by Ian Ferris | Jun 28, 2018
It’s been a hot week in Cornwall. Temperatures here are the same as in Florida. The car says it’s 33 degrees so too sunny and hot for fishing but I’ve brought my rod and I’m keen to fling a few hooks at some trout on a lazy warm Cornish afternoon. I’m not a great...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 27, 2018
When we go camping nowadays we don’t bother with the paraphernalia of cooking, stove, stand, gas cylinder, pots, pans, utensils, washing-up bowl, cutlery, seasoning, et al. Our children are grown, we can eat where and when we like, so we just take an electric kettle,...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 24, 2018
When we visit a new city we like to take a sightseeing bus around it first and even though we’ve visited Edinburgh a number of times before we decided we’d walked enough at the Highland Show the day before so we hopped on a hop on-hop off city sightseeing bus and...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 23, 2018
An early morning departure and just over an hour’s flight later and with the show ground just a few minutes walk from Edinburgh Airport Arrivals we were eating a bacon sandwich and drinking a welcome coffee inside the ground just before 9am, in beautiful warm Scottish...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 19, 2018
Simpson’s in the Strand is one of London’s historic and iconic dining venues which I like very much, or at least, I did. I’ve been going there for years. Most of my career, in fact. I last went there on the day I retired, with the family. Entering a hallway through a...
