
Resolutions and bucket lists
My one and only New Year’s resolution is to whittle away at my bucket list. I’m increasingly conscious of the limited time we have on

My one and only New Year’s resolution is to whittle away at my bucket list. I’m increasingly conscious of the limited time we have on

I took Art in school. I can’t draw but in my early teens I quite fancied myself as an impressionist. Daubing various splotches of different

You might pass Szentpétery Vera on the street in Gödöllő without registering her. If you didn’t know better, you might think her just another ordinary

‘So’, I said, ‘what do you want to do?’ My visitor technically wasn’t my visitor at all. I’d borrowed him for the afternoon from a

I’m as guilty as anyone for undervaluing both my own work and that of others. I tend to overlook the time it takes to do

Dining out alone one evening lately, I got into conversation with a couple of Canadian tourists who were on a driving holiday through the region.

I’m fussy about my pubs. I’m even fussier about foreign pubs that claim to be Irish. They need to be Irish owned with at least

I was reintroduced recently to the joy of simple living and reminded that the value of simplicity is something we’re in danger of overlooking as

Not that long ago, the hive of activity that is Taksim Square in the European part of Istanbul was in the news all over the

I’ve never been more aware of the fact that I am partial to a glass of wine or two than when I was in Istanbul.