Our wine correspondent Jim Walker recently returned to Nice, France. He shares with us his latest observations about that fair city and the folks who are fortunate to visit it or live there.
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Our wine correspondent discovers that getting there is no longer “half the fun.”
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While his colleague Jim dines in style in the south of France, Nigel experiences an exemplary dinner in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Our neighbourhood in Niagara-on-the-Lake is surrounded by history. Every street bears a reminder of Canada’s roots.
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Everywhere one looks in England the golden daffodils are dancing in the breeze.
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Our wine scribe Jim Walker and his long-suffering wife Hélène have developed a deep affection for southern France.
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Five years ago, we stood at the Storskog Border Station, just outside Kirkenes, Norway, on the border with Russia, little imagining that this isolated crossing would one day be the last open gateway between Putin’s empire and Europe.
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Christmas cards keep arriving, whether delayed by post office inertia, actual mail strikes or our move to a historic lake-side town, it’s hard to say, but they do belatedly remind us of friends in distant places.
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Time for a change. Time to move on. Our new Niagara-on-the-Lake home beckons.
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Following a Covid-induced shut down in March of 2020, most cruise lines returned to service last year with varying health and safety protocols for passengers that seem to change by the month. The results have been mixed.
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Gentlemans Portion 