Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 December 2020 A few of my more random reviews of terrific books are: 1 Roy Lewis The Evolution Man (also Sci Fi), 2 Sean Dooley (on birds), 3 Giulia Enders Gut, 4 Marie Kondo Tidying, 5 Secret City (Canberra spy series), 6 Atoms, Bytes, Genes (21st C convergence in science), 7 EM Foner Union Station …
Johannes Vermeer Paintings
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 13 April 2020 When I was at school (a very long time ago) the corridors were festooned with dark dusty copies of impressionists and probably even a Vermeer. When I first went to Paris, I was gobsmacked by the Impressionists in the Jeu de Paume, and similarly with Vermeer in Amsterdam and Den Haag. They …
The Second Coming WB Yeats
Featured Image: WB Yeats, Poetry Foundation from Chicago History Museum Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 February 2018 Although, I’ve written book reviews on Classic Science Fiction, a few on Detective & Crime Fiction and three on food writing. I haven’t dwelled on anything literary except for four articles: 1 False Memories and the Mill on the Floss, 2 The …
Bosch 500th Centenary Exhibition, The Prado 2016
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 November 2016 When I was at school (a very long time ago) the corridors were festooned with dark dusty copies of impressionists and probably even a Vermeer. When I first went to Paris, I was gobsmacked by the Impressionists in the Jeu de Paume, and similarly with Vermeer in Amsterdam and Den Haag. They …
Dog Story
Featured image: Jack, Dukie and Denise Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 20 September 2016 Doggie Tails Original title, which I much prefer. House-sitting, Buckinghamshire, UK Setting The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England. We were house-sitters in two locations here in Buckinghamshire during the summer of 2014. The first place we spent one week, had a …
AirBNB Adventures 1: Italy & Sicily 2012
Featured image: View of Ortygia Island, the historical centre of Syracuse, Sicily Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 25 May 2016 AirBNB Adventure 1: Florence to Syracuse, Italy & Sicily 2012 Introduction In thinking about this series, I decided to contact all my previous AirBNB hosts to ask whether they were still active and wanted to be identified specifically or …
Giulia Enders, Gut
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 21 February 2016 — updated 18 June 2024 A few of my more random reviews of terrific books are: 1 Roy Lewis The Evolution Man (also Sci Fi), 2 Sean Dooley (on birds), 3 Giulia Enders Gut, 4 Marie Kondo Tidying, 5 Secret City (Canberra spy series), 6 Atoms, Bytes, Genes (21st C convergence in …
Postcard from The Rock of Cashel
Featured image: The Rock of Cashel, Old Tower, 1101 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 24 January 2016 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series so …
Luhmühlen Horse Trials 2014
Featured image: Lucinda Fredericks AUS Flying Finish, Jump 5 ICE-VIBE Oxer, Luhmühlen 2014 Breadtag Sagas ©: Authors Denise & Tony, 25 November 2015 I wrote four articles around our house-sitting in Großenkneten in Lower Saxony for two months in 2014, and about our limited travel in Germany during this period. We had a wonderful time in Germany and think very …
What travel costs 6: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Featured photo: Old City of Dubrovnik, walls & Lokrum Island Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 26 August 2015 I started my series of travel writing with a bee in my bonnet about what things cost. In once sense it is a nice snapshot in time of how much the type of long leisurely travel we tended to do did …
What travel costs 5: Germany
Featured photo: Newly sown field near Großenkneten Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 15 August 2015 I started my series of travel writing with a bee in my bonnet about what things cost. In once sense it is a nice snapshot in time of how much the type of long leisurely travel we tended to do did cost. It made …
What travel costs 4: eight months in Europe
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 30 July 2015 I started my series of travel writing with a bee in my bonnet about what things cost. In once sense it is a nice snapshot in time of how much the type of long leisurely travel we tended to do did cost. It made me learn the subtle art of forensic accounting …
Hieronymus Bosch Painter, 1450-1516
The featured image is The Garden of Earthly Delights 1500-05 Triptych: Central panel 220×195 cm; wings each 220×97 cm, Madrid Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 7 July 2015 When I was at school (a very long time ago) the corridors were festooned with dark dusty copies of impressionists and probably even a Vermeer. When I first went to Paris, I …
Postcard from Vienna: Michaelerplatz sculpture
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 28 June 2015 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series so far are: 1 Boudhanath Stupa, Nepal, 2 Dubai, UAE, 3 …
British Food — an appraisal of the middle
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony May 2015 Trip to the UK 16 July to 16 September 2014 In Britain or in far-flung outposts around the world in what either used to be the British Empire or in countries influenced by Britain, one meets the British. And when the conversation turns to food, the Brits inevitably bore you about how …
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