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20 Q& A 26 isle of wight Viz co-creator Simon Donald talks competition special feature about his new comic career Stan Abbott visits the most accessible of Britain’s great 24 Ex ploration express: islands and previews this bergen summer’s NatWest Island Games Norway’s second city is still a capital destination 32 v olunteers ON Parade 31 on the road The granite city celebrates the Life and times of one of the bad efforts of its Third Sector with a boys of motor racing makes it summer carnival into print ublicly accessible tower o 33 Win a scrumptious break for two at the Montagu Arms in 34 nordic noir 36 bare essentials The mean streets of Scandinavia Hampshire’s New Forest Eastern Airways’ network map, are providing a fertile stalking passenger information and ground for crime fiction destination guides

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Grilled Scottish scallops EXPLORATION EXPRESS slippers and then there’s A matth Davenport. “I ended up working at and running the kitchen at a pub in vegetarian restaurant at Altrincham, Then followed stints at a friend’s in India for six months…” canteen, the local restaurant, travelling got all sorts of jobs – Sainsbury’s always been interested in cooking so I University of Central England. “But I’ve route of a degree in hospitality from the cuisine via the slightly unconventional Matthew, now 35, arrived in haute Originally from south Manchester, restaurants. Telegraph’s Top 50 summer year. And it’s also named in the Daily retained his Michelin Star for the third Matthew Tomkinson, who has just the hotel’s restaurant under head chef Forest – I’m talking about The Terrace, 18th century inn in the heart of the New But there’s far more to the offer of this on hand. sofas, afternoon tea and friendly staff spades, with its log fires, squashy Montagu Arms seems to have it in house hotel should feel, but the some time. It’s just how a country at home and that you’ve lived here for It barely takes you five minutes to feel rriving at the 17th century e wmak TH M AT “I left the shelter of Steve’s wing and then! the Roux family. So no pressure there, David Nicholls, Tamasin Day-Lewis and Gary Rhodes, Rick Stein, Brian Turner, other chefs before a panel comprising That demanded competing with six Roux Scholarship in 2005.” half years as sous chef, gaining my place and worked there for four and Cuckfield, Sussex, fell in love with the Crane at Ockenden Manor at restaurants and went to work for Steve then I wrote to ten Michelin Star years I had lots of different jobs. But never seen before. Over the next few was a good chef and I saw things I had Simply Nico, at Heathrow. Craig Gray Star chef Matthew Tomkinson on r estaurant… tagu A rm e s is like slipping on a comfy pair of s hismark “We are spoilt for choice in the area: are longstanding. have apples, pears and quinces, which year and it’s still early days. Then we Matthew says: “This is only our first way into pickles and preserves, but as Much of the garden produce finds its beetroot, artichokes, runner beans…” breakfast, plus rhubarb, courgettes, we produce our own eggs for after the chickens and the garden, so even closer. “Jim the gardener looks farms, while some things are sourced lamb, pork and beef are all from local can locally,” he says. So the organic “We try to buy as much produce as we appetite. o’clock when you don’t have an dishes. “It’s just no good doing it at six when he is hungry to perfect his Matthew makes a point of cooking “modern displaying techniques”, so food that tastes good rather than and where we are”. The emphasis is on “serve food that reflects who we are Matthew’s philosophy has been to Since arriving at the Montagu Arms, chef and we got a Star in 2008.” Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire, as head went to the Goose restaurant at >> 15

The emphasis is on food that tastes good While you’re in rather than ‘modern displaying the area… The Montagu Arms sits at the head of the techniques’ so matthew makes a point of Beaulieu River tidal reach and is a great centre from which to explore both the New cooking when he’s hungry… Forest and the coastline around Lymington. No distance at all is the National Motor Museum which provided much amusement on a grey November day. This is a museum devoted not just to the history of the motor industry but also to Lord Montagu’s single-minded dedication to the cause of its creation. You can drool over shimmering cream finish of the luxurious 1935 4.5-litre Auburn 851, giggle at Del Boy’s Reliant (below) and laugh out loud at the Mini Outspan Orange. With simulators, hands-on rides and the World of Top Gear, there really is loads to see and do. The family history comes to life at Palace House, while the sanctuary of the adjacent abbey is something of a contrast with the modern museum building. You can get Matthew with produce from the garden, and, left, The Terrace restaurant around aboard the dinky monorail, which offers an aerial view of the gardens. the game comes from Alresford; our fish With the Montagu Arms’s extensive and www.beaulieu.co.uk comes from Lymington; oysters from the imaginative wine cellar providing the Beaulieu River, lobsters from the Solent. backdrop, this is heaven indeed! Also worth a call is Setley Ridge farm Local is wonderful but it’s got to be good shop, near Brockenhurst, selling a range of The Montagu Arms is about 30 minutes’ too.” So expect only the best Scottish local produce including its own white, red drive from Southampton airport (Eastern scallops! and fruit wines: very good! Airways flights from Aberdeen, Liverpool, www.setleyridge.co.uk Dinner, indeed, proves an absolute delight. Leeds Bradford and Durham Tees Valley) The slow-cooked oxtail and celeriac and also near Beaulieu Road or “lasagne” starter, with buttered baby Brockenhurst stations on the line to spinach and horseradish cream is one of Bournemouth. Matthew’s signature dishes and is a great Visit the website or call the hotel to find tease. out about offers, including its Gourmet Slow cooking is a big part of Matthew’s Dining Break available till the end of March repertoire, with lamb breasts and shoul- only. ders enjoying anything up to 18 hours in www.montaguarmshotel.co.uk the oven. 01590 624467. The roast saddle of Alresford venison comes with parsnip purée, crispy venison croquette, beetroot fondant and juniper to Just a bite TO KEEP THE BUGS AT BAY complement the game. This is melt-in- The Isle of Wight’s Garlic Farm has been attracting publicity far beyond the island and is your-mouth sumptuous and well worth a great place to stop for bite to eat while watching the red squirrels at play and visiting taking time over. the adjacent pottery. If, like owner Colin Boswell, you’re obsessed with garlic you’ll love The selected pistachio soufflé, bitter hot the Garlic Store, where garlic comes in more shapes, sizes and flavours than anywhere chocolate sauce and pistachio tuile rubs else in Europe. shoulders on the inventive dessert menu You can read about the quest to trace the original garlic plant in with such temptations as dark chocolate remote Anatolia, or try garlic beer. Keep your digestion in trim and delice with lavender ice cream and burnt friends at bay with a tasty platter in the café. orange syrup, or lemon meringue pie with poached oranges and basil. www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk • Isle of Wight feature, 26-28

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Norfolk has produced its fair share of (1342-1416). Although relatively little is James Masterson takes characters over the years – the known about the woman credited by literary

: county can claim the first British some scholars with being the Mother a tour of places with Prime Minister, Richard Walpole, and of English Literature, she played a literary connotations Lord Nelson among its celebrated pivotal role in shaping the Christian residents. Its place in our literary world and is still revered across it. Her location in Norfolk history is also firmly etched. So join writings, which recount 16 visions on

my literary tour of just some of the that came to her from Christ during a landmarks, locations and treasures near death experience, are a the county has to offer. fascinating insight into the world in general and more specifically the role The city of Norwich has played host of women in the early 15th century. to and been the birthplace of many The church from which we take her great writers, some popular, others name (we do not know her real one) is shamefully overlooked. Of most situated between two major shopping recent note are Stephen Fry – and residential streets just outside the currently working on the script of the heart of Norwich. Within her shrine Dambusters remake – and Philip and recently rebuilt cell, where she Pullman of His Dark Materials fame. met pilgrims, you are guaranteed to To do it full justice would require a find spiritual peace, away from the book as detailed as those on the hustle and bustle of the city. Norwich School of Painters, claimed Amazingly, Julian’s dissenting voice, to be the first provincial art movement with its vernacular devotional prose, in Britain. However, one curiosity that remained unpunished by the Catholic deserves a mention is the 17th Church in England at the time. Her century writer, Sir Thomas Browne near contemporary across in King’s (1605-1682), one of the most Lynn, however, was not so lucky. outstanding liberals of his generation Margery Kempe (1373-c.1440) is a and a man of great literary talent and relatively little known figure – despite learning in science and other fields. arguably being the first female He was also the first person to autobiographer. She was born and document the Norfolk dialect. His spent most of her life in Lynn, but remains are buried just behind the managed, despite starting two failed new library at St Peter Mancroft businesses (including a brewery) and Church. being a mother of no fewer than 14, to find time to visit all the major Christian As well as his general literary fame, shrines of her day. he is unusual for having died on his birthday (October 19). Aside from his Her home town of Bishop’s Lynn, as it literary, legal and dying-on-birthday was known until the 16th century, is contributions perhaps most striking an hour to the west of Norwich, on claim is having been reunited with his the border with Lincolnshire. It has a skull at the ripe old age of 316, in historic guildhall and customs house 1922, after this had been removed which are well worth checking out. from his coffin in 1840. Rather closer to Norwich is Thetford. Norwich’s most iconic daughter is Best known for its child-friendly forest Julian (yes, that’s right) of Norwich walks and lovely scenery, the town

