A while ago I wrote about my trip to Guernsey and a mixed experience with wine, seemilk-of-human-kindness
If only I had realised that hidden away from the German occupation between 1940 and 1945 were some exceptional bottles of wine, that have recently come up for auction. They were kept from the Germans by Bucktrout and Co in a windowless room somewhere on the island. Amongst the collection were some 1920s clarets an 1878 bottle of Champagne and some ports of similar vintage.
The sale fetched £50,000. Impressive.

These days it is increasingly hard to do anything without being monitored. A good example of this is Google Street View, a new service which literally enables you to walk down the streets of major towns in the UK. Here is my nearest wine merchant for example, I am sure if you were to scroll around a bit you could see me caught on Google's cameras strolling through Cambridge. A friend of mine said that you could even zoom into the window of her house and see what was in her open wardrobe.

Couple Google Street View with our current obsession with CCTV (I was even inadvertently filmed by a CCTV camera recently while dining at a restaurant alfresco), and it appears that there is now no place to hide yourself or your fine wine.
At least, unlike CCTV you can seem to get Google to remove images from Street View as reported today by BBC news online.

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