Hints and tips:
...Reliable domestic ovens meant being able to cook hefty, low-intervention things even when the whole household was in church....
...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...Coffee-Bike at St Paul’s Cathedral Warwick Lane, London EC4M 8AD Good for: Experiencing a London landmark Not so good for: Quiet contemplation....
...I recommend a glass of one of Tschida’s wines, a producer in Austria’s Burgenland, and a fried chicken sandwich from Poulette, the bar’s takeaway sandwich shop right next door....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Behind her was a clip of chickens in her suburban run in California. The foxes beside me had to be restrained....
...Dancing at Lughnasa National Theatre (olivier), London The National Theatre’s beautiful new staging of Dancing at Lughnasa opens with a literal trip down memory lane....
...At the bar, there are snacks on offer — not cheap — including chicken and chorizo bites, truffled mac and cheese croquettes, and crispy squid....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...At the bottom of the valley lies a cluster of granite-built houses around a pepper-pot church: the small Spanish village that for 23 years has been my stamping ground....
...Later, we strolled along the silent waterfront, then turned up a lane between the backyards of a couple of houses, finally coming to a field hemmed in by fruit trees and animal pens....
...One director I worked with maintained that going to the theatre should be like going to church: all uncomfy seats, troubling introspection and definitely no interval G&Ts....
...Fatt Pundit (Tottenham Court Road station) 6 Maiden Lane, London WC2E 7NA Good for: Contemporary Indian-Chinese dishes Not so good for: Traditional Indian or traditional Chinese FYI: Chinese is India...
...From the garden I made sorrel omelette, courtesy of the great Elizabeth David, and chicken with green rosemary and yoghurt stuffed under its elastic skin....
...“The DFDS lane is free, look!” he said (we talked cab-to-cab on hands-free mobiles)....
...After the pandemic hit, the Rue de Rivoli was closed to cars and turned into a cycling street with four bike lanes....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...The exhibition is taking place at the church of San Lorenzo, whose origins date back to the ninth century....
...Did you console me outside the church when mine said: “You don’t mind if I don’t stay for the lunch?” This is quite a lot to bring to any picnic....
...It has five finger holes, with a V-shaped notch for the mouthpiece....
...Muf managed to maintain the complex layers of the site, demarcating the shape of the church on the earth, leaving the old tombstones and adding structures and stones (some fragments of the old church) to...
...We bought a dilapidated farmhouse at the end of a sunken lane on the banks of the Winniford river . From where I work, I can see a thin “V” in the hills leading to the beach at Seatown....
...With central Berlin empty, officials have experimented with making Friedrichstrasse pedestrian only, widening sidewalks for restaurants and — this being Germany — adding bike lanes and potted trees....
...V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7 (vam.ac.uk). The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, W1 (thewolseley.com)...
...Mani Peninsula Pamela Goodman We parked just beyond the village of Stavri where the narrow lane peters out into a dusty turning circle almost at the cliff’s edge....
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