Great Yarmouth is said to be the inspiration

18 visitnorwich.co.uk / visitnorfolk.co.uk / Explore To Time - Norfolk / Tovell Keiron / Ziko / Reilly Simon for much of Dickens’ David Copperfield itself contains ruins of a beautiful 12th century Cluniac priory (after the Burgundy Abbey of Cluny). The American people owe Thetford a great debt as the home of Thomas Paine (1737-1809). He was something of a political extremist for his time and an outsider shunned in the UK. However his ground-breaking Rights of Man was inspirational to the Rebels during the American War of Independence and helped to shape the Declaration of South of Norwich is Ditchingham, which write home Independence. was the home of Sir Henry Rider Haggard Clockwise from top left: A few miles south of Thetford is (1856-1925). Though not as monumental Bressingham Gardens, Henry Bressingham, which features gardens and a today as he was during his lifetime, he is still Rider Haggard, Anna Sewell, steam museum. Though the site itself is remembered, most famously, for writing Thomas Paine statue in Thetford, famous, these are both the work of the King Solomon’s Mines. The stuff of Boy’s statue of Julian of Norwich at relatively obscure writer, Alan Bloom Own annuals, his action hero characters Norwich Cathedral. (1907- 2005). Celebrated in the horticultural were popular, but also very much of their Main image: beach at Scratby, community, over the last 60 years he built time (if slightly more liberal than many Great Yarmouth up one of the world’s leading nurseries (with contemporaries). Recent resurgence, with many Chelsea Gold Medals) alongside Sean Connery playing one of his characters indulging his other passion, for water (Alan Quartermain) as well as the Indiana vapour. Scattered around the gardens you Jones series, which this character inspired, will find an impressive collection of steam have led to something of a revival in his engines and artifacts. While creating this he popularity. The village where he spent most also found time to write a number of of his life, as with many in the region, is a pioneering books on his garden variety truly beautiful retreat. St Mary’s Church, plants. The site now is very much a family where Haggard himself was Churchwarden day out – with the added bonus of the only for a while, is well worth a visit. “official” exhibition dedicated to TV’s Dad’s Army. wwwvisitnorfolk.co.uk Great Yarmouth’s current claim to fame is www.visitnorwich.co.uk its importance in the offshore energy sector, but it is also said to be the inspiration for Eastern Airways flies to much of Dickens’s David Copperfield. Great Norwich from Aberdeen Yarmouth also deserves recognition as being the birthplace of Anna Sewell (1820-1878). Though she only wrote and published one book (which she in turn sold for a meagre £40), it is one of the top ten selling books in the English language. Black Beauty was written largely in what is now a suburb of Norwich (Old Catton), which also houses a beautiful, if somewhat small, park in her honour. Yarmouth has benefited of late from concerted efforts to recognise and remember much of its proud past, including its pivotal role in Britain’s maritime history, from the famous herring fleets to the marauding Vikings, Dutch, and Normans. The Tolhouse, complete with dungeons which date from the late 13th century, is said to be the oldest civic building in Britain. 20

Q & A: simon donald characters I had been experimenting do. I decided then to try out the stand-up was what I really wanted to perspective, I realised that to perform life. Looking at things from a new readdressed what I was doing with my terminally ill that I stood back and Simon: It was when Steve was life? 2008. Was this a turning point in your brother Steve who died of cancer in MH: You were a carer for your eldest our stock in trade. violent elements which were to become Kipplin, and it had the surreal and strip called Afternoon Tea with Mr seemed the natural thing to do. I did this comics since I was a kid too. So it contribution. I had a fascination with called Viz yet – and asked me to make a Jim came up with this comic – it wasn’t So it all came together and Chris and featured a lot of swearing. Derek and Clive routines, which like Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s introduced us to alternative comedy, Heaton Sidings correspondent. Jim in our street. Jim Brownlow was the him and a couple of other train spotters Lily Crescent Locomotive Times – for making magazines. It started with the Meanwhile Chris was hell-bent on on stage and making people laugh. Newcastle and I fell in love with being studied acting at the People’s Theatre in Waring, to entertain my dad. I later impressions of people on TV, like Eddie magazines. Even as a small boy I did performer and got sidetracked into Simon: I actually started out as a Viz? stand-up after 24 successful years on MH: Why did you decide to go into G N monthly. the Viz comic phenomenon. top stand-up comedian. simon donald Q&a: ew eordie castle in 1979, it went on to top a million sales bi- S T imon hi rty years on D on ald and brother Michael Hamilton S im C them: “If you laugh at me or me dogs I’ll chained in the back and he screams at of a pick-up truck with two vicious dogs stripped naked to the waist – jumps out road in Newcastle when this bloke – couple of friends were walking along a of true stories put into character. A pure invention but actually a collection The thing about Bingo is that it’s not up with Bingo from Benton. to think of a character in a hurry I came Benton and named him Bingo. Needing just got a dog from the rescue centre in had no callers. My girlfriend and I had wanted pals to phone in just in case he stint sitting in for Alan Robson and he Then a DJ pal Simon Smedley did a just Simon from Heaton, then. monumentally limited intelligence. I was and convinced him I was of it was because they had more wheels why trains went faster than buses. I said him similar stupid questions, such as Robson was hosting Night Owls to ask Years later I phoned up when Alan cigarettes. such as where did the Pope keep his slot on Metro Radio with daft questions, used to ring up the Night Owls late night guitarist in my band, Paul Rose, and I years ago. In the early Eighties the Geordie thug – actually began about 20 Simon: Well, Bingo from Benton – the act. some of the characters in your stand-up MH: Tell me about the inspiration for returned to, rather than a new direction. But doing comedy was something I than playing the characters themselves. telling stories about characters rather comedy clubs. Up until that point I was the Edinburgh Fringe and in North East with for a couple of years on stage at on is forging a new career as a re ated in their bedroom in C hr is masterminded met him… with a very high opinion of himself. Farqhuar, a first year medical student humour; and there’s Dominic comedian who has no sense of ware; Jeremy Jitler, a stand-up stars – but not drugs, rather sanitary Kestrel is a Cockney supplier to the questions are very offensive; Rick market research dogsbody whose moment: there’s Barry Twyford, a I’ve got four other characters at the Bingo’s catchphrase. f...ing bray you.” So I made that stand-up was what I really wanted to do. I decided then to try out the characters I had been experimenting with

Simon’s standup characters Rick Kestrel, Jeremy Jitler, Barry Twyford, Bingo from Benton and Dominic Farqhuar

My challenge is to develop a stand-up act wrote itself. Like Bingo there were just so feels he has to make all these outrageous that is successful all over the UK. My many true stories that could be easily comments because of peer pressure. He shows are very popular in the North East turned into Sid material. Graham Lines was great to do. but characters like Bingo don’t travel very was a pal with a rough-diamond Geordie People often ask who were the Viz well so I’m working on some new humour who was studying maths at characters based on. Some were based characters I can use throughout the Newcastle University but funding his on real people. My brother Chris was country. studies by working at Byker bin depot. He Simon Lotion Time and Motion. was hilarious but painfully shy with The only thing I invented there was the women. So he partly inspired Sid. But MH: Which Viz character are you proudest moustache! My eldest brother Steve was there are other aspects to Sid too. He’s the of? Mr Logic. He was so very logical in original 40-year-old virgin. The irony is if everything he did. He actually had Simon: Without doubt it has to be Sid the Sid ever dropped his guard and behaved Sexist. Once I had the character it just Asperger’s syndrome although he didn’t normally he would be a success, but he >> emirates.com/uk

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bergen taking pride of place

The people of Norway’s second city have companiment to Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. Grieg Bergen is a proud and their own dialect and, while Bergen is the himself said it was so “ultra-Norwegian” unofficial capital of the west and the that it reeked of cowpats and he hoped independent city in a fjords, there’s an unspoken nostalgia for people would simply take it as ironic. the 13th century, when the city was Troldhaugen sits on the end of a proud and independent capital of all Norway. peninsula jutting into a lake and, besides country and its people Traditionally known as a city surrounded the little museum, you can soak up the by seven mountains, such has been period atmosphere in the house and see are not shy to remind you Bergen’s expansion that city guides now the little lakeside cabin where the tell you it’s seven mountains surrounded composer drew his inspiration. of that as Lars Andersen by a city, with new satellites reached by A grass-roofed and deceptively large tunnels beneath the mountains. Its concert hall, Troldsalen, cascades down discovered on a recent population of about 250,000 is closer to the hillside and the huge windows behind 400,000 if you include the wider the stage frame Grieg’s hut and the lake visit. metropolitan area. perfectly. Both this and the house itself No-one could fail to be impressed by are venues for Bergen’s International Bergen’s setting and a short ride up the Festival, staged annually in May and June mountains by cable car or funicular and the largest of its kind in Scandinavia, spreads the city out beneath you like a makes use of Troldsalen’s amazing map, with the ocean beyond. acoustics, and also uses the house itself, and Grieg’s Steinway grand, for more But I take time first, en route from the air- intimate concerts. port, to drop in on the city’s most famous son, Edvard Grieg, at his summer home, Just outside Troldsalen you’ll find a life- Troldhaugen (troll hill). Grieg’s In the Hall size statue of Grieg and you’ll be aston- of the Mountain King evokes a sinister ished to find he was just five feet tall. His world of troll courtiers and goblins and lack of stature translated into poor health

