I dined like a medieval king on delicious beef carpaccio, tagine and buckets of sorbet.
On Wednesday night News Corp editors dined with their boss, Rupert Murdoch, in Sydney.
The original version said Whittaker dined with Rupert Murdoch.
Guests arrived at 7pm and dined at 8.15pm, with "carriages at midnight".
The trip focused on sightseeing, and we dined out at quality restaurants, including Hostaria Costanza, within the walls of the ancient Pompei theatre, and Il Piccolo Mondo, famous since the 1960s for its movie star clientele.
Their VIP guest, flown 100 miles inland from Muscat where he dined last night with Sultan Quboos, duly reflected the sobriety of the occasion.
The silence from the Lib Dems, who dined off Muslim votes in the aftermath of the Iraq war, has been deafening.
Mr Chirac has been in politics for almost 40 years, serving the taxpayers but also, at their expense, being dined, wined and lodged in a splendour that most can barely imagine.
IN JULY 2001 six Barclays investment bankers dined at Petrus, a posh restaurant in London's St James's.
He dined out on it, and got breakfast too.His part in the actual robbery was small.
ON SEPTEMBER 18th, as Scots rejected independence at the polls, David Cameron dined on curry with George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer.
