All too often when I visit Switzerland in the winter, it’s part of a mad dash through Geneva airport, usually struggling under the weight of skis and ski boots, straight into a minibus and off to the mountains and the ski chalet. Or in the summer, more often than not, it’s a mad dash through the […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #313
Maman by Louise Bourgeois – Guggenheim Bilbao, April 2018
Click here for a full portionLentils with roasted pumpkin and chilli-marinated feta
When I was searching for a New Year’s quote as an opening line to this blog post, the kind of things that kept coming up either perkily referenced how the year lay before us like a blank page waiting to be written/blank canvas waiting to be painted/journey waiting to be embarked upon/ bla bla bla; […]
Click here for a full portionThe Neff gingerbread house bake-off
Confession: despite now having been foodblogging for nearly 15 years, I have never baked a gingerbread house – or even decorated a ready-made one from a kit. I know, right? You’re thinking to yourselves “and she calls herself a food blogger… seriously?!” But the truth is I have always been more of a cook than […]
Click here for a full portionSouth West Wales road trip: Welsh wine and cheese in Carmarthenshire
“You’re staying at a wine estate… where?” Not quite the the wildly envious reaction I usually hear from my friends when I announce that I am going on a press trip… but then it’s not every day that I tell them that I am off to visit a wine farm in South West Wales. […]
Click here for a full portionReview: Sushi in the City @ The Devonshire Club [CLOSED]
What could be more British than the traditional gentlemen’s club? The earliest of these members’ only clubs were established in London’s West End with the idea of being a place where gentlemen of means could gather, socialise, eat, drink, smoke and gamble away from the concerns of politics and business… and womenfolk (who were ineligible […]
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