24 ApnesethBoard/Oddleiv Tourist Bergen was written by him as an orchestral ac- and he died aged 64 as he set off for the Leeds International Piano competition in from where it’s a four or five-hour walk 1907. His ashes and those of his wife Nina across the fells to Mount Fløyen, from are, fittingly, entombed in the rock beneath where you can then descend right into the the house. city centre by Fløibanen funicular. This is proper mountain walking, yet just minutes Grieg’s other legacy for his home city is the from the city. Where else could you find Grieg Hall concert venue, whose piano that? Both mountain summits have shape stands out when you look down on restaurants and there can be few better the city. ways to spend a warm summer Bergen Bergen’s other significant claim to fame is evening than watching the sun dip just Bryggen, the UNESCO World Heritage Site below the horizon in the north west, over a of the old Hanseatic port. The Hanseatic cool beer. League was a monopolistic trading empire The funicular is actually used by in the Middle Ages and Bergen was one of commuters in the higher parts of the city its most significant member ports. Although and enjoyed a makeover in 2002. But frequently ravaged by fire, Bryggen today Bergen’s newest toy is its tram system, still evokes the time when this was a Saxon funded in part by motorway tolls. It will enclave in Norway. Under the terms of the eventually serve the airport. UNESCO listing, traditional methods are still used to maintain the 62 surviving Eastern Airways flies to Bergen from wooden warehouses that line Bryggen’s Aberdeen and Newcastle. narrow alleys. I can think of no better place www.visitbergen.com/en to grab a traditional fish dish than Funicular www.floibanen.com Tracteursted, right in the heart of the old Cable car www.ulriken643.no/en wharf area. War, after an explosion aboard a German Food While in this part of town you can wander munitions ship tore through the city. For traditional Norwegian, Holbergrstuen in round the famous old fish market and also Torgallmenningen www.holbergstuen.no/ visit the 13th century Håkon’s Hall, evoking And now back to the mountains: there’s en; or Tracteursted, in Bryggen, memories of the days when Bergen was nothing better on a summer’s day than to www.dehistoriske.com/restaurant/bryggen- the seat of the Norwegian monarchy. It was do as I did on my first ever visit to the city tractursted substantially rebuilt after the Second World and take the cable car up Mount Ulriken,

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isle of wight: Travel feature most accessible islands across the Stan Abbott few days. vibrant community and a fantastic place to escape for a kilometres of England’s largest island remain both a the edges, but the good news is that the 380 square Some of its Victorian grandeur may be a bit faded round that insular trait of adhering to its own temporal rules. accessible of all Britain’s offshore islands, it still retains For although the Isle of Wight is among the most journey through space and time. But then it doesn’t take long either for Dr Who’s Tardis to the two or three miles of open water to the Isle of Wight. the narrow channel of the Lymington River and to cross It takes very little time for the ferry to ease its way along S ol makes the short hop ent to one of in what was the wartime terminus for PLUTO, the Just next door, is the delightful Isle of Wight Zoo, housed brought to life by working models. where the island’s pre-history is both well told and impressive and relatively new attraction at Sandown, some of their sense of discovery at Dinosaur Isle, an We chose to escape a grey November day and share Mecca for fossil hunters for many years. of its soft southern shoreline, the island has been a And, indeed, pre-history – thanks to the constant erosion to visit without appreciating its important place in history. kingdom in the 15th century are very long gone it’s hard Although the status of the island as an independent B ri tain’s >> The Needles from Headon Hill IW Council, www.islandbreaks.co.uk Council, IW

Roman villa at Brading , walkers at Alum Bay, Wightlink car ferry St Clare at Fishbourne

Pipeline Under The Ocean, supporting the D-Day landings. Across the bay are the iconic Needles, but we climb to the summit of Headon Hill to cast them in better perspective. Atop the ancient The zoo was once dubbed the worst in Britain but that publicity earthworks on this vantage, a 180° about-face brings Hurst Castle prompted a change in ownership and it is now an award-winning into view, sitting at the end of its Dorset sandspit. It’s a great place family-run enterprise and, after getting up close and personal with a from which to appreciate being on an island. couple of refugee bats and the man from the bat hospital, we get a personal introduction to the zoo’s refugee lions and tigers, doing And a final word about island people: we passed through the tiny their best to look cheerful in the rain. village of Brook, on the southwest coast and wondered why so many were gathered at the little village hall. They were there for the The zoo’s other big collection is lemurs, but it doesn’t have launch of Brook: A Village History – no mere booklet, but a exclusivity on the ape front: the Isle of Wight Owl and Monkey beautifully produced and illustrated 200-page hardback book Haven is a new venture and its generous enclosures are home to a detailing 200 years of life in an isolated coastal community. It’s a lively assortment of primates and, of course, birds of prey. product of the work of the village history project and something the Also relatively new to the tourist trail is the superb Roman villa, whole island can look upon with pride. tucked away down a quiet lane at Brading. This is a live Stan travelled to the Isle of Wight with Wightlink on its Lymington to archaeological site, boasting some fine mosaics and excellent Yarmouth service and back via Fishbourne to Portsmouth. interpretation of life in the times after commander Vespasian, later www.wightlink.co.uk to become emperor, captured the island. This was once a fully working manor style farm and it’s a reminder that Romans knew Wightlink produces a set of three excellent themed booklets and how to lead a good life the best part of 2,000 years ago. online guides – free from Wightlink by calling 0871 376 1000 or downloadable at www.wightlink.co.uk/themedbreaks). These A more recent island resident was the poet Alfred Lord include Secret Wight, unveiling secret places to discover, a 33-stop Tennyson, whose monument tops the highest Down in the Wight History Trail, and Wight Taste Trail, featuring the very best island’s west. Our charge of the Wight brigade leads us once local food. more unto the beach, however, and perhaps the strangest of beaches anywhere in the country – Alum Bay, at the tip of the Stay at: Hillside, Ventnor – Beautiful Scandinavian inspired island a mile or so beyond the noble lord and poet’s monument. guesthouse overlooking the sea in this elegant old resort. Here, the relentless thrashing of waves across the single beach www.hillsideventnor.co.uk. Excellent pub food at the Village Inn, old is driving back the cliffs and exposing many different coloured Shanklin. vertical strata. These varying mineral hues make up the famous Dinosaur Isle www.dinosaurisle.com alum sands, used in the manufacture of glass trinkets in the

factorycredit and visitor centre on the clifftop. Isle of Wight Zoo www.isleofwightzoo.com 28 2011 ames G sland I est W t a N he

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isle games participation events in the world and it’s coming to the Isle of commence Wight in June. Other UK participating islands include the Western Isles and Shetland and the event provides the platform for talented TheN atWest Island Games 2011 athletes to experience and progress in the international sporting arena. taking place from June 25 to July 1 The Isle of Wight’s Andy Frost, for example, who has held the will see more than 3,000 athletes and Gold for hammer throwing in the NatWest Island Games since>> 2005, came fourth in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi for representatives of 25 different islands the second time. Other Isle of Wight athletes, Darren Mew and Kelly Sotherton, have gone on to win Olympic medals. all heading for the Isle of Wight. Since the Games started in 1985, more than 400 medals have been won by Isle of Wight athletes, and 13 sporting records made across archery, athletics, shooting and swimming. Shetlanders have won 155 medals and Western Islanders 17. >>

The Games will open with a spectacular parade >> 29 << David Ball, Chairman of the Isle of Wight Island Games Association, says: “This really is a major sporting event attracting athletes from around the world Island Games Participating islands who compete at international and world class level and many teams Island teams from all across the globe will compete in the games in June. The islands who will have competed in the represented include the world’s largest, Greenland, and one of the most isolated, Commonwealth Games last year. For St Helena. There’s even a peninsula, Gibraltar, as well as many more territories and our Island athletes it is a tremendous protectorates of larger nations. There are no sovereign states taking part in 2011 although opportunity to gain experience and both Iceland and Malta have been represented in the past. compete at this level and work towards even greater rewards.” As well as the Isle of Wight, British and Scandinavian Future hosts teams are being sent from islands have dominated the 2013 – Bermuda The June games are expected to the following: Island Games, with Jersey, 2015 – Jersey be the biggest to date, and will be Åland, Finland Isle of Man and Guernsey the largest international multi-sport Alderney occupying the first three Sports event ever held on the Isle of Wight. Anglesey (Ynyns Mon) places in the overall medals Participating teams select They will also be the biggest sporting Bermuda table and Gotland, Faroe between 12 and 14 sports event in the UK in the year prior to Cayman Islands Islands, Åland, Isle of Wight from this list: the Olympics. and Saaremaa in fourth to Falkland Islands Archery seventh places. Bermuda Faroe Islands Athletics The Isle of Wight Island Games and the Cayman Islands Froya, Norway Badminton Association, responsible for are the only non-European Gibraltar Basketball organising the games, has also islands in the top ten. Gotland, Sweden Cycling received support from the London Football Organising Committee for the Greenland Previous hosts Guernsey Golf Olympic Games which will be 1985 – Isle of Man Hitra, Norway Sailing using the Games as a test bed for 1987 – Guernsey Shooting – Clay Pigeon Isle of Man their sports officials involved in the 1989 – Faroe Islands Shooting – Target Jersey Olympic programme. 1991 – Åland Squash Minorca 1993 – Isle of Wight Swimming Orkney An Arts Council grant of £94,099 1995 – Gibraltar Table Tennis funded by the National Lottery has Prince Edward Island, 1997 – Jersey Tennis Canada enabled a spectacular Opening 1999 – Gotland Volleyball Rhodes Ceremony in Ryde, on Saturday 2001 – Isle of Man Windsurfing June 25, and it will include more than Saaremaa, Estonia 2003 – Guernsey 1,000 young people in a carnival Saint Helena 2005 – Shetland style extravaganza. The Closing Sark 2007 – Rhodes Ceremony will take place on Friday Shetland 2009 – Åland July 1 at Cowes Yacht Haven. Western Isles, Scotland 2011 – Isle of Wight

