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EASTERN AIRWAYS IN-FLIGHT Yours to keep 56 | Summer 2016 STEP UP TO STAVANGER Looking forward to ONS 2016 ALSO IN THIS MAGAZINE: COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL OF THE YEAR ROALD DAHL EXPLORING COVENTRY WELCOME Welcome to Eastern Airways Magazine! Welcome on board your Eastern Airways flight and the trail of the great children’s author, Roald Dahl, in the welcome to this Summer issue of Eastern Airways year of the centenary of his birth. Magazine. Further afield, you can find out about what’s going on in We present you this time with a veritable pot pourri of Rodez and the department of Aveyron, Eastern Airways’ features, offering something for everyone to whet the new destination in France. appetite. Still overseas, we preview Stavanger’s ONS conference On which subject, quite literally, we try out the best and exhibition. This biennial event is, of course, one of the Argentinian beef at Gaucho’s impressive Leeds steak two key must-attends in the offshore industry’s calendar. house, while also rolling up our sleeves and working in the Back on home soil, Exploration Express this issue kitchen at Newcastle’s Michelin Star House of Tides. encounters both surprise and delight in Coventry and its To wash it all down, Harry Pearson presents the low-down surroundings. on the new micropub phenomenon that’s sweeping the Our competition this time offers the chance to win a two- UK, while we’ve the exclusive story of how the creator of night stay for two, with dinner on one night, at Sunderland’s Birmingham’s celebrated Custard Factory bought a very newly opened Hilton Garden Inn. Eastern Airways flights to remote hotel in Scotland with help from a lady with a crystal Newcastle are also included. ball. So, enjoy your flight with Eastern Airways and do take your If all that sounds a bit too indoors for Summer, then Victoria magazine home for family and friends. Trott has some great ideas for outdoor adventure in South Wales, while Kevin Pilley is also in that part of the world on THE EASTERN TEAM FÀILTE CROESO VELKOMMEN BIENVENUE Tha Eastern Airways a’ cur fàilte Croeso gan Eastern Airways Eastern Airways magasinet Bienvenue à tous nos clients de air ar luchd-cleachdaidh gu lèir magazine, i bob un o’n ønsker våre kunder i Grande-Bretagne et d’Europe bho Bhreatainn agus an Roinn cwsmeriaid ym mhob rhan o Storbritannia og Europa de la part de Eastern Airways Eòrp. Brydain Fawr ac Ewrop. velkommen. magazine. Tha Eastern Airways am measg Mae Eastern Airways ymhlith y Eastern Airways er et av Eastern Airways figure parmi les prìomh làn-sheirbheisean adhair prif gwmnïau awyrennau yn y Storbritannias ledende principales compagnies clàraichte na RA. 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TÎM EASTERN SGIOBA EASTERN L’ÉQUIPE EASTERN Local Solutions for Individual Customers Worldwide A WORLD LEADER IN THE MANUFACTURE OF HYDRAULIC PIPEWORK, COMPONENTS AND ACCESSORIES With over 12,000 hydraulic products inside... contact us to order your copy of the STAUFF Contact Centre of Excellence for us for Offshore Oil and Gas products CATALOGUE your copy Badentoy Avenue, Badentoy Industrial Estate, Portlethen, Aberdeen AB12 4YB Tel: +44 (0)1224 786166 Fax: +44 (0)1224 786177 www.stauff.co.uk Email: [email protected] Other UK locations STAUFF hose assemblies … certified for all applications Ireland: 02892 606900 Sheffield: 0114 251 8518 Southampton: 023 8079 9518 STAUFF are proud to sponsor Team WD-40 CONTENTS CONTENTS 15 BEST BEEF 24 SEE STAVANGER 33 DISCOVERING DAHL REGULARS COMPETITION FEATURES 07 NEWS 11 AVEYRON What’s happening around Eastern What's going on in and around Airways destinations Eastern Airways’ new French destination 16 MOTORING The times are a changing for 15 FOOD AND DRINK motor sports says Norman Burr Beefing it up at Leeds’s Gaucho restaurant and Michelin star 22 BOOK REVIEWS cooking in Newcastle’s House Good summer reads of Tides 30 EXPLORATION EXPRESS 18 HOUSE OF DREAMS Stan Abbott is sent to Coventry How a fortune teller helped Bennie and returns with an uplifting tale Gray buy an extraordinary hotel 38 BARE ESSENTIALS 39 STAY IN THE CITY BY 24 ONS 2016 Eastern Airways’ network map, THE SEA Stavanger’s leading conference passenger information, essential WIN a two night break in and exhibition for the offshore and goings-on and destination guides Sunderland’s new Hilton gas sector – preview Garden Inn 48 ESSENTIAL GUIDE: 33 ROALD DAHL MICRO PUBS CENTENARY All within easy reach of Eastern The enduring affection for the Airways destinations popular children’s author 50 THE LAST WORD 36 WILD WALES Harry Pearson runs up the flag for Where to make the most of the traditional seaside resort Wales’s Year of Adventure Eastern Airways in-flight magazine is published © June 2016. 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