Vatican pillars – Rome, May 2007
Click here for a full portionBloom, Dublin – food, flowers and friends
Irish food. It’s all potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes, washed down with Guinness, right? Well, no, not really – and the lovely people at Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board) are on a mission to dispel that misconception and introduce the world to the wealth of wonderful produce and products that Ireland has to […]
Click here for a full portionCoq au vin – so French, so easy
God bless the French. We have so much to thank them for, if you think about it. Over the years they have given us: 29% of our English language (accordingto Wikipedia!) – think words such as abbatoir, cabaret, camouflage, garage, lounge, macabre, faux, panache, raconteur, silhouette, voyeur, as well as many more less obvious examples. […]
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Eiffel Tower detail – Paris, July 2006
Click here for a full portionPing Pong – a dim sum feast
I’ve never been much of a sports fan. I think it comes from a combination of my being monumentally bad at practically every sport I have ever tried (with the possible exception of snooker/pool and skiing), and my absolute loathing for losing at anything – not a great combination! But I have to say that I […]
Click here for a full portionAll I want VIP Food Safari
We’ve all done it. We’ve all sat morosely in an airport lounge with too much luggage and too many crying children and no hope of any improvement on board the plane. And then they breeze past you in impossibly stylish clothes and with minimal (expensive) luggage, trailing and air of expensive perfume and smugness, […]
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