Continuing with my mission to treat this area as I would a new expat location, and to see as many new places as we can in my own country… When my darling Mum offered to look after the children for a night so we could go away for my birthday weekend recently, we headed to […]
Food
Beach Food – Rinlo Asturias
You have to hand it to Asturias, it has some of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen… To think that all this is less than two hours plane ride from the UK… There are so many beaches to choose from along its coastline, with a huge variety of natural things to keep small […]
Lovely Ljubljana
I honestly think, that if you visit a city on a day when the weather is unbelievably bad, and you still come away thinking, “that was really lovely” (despite being soaked to the skin, and having had to invest in a Belgian (or should that be Slovenian) Waffle to warm you up on the way […]
Autumn Apple Cake – German Style
It may well reach temperatures of over 31ºC today, but Autumn is just about here… The mornings are much much cooler, and the days tend to start with fields full of mist at the back of the house. The evenings are definitely drawing in, plus there are spiders and daddy-longlegs in abundance… But, I LOVE […]
A Birthday at Theresa’s – Hotel Theresa – Zell im Zillertal
If you are not overly familiar with Austria’s Tyrol region, you might imagine it to be a place to visit exclusively in the winter – when the snow is deep, the sauna’s are ready to soothe any ski induced aches and pains, and dinner typically involves some form of melted cheese… Of course it does […]