March 2012

Chalet Cateriane – a luxury ski week in Chatel

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  Skiing is something that Nick and I only got round to relatively late in life.  Unsurprising, really, considering that we grew up in a country where snow is unusual enough to make the evening news, and that had a sum total on one ski resort with one button lift!  Nick took to it like [...]

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Confetti rice salad – celebrate!

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  A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them – Leonard Louis Levinson It’s a simple fact that there are those of us in this world for whom the glass is half [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #185

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Bumblebee – Spring 2009

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The Balcon with Donald Russell

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  For somebody who has never classed herself as a rampant eater of steak, preferring fish or chicken while hubby chows down on the rump and sirloin, I’ve certainly been falling off the wagon lately.  First there was my perfect sirloin with Tasmanian pepper sauce; then there was the blue cheese & pecan risotto topped [...]

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Crab-stuffed portobello mushrooms for the Chablis Challenge

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  There are many advantages to having older parents, as I did.  But one of the downsides is that you are unlikely to have a long acquaintance with any of your grandparents.  At least two of my grandparents passed away before I was even born, and the other two lived pretty far away all my [...]

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A walking tour of Gothenburg

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    Our final day in Gothenburg got off to a leisurely start with a lie-in and a lovely breakfast at the Hotel Royal.  As Su-Lin and I had nothing in particular planned, and seeing as the rain had finally stopped, we decided to do a walk around Gothenburg to see some of the sights we had [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #184

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  Onwards and upwards – Chatel, France February 2012

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