Vanessa’s Deli, Beverley, East Yorkshire
A chance find on a trip to Minster Cycles in Beverley. This small deli and café produces wonderful, simple and tasty food. The mushroom and blue cheese soup was as […]
Category Archives: Europe
The Star in the City, York
We’ve got a small selection of flat caps [is it Yorkshire?], three in fact. By a chance of fate, one of them actually came from Yorkshire. The other two have been […]
Sharrow Bay, Ullswater, Lake District
We used to sail a little dinghy on Ullswater, keeping it on the shore in a friendly [and cheap] field on the northern shore. It was a Cornish Coble which […]
Angel Inn, Hetton, North Yorkshire
June 4th. Hot and sunny, the sheep are in the shade of the trees, sheltering from the searing Yorkshire sun, the air still and heavy with the scent of spring/summer* […]
Bens d’Avall, Mallorca
In the search for some sunshine – long absent in Yorkshire this year [though we haven’t had much rain so business as usual then] – we set off for a […]
J K Place, Firenze
This year [hopefully] sees a return to Florence. There’s so much to see and the atmosphere, well, just heaven at any time of year. This time it will probably be […]
Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor
Thinking about the recent post on the Art School in Liverpool, it was hard to think of a food that epitomises that great city. We have a sister-in-law whose parents […]
The Art School, Liverpool
That great conurbation of Manchester and Liverpool [and Salford, Rochdale etc] – dubbed the new Northern Powerhouse by Her Majesty’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne – is surprisingly deficient […]
Portrait Suites, Rome
Our italian road trip saw us visit Rome for the first time in many, many years. You really need to live here to appreciate the wealth of history – a […]
Villa Bordoni, Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
We’ve always believed that wine you drink on holiday doesn’t travel well and tastes completely different in the searing heat of the Yorkshire summer. About twenty years ago we visited […]
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