Deliberated over from the comfort of her temporary bedroom in our cosy communist era Berlin apartment (whilst I pondered the all important matter of where we should eat dinner!), a certain history enthusiast in our family decided on two museums to visit in one day, both with much more serious collections for inspection, after the previous […]
Food
A Borrowed Christmas – Ris a la Mande
As you might expect, Christmas in our house is an English affair – from the very first mince pies usually baked on Christmas Eve, to the masses of seasonal food for the big day itself. A true English Christmas dinner is the star of the show obviously, with turkey (cooked on the barbecue! Mr R […]
Luce d’Oro at Schloss Elmau
Back in our old pre-children SW London life, like many others our age, good food and eating out was a big deal. On many a hung over Saturday morning you would find us searching for edible treasure at local farmer’s markets, or if we were feeling particularly wealthy at the time – working our way […]
The Kurbis Fest
A few pictures from a weekend visit to Schwabhausen’s fabulous Kurbis Fest. We didn’t go last year, as I know for a fact we were recovering from a certain well known bier festival taking place at the same time – but we went a couple of years ago, and it was so beautiful we thought […]
Down the Rabbit Hole – Afternoon Tea at The Sanderson
OK, so the small people might not have yet made it to a British Seaside in their lives, but they can strike another traditionally English thing off their rightful citizenship list (if they have one!) – Afternoon Tea in a swanky London hotel. You can’t get more English than that can you? Even if […]