, woolly and verdant garden belonging to old friends of the late David Fleming, author of that extraordinary blueprint for a sustainable future, Lean Logic. I had never seen, …
Fresh Air Fund – helping New York’s inner city children
You may remember that a couple of months ago I posted about the Fresh Air Fund charity that arranges holidays for inner city New York children from low-income families out in the country with host families. For any US readers of this blog – I have jsut had an update from the …
Gluten-free holiday planning…
As the rain continues to lash outside my window – I continue to think about holidays – inspired this time by the arrival on my desk of Maria Ann Roglieri's Gluten-free Guide to France.... Maria is a professor of Italian at St Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, NY but – more …
Thinking of holidays?…..
Well, as I sit here and watch the rain pour down on a typical cold, grey English June day, I certainly am... But not of a sun-drenched beach – instead I am dreaming of a snowy, but sunny, mountain. Why? Well, because my nephew Alastair and and his wife, Kathryn, have just 'gone …