I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

I am irrationally irritated by those who cast the Mediterranean in a balmy, Augustan perma-glow.

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.

I grew up on a pretty Mediterranean diet, so that's what I try to stick to.

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

As a geographic location, Greece offers the best bases in the NATO Alliance from which to operate in the trouble spots of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy.

I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.

As a geographic location, Greece offers the best bases in the NATO Alliance from which to operate in the trouble spots of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.