We don’t often do travel posts, what with being Edinburgh-focused. Sometimes, though, we get offers that are too good to turn down. Last week I started my holiday by going to St Andrews for a night at Kinnettles Hotel, and having dinner at The Tayberry restaurant. It was a great…
Birthdays are a time for celebration, some would say but when you hit a significant number the birthday wishes come in all sorts of disguises.
In this fast paced world of travel, there’s something rather romantic and civilised about train travel. I’m obviously not talking about commuter trains, but reliving the Golden Age of travel and taking a steam train on a scenic journey through the Scottish countryside, all in the comfort of a beautifully…
I’m sitting late one Friday afternoon in a micropub. Until a few moments ago I had never heard of a micropub, let alone had been in one. This one, Rutherfords, in Kelso is the only one in Scotland. Scattered across the UK there are more than 230. A Micropub is…
I’ve chosen a good day to write this post. There are special days in Edinburgh when the sun is shining and the sky is a beautiful blue. There’s usually a crispness to the air and today is no exception – a good breeze is blowing. It’s something I wish I could…
Imagine going into a bar in your town and you find rubbish strewn across the floor. You’d probably walk straight out, wouldn’t you? Not in the Basque Country. This is a sign that the bar serves very good pintxos. These are small morsels of food, often but not always, served…
I’ve you’ve never visited Japan, how would you describe it? Is your abiding impression of strange game shows, Manga, Memories of a Geisha or perhaps the film “Lost in Translation (which I actually think is more about the effect of jet lag). For us, the inability to understand the Japanese…
At this time of year, we start thinking about vacations. Let me introduce you to a place that is the capital of cutlery and rather unexpected. A unexpected city We are walking through the centre of the old town in Thiers ‘the cutlery capital” of France. Thiers is located not…
Dubrovnik is an extremely busy place, huge cruise ships arrive day in day out in the summer. In the walled city, tourists throng through the streets which are all pedestrianised. Visitors soon find that they need very strong legs to walk up and down the steep steps to where many…
Why do I write a food blog? Wherever I go, food is a great starting point for a conversation. Those passionate about food are some of the loveliest people you could hope to meet, whether they are growing the product, cooking it, writing about it or indeed promoting it, and…
