Do you know your maki from your uramaki, or your nigiri from your sashimi? All I knew was I liked eating all  types of sushi, but I had...

One happy result of this enforced confinement to our own shores is that we have been given the perfect reason to get out and about a bit...

The most important thing we learnt during our first trip to the vibrant city of Bristol, was that 24 hours in this buzzing cultural hub...

Bath; a world heritage city of Roman and Georgian architecture; synonymous with Jane Austen and mineral rich spring water. Compact and...

Introducing the first in an occasional series of local heroes, featuring stories from people in Bedfordshire. A few years ago our Bedford...

We love visiting the seaside in Winter. Just before Christmas, we took advantage of the brief window between lockdowns that meant we...

We had never visited Felixstowe until a few weeks ago. Never even thought about visiting it (Im now a little ashamed to say). My...

Well, what a strange time we’ve all been having; grounded, so to speak. With adventures of the travel variety on hold, we have all found...

The recent “strange times” have provided us with a great opportunity for a 2 week house/petsitting assignment in Amble, Northumberland....

The tradition of buying wine “loose” (en granel), from specialist wine cellars is familiar to us from our travels in Andalusia, where...

Bedford, Bedrock, B’Town, call it what you will…there is no denying that Bedford has some excellent independent eateries. All my...

I have long been a fan of Lebanese and “Middle Eastern” food in general. I would get my regular “fix” at the fabulous café/shisha bar,...

Friends often ask me if there is any food I miss when I’m in Spain and am usually pretty stumped by this question (I admit to stashing...

A couple of months ago, I spied a post on facebook putting out a call for volunteers to help onBedfordshire’s newly established (and...

Indian food is, I think, my favourite cuisine (so far). It’s a bold statement, but I have a lifelong love of it. My parents, in their...

A couple of weeks ago, at a loose end on a blustery Saturday afternoon during this somewhat elusive summer of ours, we enlisted our...

I am very lucky to have family who relocated to this small and friendly seaside town on the Northumberland heritage coast a few years...