Last week I went out for dinner with some ‘wine friends’. We always go to a lovely restaurant where the owner lets us bring our own wine – and the pressure is on to bring a really interesting/unusual/just-rather-fine-please bottle of wine to taste blind and share with tapas. With all the recent TV coverage of […]

Ivica Vastic must be a national hero after last week’s stay-of-execution for Austria in Euro 2008. Austria might not often find itself celebrating the success of its football heroes (last September over 4,000 Austrian fans actually petitioned for their national side not to play in the tournament, given the team’s poor form) but it should […]