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THE THREE HORSESHOES PUB

FOOD AND ROOMS ASTHALL, OXFORDSHIRE We set off from Daylesford on a 12 mile half an hour drive to this country pub also owned by Lady Bamford along with a few others, in fact our route took us through a village called Kingham which has a place called the Wild Rabbit (also owned by) which we tried many years back and is their more upmarket restaurant but can’t remember much about it and anyway…

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DAYELSFORD ORGANIC FARMSHOP

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ( MIDDLE OF BLOODY NOWHERE) If your from outside the London enclaves of Notting Hill, Pimlico or any of the Kensingtons and have never been anywhere near the Cotswolds or don’t mix with the Royal family or the gentry it just may be doubtful that you have no idea what Daylesford Organic actually is. We first went here twenty years ago when it was founded by Lady Bamford wife of…

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3 MORE RESTAURANTS AND A BAR AROUND MALAGA

MARISQUERIA GODOY PUERTO DE MALAGA, MUELLE UNO. JARDIN SECRETO CALLE SAN SEBASTIAN, MIJAS TABERNA GAONERA CALLE TRONCON, FUENGIROLA PANDA COCKTAIL BAR CALLE PALANGREROS, FUENGIROLA MARISQUERÍA GODOY. Last year we ate in Jose Garcia a Michelin starred restaurant in the new port area and were intrigued by this place next door. Ok it was a Sunday and many locals were out and about doing the…

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MARISQUERIA LOS MARINOS JOSE

FUENGIROLA One look at where this is and anyone who likes food would think your off your head as how could anything remotely be classed as good in a place as basic as Fuengirola but somebody told us about it while we were having a drink in the actual town in what is a fun cocktail bar called Panda Bar which is well off the sea front and this is generally where you find the better stuff even…

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MARISQUERIA EL ANCLA

SAN PEDRO DE ALCANTARA Beach club restaurant with a terrace & sea views, focusing on Andalusian seafood specialties. This was one of the few sunny days we had which was lucky as this place is really nice on a sunny day sitting on a large balcony overlooking the Med so we were all looking forward to this one even if I was driving four people in a Ford Focus with the engine power of a gnats fart…

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BACK AT LA ZAMBRA HOTEL

AVENIDA LOUISSON BOBET MIJAS GOLF So back here yet again and we do love this hotel, the rooms , the design and the staff but this being the third time and each visit being very different we will not be returning until the hotel sorts itself out as to what it actually wants to be. Nice entrance Reception The suite was good and up to the usual standard and is one of the best we’ve had anywhere…

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MALAGA AIRPORT TO LA ZAMBRA HOTEL MIJAS

Once we were able to exit the scrum from the flying cigar tube it’s that famous long walk through Malaga airport to customs and possible luggage retrieval. Why every time we’ve landed here it always feel like you’ve actually been dropped in Madrid and had to walk the rest of the way and then be overtaken by what we call the fat bus that transports so called crips to customs who you’ve seen charge…

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FROM HOME TO MALAGA

OR THE HELL YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH The last few years as I’ve aged have changed me beyond belief which is really for the worst or does the miserable old git really exist ?, lo and behold the answer is yes. Travelling now is a complete fag wether you travel 1st class which at todays prices is a complete joke, business which isn’t to bad as long as it’s not within Europe then it’s a waste of…

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PICCOLINO RESTAURANT

Henley – on – Thames While the blond was in a kind of beautifying parlour getting the paws and claws pruned and buffed it was better that I took myself off on a wander to one of the numerous over populated cafe bars that now exist in Englands green and not so pleasant high streets. Ok I admit Henley on Thames is architecturally pretty nice though being the animal that it is most places are…

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BUBBLEDOGS @ 45

THE DORCHESTER COLLECTION 45 PARK LANE, LONDON W1 ALL DOGS £22 Each I have now made a mental note to myself that anything to do with holidays food and drink that appears in the Times newspaper be burnt as soon as I turn to that page as once again it’s a bullshit write up by a journalist who once again has just gleaned the crap they’ve written from the internet or the press release sent out by…

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CLAP RESTAURANT

BASIL STREET KNIGHTSBRIDGE, LONDON W1 BRUNCH £75 pp A Saturday brunch for four at the unfortunately named Clap as our friends thought the same about the name and neither of us was thinking of the applause variety but some marketing mogul thinks it’s brilliant but it did start in Dubai so that says it all. The entrance is fairly eye catching being around 20 foot tall set in the original…

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THE RETURN TO LOFTUS ROAD STADIUM

QUEENS PARK RANGERS V WEST BROMWICH ALBION SHEPHERDS BUSH, LONDON W12 Once a year for some warped mental brain fart I have to put down in words the first home game of a new season of which I’ve been attending for 60 + odd years and still have the hopes, dreams and enthusiasm of a six year old which are usually dashed a few games later but at least I saw the Rangers when we were the top London…

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THE BOXFORD RESTAURANT

LAMBOURN ROAD BOXFORD, BERKSHIRE £149.60 Lunch for 2 + drinks This was a short Sunday lunch outing to a place that hasn’t been open that long in a place it’s named after. Boxford is a place in the middle of nowhere or about 4 miles from Newbury and is one of those places you’ve never heard of and I wasn’t sure when it was mentioned but there was a vague (and that’s normal) memory of seeing it…

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SHELLFISH COW RESTAURANT

HENLEY – ON – THAMES Henley on Thames the quintessential market town on the River Thames. Ok so thats Savills, Knight Frank estate agents bollocks that both of these just love to use in their property details as with any overpriced location throughout the UK and Henleyets sure do have their heads a long way up their quintessential rectums. Considering the amount of money around here it’s not…

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COWORTH PARK HOTEL ASCOT

RESTAURANT WOVEN BY ADAM SMITH. DORCHESTER HOTELS COLLECTION Lunch £85.00 pp drinks not included Well thank god we’re back from eating endless plates of faux pas Italian pasta dishes on a Spanish island or very dodgy sauces accompanying a half decent steak. We really have no idea as to what training or culinary skills are taught to some of these monkeys as the majority of places are worse than…

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RESTAURANT REVIEWS FUERTEVENTURA

PART 3 El Moral, Villaverde After our Wallace and Gromit grand day out to Morro Jable we returned to Villaverde for another night out with family members to a place we had visited once about twenty years ago and now obviously under different ownership and now called El Moral. It was more like a cafe snack bar originally but had been extended and re fitted with a chef from another place El Horno…

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RESTAURANT REVIEWS, FUERTEVENTURA

PART TWO. After our day trip to the new posers palace on Lanzarote where the food wasn’t actually much better than the fare we’d already eaten on this island we had all decided to eat in a couple of places in Villaverde a village where our friends live and which has grown considerably over the years and where we had bought a couple of acres of land over 30 years ago but seeing how the Island had…