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 […]
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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 – […]
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 […]
Roots, York
We don’t do lunch. Well, not proper lunches. Not Prawn cocktail, great slabs of roast beef and Black Forest gateau. (Why ever not, you cheapskates?…Ed). Usually it’s maybe a simple […]
The Hare, Scawton, North Yorkshire
The Hare has been on the list for a while now. In fact, it’s nearly five years since Paul and Liz took over a failing pub and we still hadn’t […]
The Kitchin, Leith
Let’s get this right out of the way at the beginning, without any preamble; dinner at The Kitchin was absolutely perfect. No question. One of the very best. So, 11/10 […]
Black Swan, Oldstead, North Yorkshire
We’re watching the 2016 Great British Menu on BBC2. No, it’s not in the same league as Bake Off, but it does showcase some great cooking from around the British […]
