When my friend Flo told me about the excursion she had planned, I expected just another abbey hidden in the French countryside, albeit fine destinations they have been. The Abbaye de Valmagne turned out to be something really special and she had something up her sleeve she knew she would appeal to me, it’s a […]
When I first moved to Camden Town in London’s NW1 in the late seventies it was a bohemian collection of independent shops, markets, artists and a hotbed of creative ideas, liberally sprinkled with local eccentrics, winos, junkies and a substantial working class population (with Greek Cypriot and Irish making up good numbers) rubbing shoulders with […]