Saturday 19th November Saturday morning dawned murky and horrible, so yet again the motorcycles were postponed. It was going to take a miracle to get them out at this rate. They were supposed to be racing on Saturday afternoon and hadn’t even qualified yet. Another attempt was scheduled for the afternoon, after all the other…
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Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 6
Friday 18th November Again the day was mostly taken up with the motor racing, which won’t of course come as the slightest surprise to anyone who knows me. This time we were out at Sao Francisco at the”green house”2, a house that was bought by the government to stop development there. In its time it’s…
Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 5
Thursday 17th November Thursday wasn’t too early a start for anybody – unless theoretically the 45th Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix was any concern of yours. I say theoretically because it was very quickly obvious that whatever practice and qualifying sessions were going to happen, the bikes would not be among them. The sheer amount of…
Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 4
Wednesday 16th November Wednesday we didn’t intend achieving much though we did have to go and collect the long lens from the locker in the press centre (my fault for leaving it there and not thinking that I would need it on Thursday morning and wouldn’t necessarily want to go all the way to the…
Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 3
Tuesday November 15th Another good night’s sleep and I was starting to feel altogether more human – amazing! Who knew the best way to avoid jetlag was to stay awake for 37 hours straight then switch to local time immediately on arrival?! Anyway we opted for a trip over to Coloane this time, just to…
Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 2
Monday November 14th Monday morning wasn’t anywhere near as painful as it could have been for some odd reason and when the alarm went off at 9 am we both got up cheerfully enough and wandered down to breakfast. The IFT breakfast’s are not the biggest spread you’ll ever find but – and this is…
Travel 2011 – Hong Kong, Macau, Day 1
Time to blog (or even ramble I think) about the 2011 Macau trip (and time for my audience to run away screaming perhaps). Anyway… Saturday November 12th/Sunday November 13th We set off late on Saturday evening, flying out at 21:05 with those very fine folk from Air New Zealand. Now long haul flying is never…
Food 2011 – Recipes (Oxtail with Rioja and Chorizo)
Saturday, 8th October 2011 – Recipes (Oxtail with Rioja and Chorizo) Sometimes you have to dig into your cookery books, especially when you have as many as I do… I cooked this for one of our weekend meals. It was amazingly tasty… Oxtail with Rioja and Chorizo Ingredients: For the initial cooking 3 tbsp olive…
Food 2011 – Recipes (Jam! Lots of Jam!)
I’m up to the armpits (not literally, thankfully) in greengage jam now! 25 jars of the stuff after someone at work gave me a massive bag of greengages. It’s amazing how sticky you can get just trying to make something as simple as jam. Now, the question is what to do with all of it!?
Travel 2011 – Nurburg, Adenau, Jezus-Eik, Germany, Belgium
Thursday, 30th June/Monday, 4th July 2011 – Nurburg, Adenau, Jezus-Eik, Germany, Belgium It occurred to me that I never did finish talking about Monza, and it’s too far away now. So instead I’ll go into detail about the last two trips, knowing that we have another two over the next three weeks. We started July…
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