Macallan Classic Cut – Violent Elegance
Liver with fava beans and a good chianti, or a good Amarone, if you prefer the literary version to the film. Classical literature, especially Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Goldberg variations […]
Liver with fava beans and a good chianti, or a good Amarone, if you prefer the literary version to the film. Classical literature, especially Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Goldberg variations […]
I recently dreamt I had gone to a party in pyjamas. In case you don’t follow, let me explain – it wasn’t a pyjama party, which would have been pretty […]
Do you know what Feis Ile is? Feis ile is the biggest annual festival on the island of Islay, famous for production of peated whiskies. Feis Ile celebrates the culture […]
Manners make a man. This is what the British writer William Horman wrote in his book Vulgaria in 1519 – a compendium of quotes and proverbs from his day. In […]
My daughter is studying Brazilian folklore at school. Yesterday, she came to tell me that her favourite folk character is the (one-legged) little menace, Saci Perere. It makes sense, since […]
Ah, the White-headed eagle – a beautiful, strong and fierce animal, at the top of the food chain, feared and respected by all. No wonder it was chosen to represent […]
January is the month of my birthday. I turned thirty-three, with the liver of a sixty-something year old. And I realised something: My last thirty years were no way near […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about time. Not the portuguese perfect homonym for weather. because everybody knows that this weather is crazy, and sometimes it’s cold in the morning, it’s hot in […]
Once I mentioned the Ariel Atom, a car that can hardly be considered a car. There is no radio, no windscreen, certainly no air-conditioning, no roof, no doors and don’t […]
If you like cars, you must have heard of the Nissan GTR. The Nissan GTR is the heir of Skyline, a super-sporty Japanese car although produced by the Prince Motor […]