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Eastern Airways flies frequently to Southampton from Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Leeds Bradford and Liverpool. 30 30 Bottom picture © Mike Jiggle on the road li Lewis (left) ri at Silverstone rallycross and ABOVE Chat takes to the air competed in 21 countries over only ever an amateur driver, he says Norman. “Though he was beer, not always in that order,” true) stories about cars, women and repertoire of unbelievable (but largely “Chat, now 70, has an astonishing Bristol, let alone just motorsport. have been one of the baddest lads in and it describes a man who may well once commercialism overwhelmed motorsport tribute to an age before money and Norman’s account of Chatham’s life is an affectionate racing days. Healeys since a stroke a few years ago put paid to his garage in Bristol sorting out other enthusiasts’ Austin These days, happily married, he spends his time at his womanising. – when he wasn’t busy hard-drinking and hard- who dedicated a career to fixing and racing Austin Healeys motorsport”. The book’s subject is John “Chat” Chatham, biography of “one of the best-liked bad boys of British The resultant marriage made in heaven is Mr Big Healey, a would one day find common cause. his love of cars, particularly of the classic sporting variety, So it was probably inevitable that his talent for writing and renovated by his own hands. proud owner of a very rare AC Ace sports car, lovingly correspondent and a self-confessed petrolhead, who is the Norman Burr is Eastern Airways Magazine’s motoring Stan Abbott of the best-liked bad boys of ght w fe ith racing rival John o reviews the recently published biography by f a boy rac B ri tish motorsport… You can share in Chat’s tales of derring-do as retold by part of valour.” decided on a few occasions that discretion was the better friends and family around him and, I confess, the author, not because of anything censored by John but because is not a complete account – and it is very nearly so – it is and his past – good and bad – can contemplate. If the book in a way that only a man completely at ease with himself Everything and Everything. The stories came tumbling out, “Amazingly, the answers to those questions were happy to see in print? would he be willing to tell? And how much would he be turned on my tape recorder for our first session. How much his head. Nevertheless, it was with some trepidation that I was confident that there was no shortage of material inside “So although his name means little to the general public, I developing them since 1960. having been buying, selling, rebuilding, racing and Healeys, on which he is an acknowledged world expert, 40 years and is known particularly for his exploits in Austin e r Norman, in Mr Big Healey, published by Veloce at £24.99. Don’t imagine Norman will see much of the price, though, as he reckons he worked at way below N or the minimum wage on this one. http://tinyurl.com/ygmsu9d man B urr of one 31 32

event FEATURE: ABERDEEN i summer about ofall its good work Third M A carni Group, Karate Scotland and Street Drummers Among entertainers already signed up are Phoenix Theatre and dancers. groups, a samba band, pipe bands, choirs, theatre groups accompanied by a host of performers including drumming Castlegate. Third sector participants on the day will be processing from the top of Union Street down to the The parade will set off in the morning of Saturday June 11, city. Third Sector. It marks the finale to Volunteers Week in the awareness of the good work being carried out by the city’s vibrant display of energy, song and dance to raise Morven Mackenzie and will see the organisations unite in a Celebrate Aberdeen is the brainchild of businesswoman of the city. take to the streets in a celebratory parade through the heart charities, social enterprises and volunteering organisations Carnival comes to Aberdeen in summer as the city’s berdeen businesswoman ac n n kenzie is suremaking the city’s S ec AB tor bangs the this drum E v RD al tim EE M or N ven e

www.celebrateaberdeen.org Contact [email protected]. organisations are also being sought. Sponsors for both the event and individual participating Michelle Duff, at [email protected] . interested should contact ACVO Communications Officer, looking for a full house of voluntary organisations. Those already signed up, the Celebrate Aberdeen committee is With more than 50 charities and community organisations local self-help groups getting involved.” social enterprises, traditional fundraising charities and “It is therefore wonderful to see so many established which work within it. the sector as a whole, as well as of the individual groups the parade and use the opportunity to raise awareness of type and size of Third Sector organisation can take part in “It has been our aim from the outset to ensure that every and beyond. positive impact on our communities, our city, our region ways that people can enjoy coming together to make a as a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness of the many the European Year of Volunteering, ACVO sees the parade Ian Paterson, Chief Executive of ACVO, said: “Coming in of recruitment of Third Sector participants in the parade. Aberdeen council of Voluntary Organisations – is in charge A key partner in the planning of the event, ACVO – Aberdeen who have supported them in turn.” organisations to offer their thanks to the people of them. It will also be a great opportunity for the platform from which to further raise people’s awareness of organisations’ services and the parade will act as a “So many people in the region benefit from these should be celebrated. believes that Aberdeen’s incredibly diverse Third Sector shares a real enthusiasm for the event and, like me, which is so exciting to see,” said Morven. “The team “Plans for Celebrate Aberdeen are already moving ahead Sectors to develop the event. professionals from across the private, public and Third has gathered a strategic committee comprising based public relations consultancy, Mackenzie PR, and Morven Mackenzie is director and owner of Aberdeen- city. bring a carnival atmosphere into the heart of the Granite hundreds of third sector participants, the parade is set to the media, Guides, Brownies and Boys’ Brigade, plus the Aberdeen. Combined with local celebrities, members of

The New Forest is an oasis of calm and tranquillity in the busy south of England and has remained substantially unchanged since it was created by William the Conqueror in the 11th century. The Montagu Arms is a 17th century country house at beautiful Beaulieu, in a tranquil corner of the forest, and a great place to unwind and enjoy the very best of local food and fine wine. Eastern Airways has teamed up with the Montagu Arms to offer one lucky reader and a companion the chance to get away from it all on a two-night break at the Montagu Arms. The prize includes bed and breakfast for two people sharing for two nights, plus dinner for two (excluding drinks) on one evening as well as Eastern Airways flights to Southampton if required. Dinner will be taken in The Terrace, chef Matthew Tomkinson’s Michelin Star restaurant, rated the best in Hampshire by the Which? Good Food Guide and featuring produce from the hotel’s own kitchen garden, with locally sourced fish and organic meat. Just a short distance away are the National Motor Museum and Beaulieu Abbey, while the sailing resort and market town of Lymington and Brockenhurst, the largest village in the New Forest, are just a short drive. The New Forest offers a range of leisure activities, including walking, kayaking, cycling or just taking it easy and watching the wildlife.

For your chance to win this fantastic break, just answer the easy question: What is the name of the Montagu Arms’ Michelin Star restaurant? Send your answers by email, with MONTAGU in the subject field, to [email protected]. Or send a postcard to Montagu Arms competition, Gravity Consulting, Office 15, Bizspace Abbey business Centre, Abbey Road, Pity Me, Durham, DH1 5JZ. Please note that this prize is subject to availability of flights and accommodation and must be taken by December 16, 2011. Bank Holiday weekends are excluded. The prize does NOT include ground transfers from Southampton Airport. Trains operate direct from the airport to either Beaulieu Road or Brockenhurst. Closing date for entries is Friday June 3. Prizes are not transferable and the Editor’s decision is final.

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Stian Andersen entertainment: film C nordicnoir S tan Abbott rime novels are coming out of more and more unexpected places. investigates… mean streets: Jo Nesbø Going down Norway’s Picture the scene. A film script lands on a and based on the books of Henning Mankell. Hollywood desk with an accompanying letter The Danish drama, The Killing, is also that goes something like this… attracting big audiences on BBC 4. Dear Sir, I have had this great idea for a film. But in the quest for the next Larsson, the It’s called Men Who Hate Women and it’s finger has been pointing at Norway’s Jo about this bisexual autistic computer hacker Nesbø for some months, with the result that who’s been abused by her dad. It’s a very his latest work, The Leopard, soared to long story – nearly 2,000 pages in novel form number one in the UK hardcover fiction – and the real hero is a left wing journalist on charts in January. a small publication in Sweden. Bet ya like it?! It’s debatable whether Nesbø would have three of the best Well, truth is that Hollywood would surely seen his star rise quite so fast had it not been You can catch the original Swedish have killed the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo for the stroke of genius in attaching the versions of Larsson’s Millennium long before her birth. But as Hollywood Larsson tag, but writers in many other trilogy on Blu-ray and DVD, with the prepares its remake of the Swedish film of the languages may now thank Larsson for third and final, The Girl Who Kicked book (which was indeed first published in opening the eyes of British publishing, and the Hornet’s Nest, due out in April. Sweden with a magazine-style cover entitled indeed American film, to new possibilities. Män Som Hatar Kvinnor – Men Who Hate I watched The Girl Who Played with While Larsson was unusual in doubling as a Women), starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Fire (released January) after having crime writer and fascist hunter, Nesbø is an Mara (Nightmare on Elm Street), it’s worth a read all three books and found it a author who doubles as a heavy metal look at how Stieg Larsson has helped thrust remarkably faithful reproduction. musician… oh, and a footballer who might crime fiction into the mainstream and what This faithfulness means it is a long have made it pro. He pretty much wrote his his legacy is. film, but there are some clever first book while on a flight to Australia. departures from script that move the Larsson, like Mikael Blomkvist, the hero of I’ve nearly completed my Nesbø induction plot along a bit quicker than in the the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and sister with The Snowman, in which a series of novel. titles, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The abductions of married women as winter snow Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Next, was a It’s a gripping watch and I liked arrives is marked in each case by the journalist dedicated to exposing neo-Nazism seeing it having already read the appearance of a snowman. in his native Sweden. The books are very book. Indeed, I’m not sure how Swedish, and this comes through in the The man charged with unravelling the easily I’d have followed the plot at-times slightly stilted English translations. mysteries is Nesbø’s esoteric Doc Marten- without that prior knowledge. So too are the original films and it’s good to wearing, drinking, smoking detective, Harry All three films are released by note that at least Hollywood hasn’t done a Hole. The narrative is dark but compelling Momentum Pictures Get Carter and relocated everything to and as Norwegian as Larsson’s is Swedish. www.momentumpictures.co.uk Philadelphia or Des Moines. While Nesbø’s books expose a sinister vision SA I had never been a great reader of crime of Norway that’s not often on view to the fiction because, I admit, I hadn’t really tried it. visitor, the planning of his work is, in But I read the Millennium trilogy, all 1,900 Norwegian fashion, meticulous: “Writing the pages, pretty much back to back in two or type of book I do now is a bit like steering a three weeks. So have others I know, helping super tanker. You can’t just chug full steam to explain more than 27 million sales ahead and sail away. You must have a course worldwide. laid down and the whole thing planned. And it’s difficult. To compose a crime novel you With Larsson’s death in 2004 preceding need to use a bit of engineering skill. If you’ve publication of any of the books, let alone the completed a couple of projects you learn a films, the hunt has been on for “the next Stieg lot. And if you got through the first two intact, Larsson” and a by-product of this seems to as I did, that’s good. With the third comes the be growing interest (certainly in the UK) in grand plot.” crime writing coming out of other countries. That grand plot has now extended to eight The BBC latched onto this with a pair of Harry Hole novels, which means he’s already programmes on crime fiction from five ahead of Larsson at his death. Scandinavia and Italy – Nordic Noir and Italian Noir – in its Timeshift series on BBC The only real question is when will the movie Four (download at www.bbc.co.uk/ come. And the answer is quite soon, but not programmes/b00tptr9/episodes/2010). More with Harry Hole. A Norwegian collaboration recently, its three-parter, Zen, made a pretty with Yellow Bird, the Swedish company good job of capturing the atmosphere of an behind the Larsson trilogy films and a partner Italian police drama, while there are plans for in Wallander, will bring Nesbø’s standalone further series of Wallander, set in Sweden crime novel, Headhunters, to the big screen. Welcome to our bare essentials Here you can find information on our routes, fleet, passenger BARE ESSENTIALS experience and a host of suggestions for what to do when you arrive at your destination.

