People are giving me very strange looks when I tell them I am going to Israel. As if to say ‘you can’t mean the Israel in the Middle East, just down the road from Iraq….?’. The foreign office website says don’t go there under any circumstances, the Euro 2004 qualifier between Israel and France has…
Things are not going to plan this winter. In January I was suffering arctic temperatures in New York, and now I am heading for Toronto in February. This is not what is supposed to happen. February should be meetings with food companies in the southern hemisphere sun – Cape Town, Sydney, or Rio. But no,…
I have always felt quite at home in an aeroplane. It’s one of those times when you feel no guilt at doing absolutely nothing except stare dreamily out of the window, take your shoes off, and drink champagne. That is until I was on my latest South African visit and spending a night at the…
It’s Wednesday, 2nd January, early morning, and the outside temperature gauge registers -5°C as we arrive at Luton airport. This is the start of a week when I am going to forget all about Food Production, and concentrate on Wine Production, and of course it’s consumption. We are leaving for the Valais region of Switzerland,…