The Foody Traveller
So many of the Viking sagas are tales of revenge, death and violence you could be forgiven for thinking that Saga Land , the book written by Richard Fidler and Kári Gíslason might be pretty gruesome; actually, some of it is! Yet there is also something of a dreamlike gentle quality to the book. Maybe […]
Enjoy a luxurious week long sailing itinerary taking in the Sicilian Aeolian Islands on fully skippered catamarans, each with its own private chef and hostess. SailSterling, the company, behind these brand new sailing tours, has personally crafted the immersive itineraries through their expertise and knowledge of the area. Spectacular Sicilian Aeolian islands The six night […]
It has to be said that No 1, Unit 4 Finsbury Avenue, Broadgate was not the easiest of places to find. I was completely lost but luckily my friend ‘S’, also lost but less so, had tracked it down and had arrived at Baraka before me, and was therefore able to talk me in from […]
In spite of all her protests friends of Anna Hyman still maintain that her visit to the Nord-Pas- de -Calais region of France to learn more about brewing was actually one glorified pub crawl! There used to be scores of small local breweries in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of Northern France but with the decline of […]
Nearly 100 years ago, in 1922 to be precise, two men, archaeologist Howard Carter and his financial backer and Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon, made a hole in a door of a tomb and found themselves peering into the resting place of a young man aged 19 who had died some 3300 years earlier. Their discovery was […]
‘Menus that Made History’ should come with a warning on the cover; because once picked up and opened it is near impossible to put the book down. Start reading and each menu enticingly leads you to the next rather like the courses of a delicious and skilfully planned and executed meal. We cannot begin to […]