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After booking your Eastern Airways flight steps. Your hand luggage will be awaiting via a travel agent, the airline’s website or you on the valet baggage cart at your Air travel in-house reservations call centre, you will destination airport. have noticed that Eastern Airways uses should be more of e-tickets. It was in fact one of the airlines Once on board, our highly trained cabin to pioneer ticketless travel over nine attendants offer a friendly and personal- a pleasure and years ago. ised in-flight service including complimentary drinks and branded snacks. On less of a chore Queues at check-in are short and the arrival our aircraft allow for quick process is swift as is the experience disembarkation, enabling passengers to Our aim is to make your travel as pleasant through the security channels. This is make their way swiftly onwards through an experience as possible. possible thanks to a ground-breaking the terminals. initiative called Fast Track, which is Have an enjoyable trip. available at Aberdeen, Leeds Bradford, Southampton, East Midlands, Liverpool and Newcastle, and is a dedicated security channel for Eastern Airways S tamping Out Disruptive Behaviour passengers to use and avoid busy airport terminal security queues. While the vast majority of passengers flying globally behave impeccably, there is a greater awareness of isolated incidents of disruptive behaviour, also known as “air With Eastern Airways operating the rage”. While this isn’t a major problem for Eastern Airways, the safety and security of largest number of scheduled services our passengers and crew is our number one priority. from Aberdeen, a dedicated business lounge is available for all its customers We don’t want our customers to experience any behaviour that makes them feel flying from the airport and is located next uncomfortable, or be put in a situation that compromises safety. Disruptive behaviour to its departure gates. Executive lounge can include smoking, drunkenness, aggressive behaviour or abusive language towards access is also offered at Birmingham, a customer or a member of crew. Our crews are fully trained to deal with any incident of Bristol, Norwich and Cardiff for passen- this type. gers travelling on fully flexible tickets. Disobeying a command, which is lawful by a crew member, is committing an offence As you board your aircraft you will notice under the UK Air Navigation Order. Offenders who persistently misbehave on we now have a new fleet of liveried valet a flight will be handed to the appropriate authorities on arrival and may face arrest and a baggage carts for you to place larger heavy fine or up to two years imprisonment. Severe restrictions will also be placed on items of hand luggage by the aircraft their future travel with Eastern Airways.

ESSENTIAL GOINGS ON E Jones (1833-1898). © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. The Knight’s Farewell, 1858, pen and black ink on vellum by Edward Burne- world class draw class world drawings by DG Rossetti, William William Rossetti, by DG drawings important including lenders, private and public from key loans alongside collections world-class BMAG’s from works displays It staged. ever watercolours and drawings Pre-Raphaelite of survey 15 May largest the until is Gallery Art and Museum Birmingham at running currently Watercolours and Studies Designs, Raphaelite Pre- Drawing: of Poetry The

SS E NTIAL www.scottishtraditionalboatfestival.org.uk rowing to running for folk of all ages. energetic opportunities ranging from destination – providing fun-packed and Scotland as a leading active travel Scotland – a year-long focus on The event is playing its part in Active food fayre. and art. There’s also a very popular knitting, weaving, embroidery, music associated traditional crafts including boat restoration and sailing as well as the festival celebrates boat building, congregate in the historic harbour as Traditional boats from far and wide will Aberdeen, on July 2 and 3. Festival takes place in Portsoy, near The 18th Scottish Traditional Boat fe

www.bmag.org.uk associates and followers. work of the Brotherhood, their played by drawing and design in the exhibition explores the vital role revolutionised British art. This banded together in London in 1848, group of radical young artists who The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a exhibited. been previously have never that Jones Burne- Edward and Hunt Holman GO sti v al al ahoy! INGS

ON … folk dance. with six days of the best music and most inspirational cultural festivals has staged what is now of the world’s Every summer since 1947 Llangollen world, ” said Watson. as the most famous Eisteddfod in the international stars at what is known following in the footsteps of so many “I am absolutely thrilled to be first time on July 5. Festival in North Wales for the very Watson performs at the Llangollen world’s favourite voices, Russell Salford-born tenor and one of the onwards. www.llangollen2011.co.uk place in the Pavilion from Wednesday Tuesday with competitions taking school children will perform on the and Mid-Wales Opera. 5,000 primary Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, National Symphony Orchestra, the Accompanying musicians include the be joined by guest star Faryl Smith. Monday evening where Watson will starting with a gala concert on the some of the biggest names in music globe will take to the stage alongside when competitors from across the In 2011 the event runs from July 5-10 w e lcom e to wal e s pig opening at paultons

Mums and dads looking for a place to take the young ones this Easter need look no further than Paultons Park in Hampshire.

April sees the opening there of Peppa Pig World which has already made the top ten of www.themeparktourist.com’s whatever rocks your boat most exciting theme park openings of 2011. The Stranglers (above) join a string of other legendary names, including Joan The popular British made Peppa Pig Baez and Emmylou Harris, who play at cartoons are watched in 180 countries, this year’s Bergenfest from April 27 to and have chalked up more than 3 million May 1 in, of course, Bergen. dvd sales and £100m worth of retail revenue in the UK. The development is a The event, now well established in the real coup for Paultons Park which has world-class music festival calendar, secured an exclusive licence with offers everything from Rock, Pop and owners eOne for the UK and Ireland. Blues to World, Folk Music, Electronica and Hip Hop. In fact, think of a genre The heavily-themed area includes seven and you’ll probably find it at Bergenfest. rides, fun animated attractions, indoor It all takes place at up to 15 venues and outdoor play areas, a Peppa toy ranging from small clubs to concert shop and Daddy Pig’s Big Tummy Café! halls. www.bergenfest.no www.peppapigworld.co.uk major moore exhibition

In a collaboration involving Tate Britain, the exhibition Henry Moore currently running at Leeds City Art Gallery until June 12 explores the art of one of Britain’s greatest 20th-century artists. This major event includes pieces in bronze, stone and wood as well as Moore’s shelter drawings from the Blitz on London and wartime drawings of coal mining in his native Yorkshire. Pictured is Shelter Scene: Two Seated Figures, 1941, courtesy of Leeds Museums and Galleries reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation. www.leeds.gov.uk ‘New Light’ oil on canvas, 31” x 36” recent works by PAUL MUZNI Paul received a Masters in Fine Art from The Slade School of Art, London in 1998 having studied under Euan Uglow. This is the artist’s 8th solo exhibition at The Rendezvous Gallery. Saturday 11th June – Saturday 25th June 2011 Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm THE RENDEZVOUS GALLERY 100 Forest Avenue Aberdeen AB15 4TL Tel 01224 323247 www.rendezvous-gallery.co.uk [email protected] 40

