Oct 19th, 2009
Eurostar tickets start at £59 return and Brussels is considered by many as the lower cost alternative destination to Paris. Paris and France are famed for their food, but what can you find food wise at the heart of the EU?
Belgian beer, chocolate, waffles and frites are marketed in Britain as traditional, high quality Belgian products. [...]
Sep 11th, 2009
Like many our age growing up in England, a fair few childhood holidays were spent in France. Neither of us have spent much time there on our recent holidays though (nothing against France!). Like most of our holidays, we were excited about trying out lots of new food – probably food we screwed our faces [...]
Aug 26th, 2009
I wanted to make a very very quick birthday cake – we were on holiday and time was of the essence and the local shop not very big. I wanted to keep it real simple – so sponge cake. But how to make it just a bit more exciting than a Victoria sponge? I opted [...]
Jul 29th, 2009
During our recent trip to Lyme Regis, we found loads of great places to buy local produce and enjoy a nice bite to eat (more info in my previous Lyme Regis Post). However, I don’t think anything compares to fresh food which you’ve grown, caught or harvested for yourself. I particularly love oily fish on [...]
Jul 8th, 2009
At short notice, and with almost no planning at all, we decided to go camping in Dorset. Little did we realise that Dorset, and Lyme Regis in particular, offer more than just sea gulls, fossils and Fawlty Towers. They are actually quite foody places. There’s access to loads of fresh local produce and some wonderful [...]
Jun 27th, 2009
We recently went on a surfing holiday on the Gower Peninsular in Wales. On the days where the surf was flat, we needed to find other things to do. We heard that there was a local producer’s market held at Pennard Community Hall and we decided to give it a whirl.
There were several stalls selling fruit [...]