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French wine and the danger of a warmer climate

Posted in Travelling, acclimatizing, tagged , , , , on September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Christine Vernay was on holiday in Missouri when she got the call. It was August 12 2003 and the French vineyard owner was not due to return home for 10 days; the harvest on her Rhône valley estate would begin in late September. But then a friend from Condrieu called her husband’s mobile phone. “The [...]

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St Pancras and Brussels Midi

Posted in Travelling on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last weekend I escaped to the Netherlands for a flying visit to see my parents. The utter scene-shift, from a rainswept London full of tiredness and adulthood to the sparkling cold sunlight that greeted me on Saturday morning in the Hague, with the breakfast table already laid and my parents reading the paper and making [...]

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Praia da Luz

Posted in Thinking, Travelling on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The tiny seaside resort of Praia da Luz in southern Portugal seems utterly unsuited to the magnitude of the story that has unfolded here.New-build villas with terracotta roofs and palm trees; cheap and cheerfulnewsagents flogging postcards, beachballs and inflatable sharks; a sandy,beautiful golden beach across which a few families attempt valiantlyto gain some enjoyment from [...]

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Europe’s Greenest City

Posted in Thinking, Travelling on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Four out of five EU citizens inhabit metropolitan areas. So where’s Europe’s greenest city? Likely suspects include Reykjavic in Iceland, Malmo in Sweden and Barcelona in Spain, all of whom were quick off the mark in instigating radical green reform. As the green city concept develops political cache, other metropolii are catching up, and nowadays [...]

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