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www.visitbergen.com Tourist/Local Info +47552000, Midlands, Humberside, Norwich Onward connections to Durham TeesEastern Valley, Airways flightsEast direct to Aberdeen, Newcastle. www.avinor.no/en/airport/bergen Airport +4767031555 the best fish in town! Restaurant. Enhjørningen Restaurant for Eat at Potetkjelleren, Bellevue Zachariasbryggen, both in Bryggen. Drink at Holberg Stuen or Kløverhuset for clothes. Shop at Galleriet in the city centre; on the old quayside near the fish market. mid-market Thon Bergen Brygge, both Stay at the Radisson bends of Stalheimskleiva pass. World Heritage List) and the hairpin the narrow Naeroyfjord (on UNESCO’s breathtaking Flam Railway, Aurlandsfjord, takes in the scenic Bergen Railway, the – a short tour (ideally three days) that Edvard Grieg. Do Norway in a Nutshell Troldhaugen, the home of composer hire see Europcar info on back page. scheduled buses, boat and taxi. For car The airport is served by airport buses, miles south-west of the centre of Bergen. Bergen airport Flesland is approximately 12 Hordamuseet, Jun 2-5. Jun Hordamuseet, festival, age medieval and Viking – Marknad Bjørgvin 8; 25-Jun May Festival, International Bergen 1; May 28- Apr festival, music – Bergenfest e at drink sho S v wh coming u coming b tayat atat isit isit e e rg p r at e

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Shetland Nature Festival Standing stone, Isle of Lewis Showaddywaddy where where where Twenty four miles north west of Lerwick, To the east of the town. Taxis and car One mile from the centre of Wick, half-an- Shetland’s principal town, and five miles hire are available at the airport. No hour’s drive from Thurso. Main bus and rail south-west of Sullom Voe oil terminal. The weekend flights. Mackinnon Self Drive: stations are near to Wick centre serving village of Brae is about eight miles to the +44 (0)1851 702984. most places in Caithness. Trains to south. For hire car visit www.boltscarhire. Thurso and Inverness. Post bus operates co.uk or call 01595 693 636 (no on-airport visit Thurso-Wick-Airport. Car hire: Dunnets facilities) Stornoway Museum, Francis St; offers airport pick-up and drop-off, Stornoway Fish Smokers, Shell St; 01955 602103. visit Woodlands Centre, Lews Castle Muckle Flugga, Unst. Forget John grounds; An Lanntair Arts Centre, visit O’Groats, this is the very northernmost Kenneth Street, Stornoway. Wick Heritage Museum; St Fergus Gallery, tip of Britain. Shetland Museum, Lerwick; Sinclair Terr; Pulteney Distillery, Huddart St. Jarlshof, Grutness (both mainland). Stay at Hotel Hebrides, Tarbert; Royal Hotel, Stay at Stay at Cromwell St. Mackays Hotel; The Brown Trout Hotel, Busta House Hotel, Brae; Saxa Vord Station Rd, Watten, nr Wick. Resort, Unst; Orca Country Inn, Sandwick. shop at Callanish Jewellery, Point St; This shop at shop at ’n That, Cromwell St; Borgh Pottery, John O’Groats (pottery, knitwear); Shetland Fudge, Lerwick; Jamieson Borgh (20 miles). Rotterdam St, Thurso (20 miles) & Son Knitwear, Lerwick; Valhalla Brewery, Saxa Vord. drink at drink at Clachan Bar, North Beach; Hebridean Ebenezer’s, Mackay’s Hotel; Wetherspoons drink at Bar, South Beach; Whalers Rest, and Camps Bar. Mid Brae Inn, Brae; The Lounge Bar, Francis St. Lerwick; Kiln Bar, Scalloway. eat at eat at Bord de l’Eau, Market St; Le Bistro, eat at Digby Chick, Bank St; Golden Ocean, Thurso; Captain’s Galley, Scrabster Busta House Hotel, Brae; Monty’s Bistro, Cromwell St; Thai, Church St. (22 miles). Lerwick; Saxa Vord Resort, Unst. coming up coming up coming up Bill Lawson and Local Gaelic Singers, Scottish Kayak Surf Championships, Lewis Chessmen Unmasked exhibition, Wednesday Evenings, The Harris Thurso, Apr 9-10; Caithness Model Club, Shetland Museum & Archives, until Mar Hotel, Tarbert; Lewis Chessmen annual show, Assembly Rooms, Wick, 27; 31st Shetland Folk Festival, various Unmasked exhibition, Museum nan Apr 16; Mey Market, Mey Hall, Tuesday venues, Apr 28-May 1; Shetland Nature Eilean, Apr 15-Sept 12; Hebridean from mid-May to mid-September; Festival, Jul 2-10. Maritime Festival, Stornoway, Jul 1-13; Showaddywaddy, Wick Assembly Rooms, Lewis Golf Week, Stornoway Golf Club, May 20. Jul 9-15.

Airport 01806 244900 Airport 01851 702256 Airport 01955 602215 www.hial.co.uk/stornoway-airport.html www.hial.co.uk/wick-airport.html Frequent daily charter service to Aberdeen, oper- ated by Eastern Airways for the Integrated Aviation Eastern Airways flights direct to Aberdeen. Onward Eastern Airways flights direct to Aberdeen. Onward Consortium connections to Bristol, Durham Tees Valley, East connections to Bergen, Bristol, Durham Tees Valley, Tourist/Local Info 01595 98 98 98 Midlands, Humberside, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, East Midlands, Humberside, Leeds Bradford, Liver- www.visit.shetland.org Newcastle, Norwich, Southampton, Wick pool, Newcastle, Norwich, Stavanger, Stornoway. Tourist/Local Info 01851 703088 Tourist/Local Info 0845 22 55 121 www.visithebrides.com www.visithighlands.com www.caithness.org 42

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The Deep National Media Museum Tate Liverpool where where where Fifteen miles east of Scunthorpe, 20 miles Nine miles north-west of Leeds city centre, Close to the M57, M62 and M56. Journey south of Hull, 16 miles west of Grimsby. seven miles from Bradford. Regular Airlink into city centre is seven miles, approximately Regular bus services to Hull, Grimsby, 757 bus from bus and rail stations to 20 minutes. Bus and coach stops at front of Scunthorpe, Doncaster and Sheffield. terminal. Taxi time 20-25 mins. For car terminal. Taxis from outside approx £15 to city Barnetby Station three miles from airport hire see Europcar info on back page. centre. For car hire see Europcar info on back with Intercity connections via Doncaster. page. Approx taxi fare to Hull £26. For car hire visit see Europcar info, back page. Royal Armouries, Leeds; Leeds City visit Museum, Millennium Square; National Tate Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, World visit Media Museum, Bradford. Museum Liverpool, Bug World, Beatles Museums Quarter, Hull’s Old Town; The Story Museum. Deep, Hull; Lincoln Cathedral; Ferens Art Stay at Gallery, Hull. Mint Hotel, Leeds; Radisson BLU, The Stay at Headrow, Leeds; Malmaison, Leeds; the Malmaison Liverpool, Princes Dock; 62 Stay at New Ellington, Leeds. Castle St; Hard Days Night Hotel, North Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton; Cave John St. Castle Hotel, Brough; Best Western shop at Willerby Manor Hotel, Willerby. Retro Boutique, Headingley Lane, Leeds; shop at Harvey Nichols, Briggate, Leeds; Victoria Liverpool One, Wall St; Cavern Walks, shop at Quarter, Leeds. Mathew St; Met Quarter, Whitechapel. Bailgate and Steep Hill area, Lincoln; Henri Beene (Menswear), Abbeygate, Grimsby. drink at drink at Baby Jupiter, York Place, Leeds; Fudge Korova, Fleet St; Alma de Cuba, Seel St; drink at Bar, Assembly St, Leeds; Haigys, Lumb Baby Blue, Albert Dock. The Wig & Mitre, Steep Hill, Lincoln; Ye Lane, Bradford. Olde Black Boy, High St, Hull. eat at eat at Panoramic, West Tower; Etsu Japanese eat at The Wardrobe, St Peters Square, Leeds; Restaurant, The Strand; Gusto – Albert Winteringham Fields, Winteringham; The Browns Restaurant, Headrow, Leeds; Dock, Edward Pavillion. Millhouse, Covenham; Cafe Valerie, Ujala Tandoori, Manville Terrace, Bradford. Kingsway, Cleethorpes; The Ship Inn, coming up Barnoldby Le Beck; Brown’s Pie Shop coming up Dare to Wear: Glass Dresses by Diana Lincoln. Henry Moore, Leeds City Art Gallery, until Dias-Leao, Walker Art Gallery, until 30 Sept Jun 2; Bradford Film Festival, National 2011; Liverpool Comedy Festival, various coming up Media Museum, Mar 17-27; Leeds Half venues, Apr 28-May 8; Writing on the Wall EBA World and Masters Blackball Marathon, May 8; Bradford Mela, Peel Festival, various venues, (May – dates tbc); Championships, The Spa, Bridlington, Apr Park, Jun 11-12; Great Yorkshire Show, Liverpool Sound City, May 19-21; René 20-29; Lincoln Grand Prix (cycling) 2011, Jul 12-14, Harrogate. Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, Tate May 8; Beverley Folk Acoustic Roots Liverpool, Jun 24-Oct 16. Festival, various venues, Jun 17-19.

