“It’s really just a boring house inside,” said the concierge in our hotel when we asked him to book us tickets to see Gaudi’s Casa Mila in Barcelona last week. To be fair I don’t think he felt that the architecture itself was boring – it’s a curving Art Nouveau beauty with a courtyard at its centre […]
Oh, oh, the things I’ve seen. I’ve been going to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern pretty much since I came to London in 2007. If you’re not familiar, it’s a lone pub standing by the arches in Vauxhall, built on the site of the Pleasure Gardens which stood there for 200 years, offering Londoners leisure, pleasure, […]
Who are these indomitable-looking ladies in fur? And what are they up to? Looks to me like they might be channeling messages from the other side. There’s ectoplasm in the air. They are in fact having a seance, in one of the strangest, most mysterious places I’ve visited in a while. The picture was taken […]
Is the Great British Festival dead? Same old (very old) headliners, cash points behind every bush, barrista coffees and a ban on legal highs…. I’m not that old but I remember when the only respectable way of getting into Glastonbury was via a rope guarded by a Crustie, or through a tunnel that someone had […]
Just back from another summer holiday to Corfu, where we did our bit to re-liquidate the economy by buying a lot of Taverna dinners and reducing the feta cheese mountain. The pair of us being news junkies and lefties, we were worried about the crisis in Greece, and addicted to our daily sightings of the […]