Not a fan of Rick Stein, although never eaten at his restaurants. His TV programmes show someone who doesn’t speak the language or get the culture of the places he visits, he just enthuses about abroad
Marcus Waring did a TV series about his East Sussex small holding (a house near Frant, so...
Yep, on the Kinki train (love the name). It’s a bit of a basic train but all the seats face forwards and the conductor swings them all round for the return journey. I’ve done the journey as a tourist and visiting a major printer manufacturer for work. Really recommend visiting the shrines
Tour de France in July - three stages lined up, including one stage that finishes one property down the road from the house of French friends. Olympics in Paris early August. Otherwise enjoying the inevitable Sussex heatwave in our garden. Will save the big holiday for winter again.
A couple of tips
Taxi doors close automatically - don't try to close them yourself or you will upset your wihte-gloved driver
If you win large numbers of ball-bearings at Pachinko. you take them to the counter and get a crappy gift like a ball-point pen. You then take that to a kiosk next...
Frankly, they could knock a good amount off travel times up the A21 by putting the gypsum back on trains - Mountfield gypsum mines have their own branch line. Their frickin' trucks are a nuisance, crawling up Silverhill