Airport 01652 688456 Airport 0113 250 9696 Airport 0871 521 8484 www.humbersideairport.com www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk www.liverpoolairport.com Eastern Airways flights direct to Aberdeen. Eastern Airways flights direct to Aberdeen, Eastern Airways flights direct to Aberdeen, Onward connections to Bergen, Stavanger, Southampton. Onward connections to Southampton. Onward connections to Stavanger, Stornoway, Wick Stornoway Stornoway, Wick Tourist/Local Info 01482 486600 Tourist/Local Info 0113 242 5242 Tourist/Local Info 0844 870 0123 www.visithullandeastyorkshire.com www.leeds.gov.uk www.visitliverpool.com www.visitlincolnshire.com www.leedsliveitloveit.com www.yorkshire.com 44

BARE ESSENTIALS : DESTINATIONS www.eastmidlandsairport.com Airport 08719199000 www.visitnottingham.com www.visitderby.co.uk 01332 255802 / 08444 775678 Tourist/Local Info connections toBergen,Stavanger, Stornoway, Wick toAberdeen.Onward Airwaysflightsdirect Eastern music festival, Nottingham, May 29. Hardwick Hall, May 21-22; Dot to Dot Derbyshire Food & Drink Fair 2011, Festival, Q Format11 International Photography Hot Buffet, GooseGate,Nottingham. Loch Fyne,KingSt,Nottingham;Red Canal St,Nottingham. Nottingham Castle;TheWaterfront, Ye OldeTrip toJerusalem,below jewellery, artwork),Arnold,Nottingham. Nottingham; TheArtisan’s Studio(gifts, Paul Smith,MiddlePavement, St Mary’s Gate,Derby. Nottingham; CathedralQuarterHotel, Lace MarketHotel,HighPavement, Quarter, Derby. cafe barandartsworkshop,Cathedral Park, Derby;QUADgallery, cinema, Marian Way; ElvastonCastleCountry Cross; Tales ofRobinHood,Maid Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday hire seeEuropcar infoonbackpage. short bus/taxi ride from EMA. For car Rail stationsLough Nottingham, just off theM1 junction24. Twelve miles from both Derby and Eaton, Not wh coming u coming e at drink sho S v E tayat atat isit isit AST e p r at e

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bo rough, Long QUAD, Derby www.visitbirmingham.com Tourist/Local Info08448883883 toNewcastle. Airwaysflightsdirect Eastern www.bhx.co.uk Airport 08712827117 Gardeners’ World Live, NEC, Jun 15-19. Show Live 2011, NEC, Apr 13-17; BBC Transport Museum, until May 2; Gadget Le Mans Through the Ages, Coventry St. Cornwall Restaurant, BishopsgateSt;Opus, San Carlo,Temple St;Peppers Vyse St. Custard Factory;TheBoilerRoom, Spile, GasSt;TheMedicineBar, Bank, BrindleyPlace;TheTap and (Mailbox). Selfridges (Bullring);HarveyNichols Marriott, HagleyRd. Holloway Circus Queensway; Malmaison (Mailbox);Radisson, Cadbury’s World, Linden Rd, Bournville. Jewellery Quarter, Vyse St, Hockley; Chamberlain Sq; Museum of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, see Europcar infoonbackpage. Birmingham andCoventry. Forcarhire Stationfortrainsto International Link monorailsystemtoBirmingham of theM42.Connectedbyfree Air-Rail Six mileseastofthecity, off Junction6 coming u coming e at drink sho S v wh BIRMINGHAM tayat atat isit isit e p rE rE at p agtSo ieWildlifePhotographeroftheYear Gadget ShowLive www.bristolairport.co.uk Airport 08713344444 Britain, Great Western Dock Art Gallery, QueensRoad;SSGreat Egypt Gallery, BristolCityMuseum& info onbackpage. super-Mare. Forcarhire seeEuropcar return. AlsolocalservicestoWeston- city centre,time30mins.£6 journey Coach serviceapprox half-hourlyto Eight milessouth-westofBristol. www.visitbristol.co.uk Tourist/Local Info03333210101 Onward connectionstoStornoway, Wick toAberdeen. Airwaysflightsdirect Eastern global music festival, May 29. Colston Hall, Apr 29-May 1; Dot to Dot Gallery, until Jun 5; Bristol Folk Festival, The Year, Bristol City Museum and Art until Apr 25, Wildlife Photographer Of Cosima Von Bonin exhibition, Arnolfini, Chandos Road. Caines, CollegeGreen; Culinaria, Pieminister, StokesCroft; Michael Pool andLoungeBar, ParkSt. brewery, ColstonSt;TheElbowRoom Zero Degrees award-winning micro- Galleries atCribbsCauseway. Markets andBroadmead; TheMall Clifton VillageandParkSt;StNicholas Lewins, Mead. Almondsbury; HotelduVin,Narrow Aztec Hotel&Spa,West, Reef Aquarium,Harbourside. v wh coming u coming e at drink sho S BRISTOL tayat atat isit isit e p r at e

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RHS Show Norwich Puppet Theatre Titanic 2011 where where where Twelve miles west of Cardiff, 10 miles from Three miles north of the city. Hourly bus Five miles north of city. Parkway Station Junction 33 on M4. Rail link, every hour, service into the city centre. Approx taxi beside terminal, three trains hourly to connects airport to Cardiff Central and fare to Norwich £7. For car hire see Southampton and London Waterloo. Bridgend. For car hire see Europcar info Europcar info on back page. Buses hourly to the city. For car hire on back page. see Europcar info on back page. visit visit Norwich Cathedral, The Close; Norwich visit Cardiff Castle; Wales Millennium Centre, Castle, Elm Hill; Sandringham Estate, Solent Sky, Hall of Aviation, Gilbert Cardiff Bay; Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre ‘The Norfolk; Norwich Puppet Theatre, Road South; Maritime Museum, Town Tube’, Harbour Drive; Norwegian Church Whitefriars, Norwich. Quay Rd; Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth. Arts Centre, Cardiff Bay. Stay at Stay at Stay at The Maids Head Hotel, Tombland; De Vere Montagu Arms, Beaulieu; The White Star Peterstone Court, in the Usk Valley; Dunston Hall Hotel & Golf Club, Ipswich Tavern and Dining Rooms, Oxford St; De St David’s Hotel & Spa, Havannah St, Rd; Marriott Sprowston Manor Hotel & Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, West Quay Rd; Cardiff Bay. Country Club; Barnham Broom Hotel & Chilworth Manor, Chilworth; Carey’s Spa, Honingham Rd. Manor, Brockenhurst. shop at St Mary Street for specialist shops; Splott shop at shop at Market (weekends), SE of city centre. Jarrold’s, London Street; Soho Hip, WestQuay, city centre; Bargate Centre, Pottergate; Ginger Ladies Wear, Timberhill. East Bargate; Antiques quarter, Old drink at Northern Rd; Gunwharf Quays, Pen and Wig, Park Grove; Park Vaults, drink at Portsmouth. Park Place. The Fat Cat, West End St; The Adam & Eve, Bishopgate; The Wine Press, Woburn drink at eat at Court, Guildhall Hill; The Last Wine Bar, The Dolphin, Osborne Road South; The Champers, St Mary’s Street; La Fosse, St Georges St. Frog and Frigate, Canute Rd; Ocean The Hayes; Bosphorus Turkish Restaurant, & Collins, Vincent’s Walk. Cardiff Bay. eat at Tatlers, Tombland; Mambo Jambo, eat at coming up Lower Goat Lane; Umberto’s Trattoria Olive Tree, Oxford St; P.O.S.H. RHS Show Cardiff, Bute Park, April 8-10; Italia, St Benedicts St. Queensway; The Purbani, Botley. Heineken Cup Final, May 21 & Wales v Barbarians, Jun 4, Millennium Stadium; coming up coming up High Kicks and Low Life: Toulouse Lautrec The East Anglian Game & Country Fair, Welsh National Opera Spring Tour (Die Prints, National Museum Cardiff, Apr Norfolk Showground, Norwich, Apr 16-17; Fledermaus & Il Trovatore), Mayflower 21-Jun 26. Eastern funfair, Chapelfield Gardens, Apr Theatre, Mar 23-26; Titanic 2011 – 22-25; Norfolk & Norwich Festival, various Southampton Remembers, various venues, May 6-21; Holkham Country Fair, venues, Apr 13-17; Easter Fair, Jul 16-17. Southampton Common, Apr 14-25.

Airport 01446 711111 Airport 01603 411923 Airport 0870 040 0009 www.cwlfly.com www.norwichairport.co.uk www.southamptonairport.com Eastern Airways flights direct to Newcastle. Eastern Airways flights direct to Aberdeen. Onward Eastern Airways flights direct to Aberdeen, Tourist/Local Info 0870 121 1258 connections to Bergen, Stavanger, Stornoway, Wick Durham Tees Valley, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool. www.visitcardiff.com Tourist/Local Info 01603 213999 Onward connections to Bergen, Stavanger, www.southernwales.com www.visitnorwich.co.uk Stornoway Tourist/Local Info 023 8083 3333 www.visit-southampton.co.uk curry in the country guide ESSENTIAL essential GUIDE

46 fotolia.com / Anna Subbotina © Conventional wisdom has it that if you fancy a good curry, you head for the city or town centre or to an Asian district. This Essential Guide turns that wisdom on its head by inviting you to head OUT of town for your next curry!

