My first drone flight and I get a sea bass!
A lovely sea bass with a North African stuffing. Onion, Garlic, Harissa, Ras el Hanout and Zaatar.
Screaming quietly
Travel & Memories
You couldn’t eat fresher fish than this!
Our neighbour, Glen and his daughter, Jennifer were walking around the marina when they saw a fishing boat coming in through the lock gates. Jennifer asked the fishermen if they’d caught anything. They had and she could have some if she wanted. Glen called me …
VILLAGE HOLIDAY
Collo (Algeria) On the first morning following our very late arrival at Limni in late July 1977, Nikos’s mother and sister prepared us a lovely breakfast of milky coffee, freshly baked bread, local honey, ripe tomatoes and feta cheese which I was tasting for the …
Away with the ferries…
A three-day coach ride from London to Greece, crossing many countries including the former Yugoslavia and arriving at the lovely seaside village of Limni on the island of Evia. We left London Victoria Bus Station early in the morning. The coach was full. Students, tourists, …
Athens (Greece) via Darlington
Nikos, my Greek friend took a year out from Sunderland Poly following the sinking of M.V. Chaton in November 1977 and the drowning of three sailors including the affable cook, Michalis. He came back in late June in a rickety old Land Rover he had …
The Cruel Sea
Photograph courtesy of https://www.philippe-ships.com/casualties/chaton-urrugne-1977.html In last week’s edition of Life in the Kitchen, I remembered M.V. Chaton, the ship I had worked on during my 1977 summer holidays with my Greek friend, mature student, Nikos. After a couple of months in the port of Brest …