Yesterday morning I sent Kyle out to bring back breakfast before a busy day in Edinburgh. I suggested Pret since it’s near to where we’re staying, but he went one better by […]
After Thursday’s disappointment at the Clarendon Hotel Caroline wants to make sure that dinner on her first evening in Edinburgh is memorable for all the right reasons … It is testament to […]
Caroline is glad to have a good excuse to enjoy a decent lunch in Segovia… One of the benefits of having to take a later train back to Madrid from Segovia was […]
As some readers will know, we were very disappointed when Mirabelle closed suddenly, earlier this year, in part because we had an unused voucher which had been a Christmas gift and in […]
Last Friday evening, I took Kyle on in a particularly fierce game of table tennis. Midway through the ping-pong war, we decided to raise the stakes by putting something on the outcome […]
Like many other lucky people, I was invited to visit Zaap Thai Street Food as it opened its doors on the 18th of May for a quick look round and some free […]
It’s a great shame that so many Brits see Orlando as the be-all and end-all of Florida and worse still that they seem to descend in droves in the summer when the […]
If you mention frequenting charity shops to many people, they might assume you are perhaps slightly odd, or have just decided to be a bit cheap! They are wrong. A charity shop […]
La zi Ji or Chicken with chillies is certainly not one of the more complicated or more ‘interesting’ Sichuan dishes on offer in the fantastic Sichuan Cooking cookbook by Fuchsia Dunlop (who is the expert on Sichuan cooking […]
Since finding out I’m pregnant, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol. This has been fine most of the time, although there were moments over Christmas and New Year in particular when […]