It is difficult to imagine anyone more respectful of the female gender than I am. As a matter of fact, my mother was a woman as were roughly half my family. Vera, my first girlfriend was female: Come to think of it all who followed her footsteps were […]
The evocative soul-searing romance of Latin America was enduring. By chance whilst relaxing in a cantina I had made eye contact with a stunning senorita. The watering hole’s ambience was so Spanish the saloon looked like a movie set. Soon after the preliminaries, we amorous pair disappeared up […]
Alain Delon, born 1935 (died 2024) was one of the great cinema stars of the 20th century. Irresistibly good looking the French thespian wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The movie star was just 4-years old when his Parisian parents divorced after which there was […]
As the sun settles over Seville’s Plaza de Espana the mournful melody of a guitar completes the rapture. Your head swims with delight to Sueno en la Floresta. The incomparable beautiful evocation of Iberian charm was composed by Paraguayan, Agustin Barrios Mangore, who John Williams described as the […]
How odd, I thought, as I chanced upon a vocation that I had never before heard of. The smartly dressed young woman at the adjacent business fair stand explained her mission in life. If I required her services, she would accompany me to the city’s department stores. During […]
Faithful unto death I lacked the sense, experience and chutzpah to deviate from the course set for me by the ship’s 2nd Officer. That U.S. warship was going to get out of my way or it was going straight to Davy Jones’s locker in fore and aft pieces.
As the night’s entertainment arrived, I glanced at my watch; it was 9.40pm. Rarely did I visit a pub on my own but that night I was at a loose end and I thought, why not. A man’s spirit and his mortality embrace whilst gazing at the bar’s […]
Where and when appropriate I greet a lady by the simple courtesy of raising the back of her hand to near my lips. For many, it is a first experience that has so far brought pleasure. I wonder how many women have had a hat raised in greeting […]
One of the rarest terms in the English language is, ‘I don’t know.’ Very few people are wise enough to concede that they are clueless about a topic but are prepared to learn from those who do know. I admit to being clever at very little. I am […]
Never forgotten was the drama as the Enugu Palm skimmed a row of moored freighters at the quays of the Ivory Coast port of Abidjan. The mariner on the wheel of that fateful day in June 1965 tells the story as it unfolded. MIKE WALSH: Had it not […]
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