Posts in category Curiosities

AGIHK met Francisco, the chef of Viva Ana, a lovely Spanish restaurant in Hong Kong. Because he worked in London, Bilbao and he was head …

The Mercedes-Benz E-Class may be the most versatile automobile ever made, so it would be only natural for other automakers to emulate this success. However, …

I have always hated maths. Probably because I was terrible at it and I tend to hate things I can’t do… But there is one …

I wake up early, and force contact lenses into my still sleep-smeared eyes, and brush my teeth blearily in my sports bra and shorts. Then …

Safer sex and safer cars are good things, assuming that one values life more than the pleasure gained via the alternative.  Just as there are …

WHAT IS IT WITH THE ENGLISH AND FAKE PLANS? We say one thing while actually thinking about how much we don’t mean it. Ever agreed to …

There’s something decidedly autological about the word ‘awkwardness’. (For those of you using Blackberrys, whose search function is something akin to placing your phone into …

We are still in Italy, still in the north, but a little further north, in the city of Bolzano. The only way to get to …

Whilst Land Rover was consulting with “Posh”–read: ironically named cretinous slag- Spice in designing the new “Range Rover” Evoque (it is even less a Range …

I LOVE crabs (ones from the sea not the others and not to eat but to hang out with), pigs (tragically bacon too) and attempting to rap – as …