À La Verrière
Continuing the Great Post Covid Expedition To France we spend the night in Beaujolais. Travelling through France is like a circular tour of your best local off licence (or supermarket […]
Continuing the Great Post Covid Expedition To France we spend the night in Beaujolais. Travelling through France is like a circular tour of your best local off licence (or supermarket […]
Wow. We’re on holiday! First time since late 2019, before the Great Covid Pandemic. So much missed time, especially when you’re old and you can’t afford to let 3 years […]
Do you think the days of one, two or three Michelin restaurants are over? Or the dreaded ‘27 course tasting menus’? We were reading about that restaurant at the end of […]
So, we’re in a heatwave. Likely to be the hottest EVER! Met Office issues first ever Red Heat Warning. Might be 40deg, although such hyperbole is rarely realised and it’s […]
Great, highly consistent food, excellent wine by the glass (175ml), carafe, or bottle. Really good white burgundy at about £12 a glass. Not cheap but stunning. “Sharing plates”…what on earth […]
During two years of The Great Pandemic we’ve had just five days away. Two at Inver in July 2020, and three at the Drunken Duck in September 2021 when it […]
So, after two years of scrupulous self protection (the full works – quarantining the post, masks, food deliveries, isolating from practically everyone) we’ve finally caught Covid. Now that we’re triple […]
Whitby in the winter. Cold, windy and bright brisk walk along the beach from Sandsend (have you seen the house prices in Sandsend!!!…Ed) to Whitby, about 45 minutes. Getting the […]
Northallerton. Population 16,832. County town of North Yorkshire. Home to one of Bettys outliers. Barkers wonderful department store. The Aladdin’s cave that is Lewis & Cooper – the north’s (better) […]
Bath. It really is splendid. The miles of elegant stone terraces are for Bath what Persimmon is doing everywhere else. Well, that’s a touch unkind; Bath saw a great expansion […]