When it comes to coffee, I am, I confess, a massive snob. With Aussie and Kiwi coffee shops popping up all over London in the past four years, I have painlessly adapted to the taste of superior coffee and the perfectly produced and delivered flat white – anything else will not do. So it [...]
The plan is to explore Montreal in three days, and at first thought this seems reasonable, but little do I know that Montreal is a complex patchwork of tremendously downplayed treasures.
We begin in Little Italy with a visit to the Jean-Talon Market (read all about it here), once a [...]
It’s the Saturday morning after a 4000-mile journey across the Atlantic, followed by a sleepless night (surely I should be immune to jet-lag having been travelling over international waters for more than just a stint, but jet-lag seems to have formed an attachment to me and continues to mock me.) and it’s a hefty effort [...]
We began day two in Bologna with breakfast at our apartment, before piling into a bus, which would deliver us to a day, filled with adventure. Our first stop brought us to the nearby city of Reggio Emilia and an exploration of the area [...]
You’ll find Part One of my Isle of Wight Adventure, here.
I guess it was a tad optimistic of me to expect the gentle warmth of sunshine to wake me. Instead I grimaced at the somber sky that spat at the windows and later shivered under my trembling umbrella, as I made [...]
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