LAKE GARDA What’s the shortest book in the English language? Answer: Italian War Heroes. Ha, ha, very funny. It Is of course, a spurious...

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On any given holiday in France – and there have been many in our family - I always ponder what the French truly think of les rosbifs, the...

Every year during the Royal Three Counties Show in Malvern, the ears are assailed by a strangely familiar roar. Is that a…? No, surely...

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