Visiting the Vaucluse – a wine blending workshop at Lavau

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The story so far:  After a long drive from London, we had finally arrived in northern Provence, spending our first afternoon exploring the lovely Coustellet farmer’s market.  Our next stop was the hilltop village of Menerbes where we enjoyed a truffle-tastic lunch at the Maison de la Truffe et du Vin; followed by a visit to the Ochre Conservatory [...]

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Blue Boar Smokehouse & Bar review

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  One of the things that puts many English-speakers off learning another language is the annoying habit that our European neighbours have of giving nouns a gender.  There seems to be no rhyme or reason why a chair should be feminine and a poem masculine; or indeed why a table should be feminine in French [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #247

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Beacon Island Hotel, Plettenberg Bay – South Africa, February 2008

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Skrei cod with a miso glaze – and how to buy sustainable cod

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“So you’re a food blogger then?  Ok, so what’s your signature dish?”  It’s a question I dread, and one that I do not have an answer to.  It is part of the (totally erroneous) assumption that food bloggers cook only lark’s tongues lightly sautéed in truffle butter and garnished with pure gold leaf. People read [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #246

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Narcissus – May 2013

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Visiting the Vaucluse – a cycle tour of the Terraventoux vineyards

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The story so far:  After a long drive from London, we had finally arrived in northern Provence, spending our first afternoon exploring the lovely Coustellet farmer’s market.  Our next stop was the hilltop village of Menerbes where we enjoyed a truffle-tastic lunch at the Maison de la Truffe et du Vin; followed by a visit to the Ochre Conservatory [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #245

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  Red tulip – May 2013

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