MagellanStraitsRSSFeed- Shaken Not Stirred Series – ‘The Great Gatsby Cocktail’ 22/05/2013To celebrate the recent release of the 2013 film ‘The Great Gatsby’, Erik Lorincz, The American Bar’s award winning barman, has created an elegant masterpiece in the form of ’The Great Gatsby” cocktail for The Savoy, A Fairmont Managed Hotel. He tells us that his inspiration was drawn from the film itself … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Travel Facts#2: In the footsteps of Napoleon! 20/05/2013For anyone wanting to know more about Emperor Napoleon, surely there can be no more symbolic a place to visit than Aix Island, in Poitou-Charentes, France. Napoleon finally left French soil forever from Aix Island en route to his banishment … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Suite Dreams Series – #11 – The Savoy’s Monet Suite 17/05/2013I guess the picture above lets the cat out of the bag so to speak but we recently took a sneaky peak around perhaps one of London’s most famous suites – the Monet Suite of The Savoy where Monsieur Claude … Continue reading →magellanstraits
- Shaken Not Stirred Series – ‘The Great Gatsby Cocktail’ 22/05/2013
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Five things to do in West Sussex & Hampshire
Base camp is the newly-refurbished Goodwood Hotel on the Goodwood Estate and our four other suggestions crisscross over the county boundaries of West Sussex and Hampshire – or as we locals tend to call it, the county triangle! With starting room … Continue reading
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Tagged Captain Oates, Captain Robert Scott, Captain Scott, Chawton, Cindy Leveson, Duke of Richmond, Gilbert White, Gilbert White House & Gardenn, Glorious Goodwood, Goodwood, Goodwood Aviation, Goodwood Estate, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Goodwood House, Goodwood Motor Circuit, Goodwood Racecourse, Goodwood Revival, Hampshire, Jane Austen, Jane Austen House Museum, National History Museum, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Scott of the Antartic, Selborne, Summer Exhibition, The Goodwood Hotel, The Oates Collection, The Queens at Seborne, West Sussex, West Wittering, West Wittering Beach
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Letters, signs and notices
Since re-connecting with the world via my photographic lens last year, I have begun to notice and appreciate the wit, style and beauty to be found all around us – from the most upmarket frontage to the more mundane everyday … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art and Culture, London, UK
Tagged America, Art and design, Art Deco, Britain, California, Canada, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Goodwood House, Hampshire, History, Hotel, Idsworth, Lettering, London, Luxury, Santa Monica Pier, Signs, Travel, Vancouver
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A Tale of Two Columns
When, like me, you come from Portsmouth, an historic naval city, you are reared on stories of naval valour and victory – and they don’t come much more heroic than the story of Lord Horatio Nelson and his memorable victory … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Trafalgar, Britain, E H Baily, Hampshire, History, HMS Victory, Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson, John Thomas Groves, London, Nelson Monument, Nelson's Column, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Royal Navy, Sir Edwin Landseer, Trafalgar Square, Travel, UK, William Railton
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A3 Wanderings: Lazy Sunday lunch at the Bat & Ball Inn, Hambledon
This is a pub or rather “Inn” that I have wanted to re-visit for several years so one Sunday, I decided to take the bull by the horns and do so. Sitting outside with the Hound, a cricket match being played opposite, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, country villages, Cricket, Days out, Dogs, Hambledon, Hampshire, History, Local history, Pubs, Travel, UK
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A3 Wanderings: The Cradle of Cricket
I last visited the Bat & Ball, Hambledon on the occasion of the Millennium, having decided to mark the great event by having dinner near the “cradle of the modern game” of cricket with a crowd of cricket mad friends. … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, country villages, Cricket, Days out, Food, Hampshire, History, Local history, Travel, UK
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Portsdown Hill – Looking out over Portsmouth
Years ago, my mother introduced me to Portsdown Hill (a favourite viewing point) with her graphic, grim recollection of how she watched a German bombing raid over Portsmouth in World War II reduce the city to ashes. In her later … Continue reading
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Tagged country villages, Days out, Dogs, Hampshire, Local history, Portsdown Hill, Travel, UK
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A new discovery: Creech Wood, Denmead
One of the joys of having a Hound is finding new places for “walkies” and recently, on a friend’s recommendation, I discovered Creech Wood, Denmead. Like Queen’s Enclosure and Park Wood, Waterlooville, it is another remnant of the Forest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Activities, Britain, country villages, Days out, Denmead, Dogs, Forest, Forestry Commission, Hampshire, Travel, UK, Walks, Woodlands
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Flying High: Portsmouth International Kite Festival
The best thing about living near a seaside city like Portsmouth is coming across the unexpected. In clement weather, weekends normally encompass a walk along the Eastney Beach with the Hound but my habit is always to drive right the … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Festivals, Hampshire, Kites, Portsmouth, Portsmouth International Kite Festival 2011, Seafront, Southsea, Southsea Common, UK
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A3 Wanderings: An historic church – St Mary’s, Selborne, Hampshire
Wandering around Selborne when visiting Gilbert White’s House, I can see why the village so enthralled him. OK – so in the mid 1700′s, it would have been a little different obviously but there is charm by the bucket load … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Churches, Days out, Hampshire, History, Local history, Selborne, Travel, UK
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A3 Wanderings: Chowing down in Selborne, Hampshire
Whilst visiting Selborne to see Gilbert White’s House, we cast around initially to see where we could enjoy a restorative cup of tea. With the Hound in tow, we sadly could not try out the Tea Parlour in Gilbert White’s … Continue reading
