Tag: bogart
Casablanca
Director: Michael Curtiz United States, 1942 Casablanca needs no introduction, except maybe the first few bars of As Time Goes By. It’s a masterfully told, elliptical yarn about a difficult period and after so many decades, it’s too easy to overlook the fact that it was contemporary to those times. Bogart’s world weary ex-pat Rick …
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Easter in Munich
J and I visited Munich over the Easter break. The sun was out and the beer was flowing. The seat of Bavarian power in centuries past, Munich has been the home of …
- Originally published: 12 Apr 2007 in Europe
A glimmer of London summer
We took a train down to London recently to visit J’s sister. It turned out to be a rare hot weekend in the midst of this disastrously wet summer. Sisters. As if …
- Originally published: 13 Aug 2007 in UK
Katrina was here
Two years on, New Orleans is struggling to rebuild after Katrina. …
- Originally published: 18 Jan 2008 in North America
Valencia
J and I visited the venerable Catalonian city of Valencia on the eastern coast of the Iberian peninsula. The city is an unusually harmonious mix of old and new: the ciutat vella …
- Originally published: 11 May 2007 in Europe
Casino Royale
Overhyped but not overboard: a solid, reliable performance from the new, edgy and unpredictable Bond. …
- Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not the Princeton curator, the US senatorial candidate, the Kentuckian pastor or the journalist from Arizona. In fact, I work as a consultant in User Experience and Information Design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Ellezelloise Hercule.