I was lucky enough to be a guest at La Grenouille on the day it won three stars…quite well deserved. Delicious soup to begin with, and a frisee salad with smoked salmon and poached egg.  And I tasted my host’s quenelle, which were ever bit as good as the review suggests. Alas, no wine, had [...]

I do love end of the world movies.  In fact, I saw 2012 today, which was bad enough to be campy, so you know I have a serious lack of dystopic standards. But little did I know when I clicked on the “upgrade!” link on Word Press, a disaster of a different kind would follow. [...]

Hope the holiday brings you lots of time for friends and family, good books, good movies, good food, and time to relax.? For Macaulay students studying abroad, keep blogging and let us enjoy vicariously through your travels!

Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel My rating: 3 of 5 stars oh, but there is SO MUCH of it! I don’t normally kvetch about long books, but this one just will not end. I am listening to it as an audio book, but also switching off to the hard copy, and both are making …