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...lucky. I just found I had a nose for it," he says. His safari with Erica, also an ex-journalist, to 13 African wine-producing countries was a nostalgic reminder of a 17,000-km honeymoon trip from London to Nairobi via the Sahara Desert and Abidjan, Ivory Coast in a battered Land Rover. The Platters' latest expedition of discovery was anything but a leisure trip. Wine tasting in Africa, they concluded, was hardly a gentle ramble through the usual vineyards. Vine growing and winemaking in many parts of Africa, says John, "is as far from Burgundy or California...
...team spent its first 10 days abroad in Shen Zhen, a commercial center on China’s southern coast, before performing in Hong Kong, Xian and finally Beijing...
...students lamented the passing of Pacific Sunwear—this most certainly is not the Pacific Coast, and time for sunwear is short. But Alpha-Omega is hardly an improvement. Recent graduates of the College can remember a time when the Square had more student appeal, a time when the space opposite Out of Town News was dedicated not to retail, but to hamburgers...
...Islamist-led protests against a possible war on Iraq and a disputed U.S. bombing on the border with Afghanistan. Pakistani politicians claimed the U.S. had bombed a disused Islamic seminary inside Pakistan, but U.S. officials said that the incident took place on the Afghan side of the frontier. IVORY COAST Fragile Truce President Laurent Gbagbo promised to expel foreign mercenaries and stop aerial bombings, after government helicopters attacked a fishing village and left 12 civilians dead. France condemned the raid as an "intolerable" violation of the cease-fire between the government and the main rebel group, the Ivory Coast Patriotic...
...opening a cookery school in Scotland," he says. Now his courses are booked months in advance. Nairn is only one of the chefs updating the image of Scottish cookery. In a converted crofter's cottage on the Isle of Skye - a ruggedly beautiful island just off Scotland's west coast - a chef named Shirley Spear is turning out food that takes full advantage of the area's extraordinary produce. Spear's restaurant-with-rooms, The Three Chimneys, was acclaimed as one of the world's 50 best restaurants earlier this year by Restaurant magazine. It could certainly qualify...