It’s winter again and I’m back in the UK so I thought I’d give this coffee post another shot of thanks.
Coffee – a pleasure in life
Coffee and I are well-acquainted. We meet often, frequently in a motorway services. The setting is big, like a strange spaceship, but the point is the caffeine – especially in winter.
Winter in the UK is sock damp and everywhere, smudged beyond the windowpane into a world that hides in its own armpit – head down, surviving.
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A look back (first published 12 February 2015): this was an evening that confirmed what I had begun to realise about driving in Naples … that rules and road rage are for wimps, and that care and courage are what’s needed. As well-trained wimps we had a lot to learn.
The roads that dive off the tangenziale into Naples
“Are you sure you know the way?”
“Yes.”
“Is it really better than my way?”
“Yes.” Louder, wounded, exasperated, emphatic.
“Okay – your directions have got to be clear.” Ominous …
The tyres rattle and echo off the tunnel walls. It’s six o’clock in the evening, a bright, dark night and all of Naples seems in a rush to get somewhere.
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A look back (first published 20 October 2014)
An unusually quiet moment in one of the large cobbled tunnels that lead in and out of the centre of Naples
Nothing is ever quite what you expect it to be …
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The Phraser 