In Bristol, dropping my daughter back off at university after the Xmas break.

Porto Lounge. Check in 🗺 - Malbec 🍷

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For the sake of balance, 🍷 … (sitting outside a pub in Bristol with LOTS of ‘vintage’ signs)

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Masons Arms. Drinking a Henry’s IPA by Wadworth

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Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Claude Debussy (36), The Smiths (13), Baudo, LPO (10), Sigmatropic (6)

The best movies of 2019 that you haven’t seen 🔗 — Excerpt: This quite extraordinary film from the 28-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov was a prize-winner in Cannes; in the UK it had three showings at the London film festival and then went straight to the streaming platform Mubi. Everyone should see it.

Weekly ♫ My Top 5 artists: Cornershop (25), The Breeders (24), The Doors (23), Charles Baudelaire (10)

The Moon at Wales Millennium Centre.

Newport Railway Station (NWP). Check in 🗺 - Espresso con panna ☕️

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Rooftop terrace at Celtic Manor Resort.

Rooftop Terrace. Check in 🗺 - Ice skating and mulled wine. Just the latter for me. 🍷

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The (Quiet) Death of a Legendary Parisian Bookstore 🔗 — Excerpt: When it was announced that the legendary bookshop Le Pont Traversé would definitely close down on the 31st of December in Paris, many French TV stations put in phone calls and tried to convince Josée Comte-Béalu to do a filmed interview. She refused every single one of them.

Carmarthen Golf Club. Maurice’s birthday Sunday dinner. Check in 🗺

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Meera Sodha’s Christmas recipe for vegan achari brussels sprout curry — link 🔗