Inspiration. Travel. Life.
It soon transpires we have not been so lucky with the sleeping arrangements this time round and we’ll be spending our 14 hour overnight trip in close confines with two Hungarian ladies. One talks at us in Hungarian for a while, which we clearly don’t understand, before the other breaks her silence with an English translation. …
As it happens, the bus is an hour late. The driver does not speak English to explain/seem to care why and as we are the last pickup the only two seats available are at opposite ends of the bus. Granted it is a minibus but still, we’re not off to the best of starts. I …
It soon transpires our early arrival into Belgrade won’t be so early after all. We actually arrive a casual 3 hours later than scheduled with zero in the way of an explanation or apology. Excellent service all round. South Eastern would never get off this lightly. Already dissatisfied with the sub-par train experience I’m at …
The Southbank is arguably one of London’s greatest assets and with the summer fast approaching there’s more going on there than ever. Earlier this month we headed along to Campo Viejo’s Streets Of Spain which brought a touch of Barcelona to the banks of the Thames.
One of many culinary highlights from the Barcelona trip was a visit to contemporary cuisine centric Santa Gula– a small establishment making a big name for itself amongst locals and food oriented tourists alike.
Day three in Barcelona started in a gin bar, included hanging off the edge of a cliff and ended with paella and my first genuine enjoyment of eating squid. Here’s what happened in between.
As we had hoped, we were greeted in the morning by uninterrupted blue skies and temperatures set to reach well into the 20s for the whole day. Hooray! Cue the shorts.
“Where you going?” “Barcelona” “Oh” “Don’t get up” – Stephen Sondheim, Company Now any post that opens with a show tune is my favourite kind of post but if that’s not your thing then fear not as musical mentions are over and making way for a few more of my favourite things (oops) – travel, …
Some people hate sharing food. I am not one of those people. I love nothing more than relieving food envy by sampling other people’s breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack (occasionally asking permission first) so restaurants that encourage my favourite “sharing is caring” mantra go down very well indeed. Dishoom is exactly that type of restaurant. Billed as a Bombay …
This weekend saw me venture back to the West Country to spend some time with family and friends. The Saturday was a day of celebrations for my Aunt Susan’s Birthday and the location of choice for our gathering was Cowley Manor. Cowley is a place we’ve visited several times over the years; it’s conveniently situated …