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the Raba The Valley I first ate at the Raba, in Lerwick, The Tyne Valley boasts a number of Raaj is invariably busy. Unusual Shetland, back in the mid-90s. It good Asian restaurants, but The Valley offerings include imlidar misti hansh, qualifies for our guide largely because deserves special mention because or duck in tamarind and honey. anywhere in Shetland must be to here, in the converted station building www.le-raaj.com some extent off the beaten track. at the market town of Corbridge, you Nearest Eastern Airways airports: Newcastle, Back then this was unprepossessing can combine out of town with out of Durham Tees Valley and unpretentious and also very car. Parties pre-booking and travelling good. It was still all of these, although by train from Newcastle receive the the décor was somewhat updated, full pre-dinner service, including the Jinnah Restaurant when I visited ten years later, and it drinks, from uniformed restaurant staff In a county (now counties) in which continues to earn good reviews. aboard the train. And there’s plenty good curry is synonymous with 01595 695585 (no website) of warning as the time of the last train Bradford, the good news is that the Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Scatsta approaches this always-busy venue. urban influence has spread far and www.valleyrestaurants.co.uk wide. The Jinnah group, with outlets in Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Newcastle Sheffield, York and Harrogate, also has the Jinnah Restaurant York Stornoway Balti House Some years ago, the only Asian (Flaxton). The name may slip less The Monju Tandoori easily off the tongue, but the food is restaurant in Harris and Lewis was The Monju Tandoori is located in the good on the palate with the eat-as- behind an Asian grocery on the edge rather unprepossessing village of much-as-you-like Kashmiri buffet the of Stornoway. It was not very good. South Moor, near Stanley, in County Jinnah hallmark. The restaurant is on The Stornoway Balti House is some Durham. It finds its way into our guide the A64 midway between York and distance away, overlooking the sea on not because it is reasonably handy for Malton. the south side of town. Like its the historic Tanfield Railway or for www.jinnah-restaurants.com predecessor it is one of a kind but has Causey Park, once named the most Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Leeds earned generally very good reviews. tranquil spot in the country, but Bradford 01851 706116 (no website) because it has won prizes and earned Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Stornoway rave reviews. A recent review in the Durham Times by a self-confessed curry nut pretty much ran out of Sp ice 4U As Leeds United claw their way back The Nosheen superlatives, so it must be worth the towards upper echelons of English The Nosheen, at Ellon, on the A90 trip! football, so the well-heeled villages on north of Aberdeen, is celebrated for www.monjutandoori.co.uk the way out to Wetherby will again its haggis pakoras, served with neeps Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Newcastle and a spicy dip. The great become the preserve of Britain’s percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, best-paid profession. And Spice 4U, is among those said to have praised whose website boasts of just such a Le Raaj high profile clientèle, will doubtless be this improvisation. The Nosheen Le Raaj, at Chester Moor, at the heart very pleased! Bangladeshi fish curries (sounds like nosh but means sweet of the greenbelt between Durham and are among the specialities at this and happiness) menu also features Tyneside, has proved something of a family-owned Wetherby restaurant, haddock pakora to underline the hit since it opened less than a year which also has branches in Leeds and cross-cultural theme, while there’s a ago. This is the third outlet in a family Pickering. range of western dishes for that also includes the Capital and the www.spice4u.co.uk conservative eaters. tiny Spice Lounge in Durham City Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Leeds www.nosheentandoori.com centre. The converted Victorian Bradford Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Aberdeen chapel setting is not the only unusual facet to this excellent eatery – the inventive gourmet menu means Le >>

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The Professionals’ Choice for Business, Marine and Offshore Travel Red Fox Planet Papadum Red Indigo The ridge of hills just outside the If you’re involved in the offshore sector On the basis that one of the few good village of Tarporley, in Cheshire, in Great Yarmouth, Planet Papadum things in life to compare with a good affords views all the way to Liverpool, and it’s space-age purple hues may well curry is a good book, where better to so you can combine an excellent already feature in your universe. If you’re enjoy the former than at the UK scenic walk with a fine curry at the in Norwich, well here’s to combining a headquarters of the latter: Hay-on-Wye. popular Red Fox, in the village. This trip to the seaside with a venue that Red Indigo’s highly contemporary former pub, well patronised by calls itself “a restaurant for tomorrow”. setting and “modernised” Indian cuisine villagers too, was highly commended Specialities include maas bhuna fish offers dishes including Pakistani alfonso in the Tiffin Awards, in which MPs and nashilee chicken or lamb with wine. sweet mango curry, salmon and tiger nominate their favourite South Asian A Tiffin Award runner-up in 2009. prawn fusion, and fish egg delight. restaurant. www.planet-papadum.co.uk www.redindigo.co.uk 01829 733152 (no website) Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Norwich Nearest Eastern Airways airports: Cardiff Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Liverpool and Bristol

Pundits Regulars are happy to travel some Midlands and East Anglia distance to historic Upton on Severn to South of England dine at Pundits, where Bangladeshi specialities include pudina roshun sour The MaCh Bar and curry and the distinctive shathkora fruit. The Madhuban Restaurant If you can’t get to Upton, just enjoy the The Madhuban, in the little Hampshire The MaCh Bar and Restaurant is on innovative website! town of Liss is a Curry Club favourite the A158 a mile or so outside Lincoln www.pundits-upton.co.uk and features in that esteemed in the village of North Greetwell and Nearest Eastern Airways airports: Birmingham, organisation’s Top 100. Opened in features contemporary décor and Bristol and Cardiff 1987, the Madhuban is renowned for its traditional food, with some specials, service and has expanded in stages including Kerelan fish curry and, from its original 30 covers and still turns among the sides, masala chips for them away, despite 130 seats today. two! Rated 98 per cent by the Wales There can be few menus more Lincolnshire Echo’s Food Monster, extensive for the benefit of curry-lovers apparently! dedicated to experimentation. www.machrestaurant.co.uk The Indian Empire www.madhubanrestaurant.co.uk Nearest Eastern Airways airport: The Indian Empire, near Caldicott, Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Southampton Humberside between Newport and Chepstow, is not a quiet little diner, boasting as it does some 200 covers. But the décor and Passage to India Abid Tandoori atmosphere are light and airy and it’s a The New Forest is a magnet for No trip to the Peak District spa resort good place to go for the menu banquet aficionados of traditional English food of Matlock Bath is complete without a options for that special party. The Indian created from fresh local produce, but cable car trip up to the Heights of Empire was established in 1999 and has that doesn’t stop Lyndhurst, at the heart Abraham. Rounding it all off with a been crowned World’s Best Restaurant, of the national park, from being home to curry is surely heaven indeed and our no less, by the South Wales Argus. Passage to India, offering an suggestion is the Abid Tandoori, www.indianempire.co.uk adventurous menu, including venison specialising in Pakistani and Kashmiri Nearest Eastern Airways airports: Cardiff and duck specials. cuisine. and Bristol www.passagetoindia-lyndhurst.com 01629 57400 (no website) Nearest Eastern Airways airport: Southampton Nearest Eastern Airways airport: East Midlands

Curry 2 Night Whether you’re just off a flight to nearby East Midlands airport or enjoying the racing at Donnington Park, Curry 2 Night in the village of Castle Donnington proposes traditional Bengali and north Indian food, customised to taste. www.c2n.co.uk Nearest Eastern Airways airport: East Midlands

Recently a friend of mine returned from but failed. Scamp was unstoppable. Australia after 15 years. She brought with Though experience taught that a couple her two Jack Russell dogs. The minute “ The attacks of copies of the Radio Times stuck down the pair got into my house, they chased the back of your socks would at least limit my pup round and round, snarling and were definitely a the pain. snapping, and once he had ducked under the sofa proceeded to strut about man thing. With Why Scamp hated men so much is hard the living room cocking their legs on to say. The aunts were charitable women the furniture. “Oh, look, I’m really sorry,” women and girls – or at least they liked things that were my friend said. I assured her it was fine. free – and had got him from the local “They’re terriers, they’re male and they’re Scamp was all dogs’ home. (What criteria they used to Australian,” I said, “Frankly if they’d pick him they never said, though most of behaved in any less macho fashion I’d oily charm” those who knew the animal were forced have been sorely disappointed.” to conclude that they had simply walked in and asked the person behind the desk “Still,” she replied, “You must think they Despite this, there was a distinct for something little and vicious.) Perhaps are the worst behaved dogs you’ve ever Garbo-esque quality about the dog. It is he had been brutally treated by a male met?” said that when the great Swedish owner. Or maybe it was just the spirit of actress entered a room no man could the age. It was the 70s. Women were No, not by a long chalk. That title is held take his eyes off her. The same was true angry. So was Scamp. by my mother’s maiden aunts’ dog of Scamp. Though this had less to do Scamp. And I hope it always will be. with his radiance and more with the fact Scamp ruled the sisters’ household like Because the notion that there is a dog that if you turned away from him for an Ottoman Emperor. Once the doctor on the planet more obnoxious than he is even a split second he was likely to had come to visit one of the sisters who an idea too terrifying to contemplate. savage your calves. was sick. The sisters were often sick. Illness was their hobby. This day the Scamp was a deeply unprepossessing The attacks were definitely a man thing. doctor left his brand new homburg on the dog. His bony hide was the colour of With women and girls Scamp was all table in the hall. When he came back he slurry, his hair so smooth he was to all oily charm. He wagged his slender tail. found that Scamp had pulled it down intents and purposes bald. He had sharp He smiled winsomely. He lapped sweet and ripped it to shreds. The doctor teeth, a thin, drooping tail and entered a sherry from the palms of their hands, was angry, the sisters horrified. “Fancy room with the meek and cowed then turned tipsy somersaults at their that,” they said in outrage, “A man of his demeanour of Uriah Heep approaching feet. But with men it was a different education leaving his hat where a dog the nobility. Like Dickens’s character, matter. Too cunning to risk an all out could get at it.” though, he was filled with low cunning. frontal assault, Scamp bided his time; He snatched rusks from the hands of mastered the art of the ambush. Many Scamp died in a tragic drainpipe-related babes and urinated on the clothes horse fellows with military experience accident. We will never see his like again. when no one was looking. attempted to outwit him down the years Thank goodness. © africa / fotolia.com / africa © 50 Eastern Airways. All inclusive travel.

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