Riley’s Fish Shack, Tynemouth
Often promised but very nearly never realised. Our last attempt to visit this fish heaven saw The Shack closed for a new arrival. Our alternative choice wasn’t worth recording so […]
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Mademoiselles, Whitby
The seaside towns along the Yorkshire coast divide, almost, neatly into two types. Staithes, Runswick Bay, Sandsend and Robin Hood’s Bay are fashionable, charming reminders of times gone by when […]
Crinan Hotel, Crinan, Argyll
Your view out across the water is interrupted by a rather mean looking whirlpool in the middle of the sea – the Corryvreckan no less. We’ve been through it a […]
Augusta Insula, Zaklopatica, Lastovo, Croatia
We’d hoped to sail the 36Nm from Vis to Lastovo but the wind was frustratingly against us. We could have happily tacked all day but, with a storm coming, we […]
Konoba Sesula, Solta, Croatia
Day one sees the motley crew set sail in mid afternoon, the first two arrivals having done all the provisioning bar the water and the beer. It’s all a bit […]
Konoba Lola, Vis, Croatia
Our visits to Vis town, on the island of Vis, have usually seen us eating in the paradise garden at Villa Kaliopa, located at the Kut end of the bay. […]
Murano, London
It’s been a bit of an Italian summer – not the temperatures up in Yorkshire – but the language training in the Veneto and Torcello. Compared with last summer – […]
Thackeray’s Restaurant, Tunbridge Wells
A funny sort of a day. It’s Day 2 of the new PM, that dastardly figure Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, generally rumoured to be an habitual liar and someone […]
Locanda Cipriani, Torcello
We’re on an Italian refresher course (well, one of us is) cycling around the Veneto to the west of Venice. We’ve done this cycling thing before, down the Danube from […]
Lisa Chapman’s Pop-Up at the Endeavour, Staithes, North Yorkshire
We really miss the Endeavour Restaurant in Staithes. What we don’t miss is the constant squawking of the seagulls. Day and night. A small but welcome little decanter of sherry […]
