Grand Café 1st Classe Amsterdam Station
Overnight on the Newcastle-Amsterdam ferry. It couldn’t have been easier. Parked the car, walked straight on, booked a table for an excellent dinner and then bed. We docked at 09:45 […]
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I Cucci, Palermo
First night in Palermo. We’ve run the gauntlet of the market – by the time we’d arrived on the bus from Catania most of the stalls were packing up and […]
La Locanda dei Monacone, Napoli
Great – we can book this one. 7pm or 9pm. We’re old – guess which we go for? We’ve had a busy day strolling around Napoli. Tomorrow we head for the National […]
Socious, Burnham Market
First of three nights of heaven in Norfolk. A place of many memories when our children were small – dodging the incoming tide across the salt marshes, paddling across the […]
La Faim des Haricots, Toulouse
A one night stand, as it were, to make hotel availability work between the Spanish Paradore and Carcassonne. We’re in a simple but quirky hotel right by the river (the […]
L’Adresse, Sarlat
Scene of great family holidays so long ago, this was a sentimental revisit. A place where our two very young sons opted to eat at a pizza place a few […]
Vine House Café, Helmsley
After the wet [wet??…Ed] January and February we snatched a couple of shortish walks to stop us going round the bend…even more than we are now. The Dales are always […]
Heredad Beragú, Spain
First proper stop on our road trip. We arrived in Bilbao very early and motored to the Arts Hotel. A proper grown up smart international hotel with uniformed staff who […]
Sanders Yard Bistro, Whitby
Spring! IS NEARELY HERE! Well, its late February and the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the serving staff at Sanders Bistro can’t do enough for us, so […]
Isla, Durham
Well, it’s not Yorkshire (soon be a new category, alongside England…Ed) but it’s but a short train ride. Durham – beautiful cathedral city (nine arches) and incredibly well respected university. […]
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