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MR BIG NOSE – my stage comeback after a 30 year break. 23 Aug 2013 | 02:44 pm
‘And you should be VERY nervous, Andy and Terry, because the future of Big Nose Productions depends on you!’ ‘You look like Anthony Hopkins in ‘Silence of the Lambs’, says Mevrouw T. That’ll do. I’m ...
MY NEW PLAY – in the Sydney Opera House 19 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
Curse you, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton! How can you be so irresponsible, apparently chucking random words and incoherent stories into books with hastily scrawled drawings, and yet be so damn succe...
CIRCUM-LAKE-UTION – cycling round the Bodensee 17 Aug 2013 | 01:51 am
Will we have as much fun as the people in the picture? The Sydney Morning Herald recently published my article about our epic ride around Lake Constance on Europe’s most popular cycling route, so now...
RUSSIAN ART in The Hague 14 Aug 2013 | 10:50 am
Studio AES +F: Angels and Demons A regular sculpture event brings us down to Den Haag whenever it’s held. The lovely, leafy avenue known as Lange Voorhout hosts an outdoor exhibition, under the aegi...
HENRY MOORE IN AMSTERDAM – Rijksmuseum 13 Aug 2013 | 02:18 pm
Why is everyone ignoring me? To celebrate the reopening of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, the surrounding gardens are hosting a fabulous exhibition of Henry Moore’s sculpture. We don’t expect to see a bet...
VILLAGE SNAPSHOT – Safranbolu, Turkey 12 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
We could have done with a Turkish bath on a hot day. Some of our more enterprising fellow travellers managed to arrange it. Preserving historic villages hasn’t been a high priority for the Turks. Lif...
FASHION CRIMES ON THE CRIMEA – Sebastopol and Yalta 10 Aug 2013 | 09:51 am
There is plenty of history, most of it tragic, around Sebastopol and Yalta. The Peninsula was hotly contested in the Crimean War with absurd loss of life on all sides. These days they’re still squabb...
BALLET BUFFS BEHAVING BADLY – Odessa, Ukraine 8 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
One of the world’s great opera theatres. ‘Are you sure you want to go there?’ asks our cruise ship’s excursion organiser. ‘It’s a bit of a weird show, look, it’s got skulls in it. And maybe you won’t...
NESSEBAR or MESSY BAR? 2 Aug 2013 | 10:43 am
Nessebar, Bulgaria. ‘Some people call it not Nessebar, but Messy bar.’ Our guide Stefan is almost apologetic. And indeed the first impression is not promising. Were UNESCO being overgenerous when th...
WE ENTER UNCHARTED WATERS – 5-star cruising 27 Jul 2013 | 02:29 pm
Ever passed these luxury cruise ships and wondered who travels on them? This time it was us. Regular readers of this blog understand that Mevrouw T and I are two to three star people, seldom treated ...
