So… down to the serious business of what I ate, drank and got up to at Oktoberfest 2006. This was our third trip (with our last trip in 2004 being documented here and recorded on film here. For a running photographic accompaniment to this post, feel free to check out my photo album of Oktoberfest […]
Click here for a full portionMunich Oktoberfest – 12 essential tips
**UPDATED SEPT 2019** The 2019 Munich Oktoberfest takes place from 21 September – 6 October. Every year in the late summer, Bavaria celebrates one of the world’s largest and most enduring folk festivals: the Munich Oktoberfest. In 2018, 7.9 million litres of beer; 510,000 roast chickens; 59,000 pork knuckles; and 124 whole oxen were consumed […]
Click here for a full portionGrilled salmon Caesar salad – Food for a heatwave Part IV
How appropriate that, as this series is drawing to a close, we are having yet another spell of warm weather in London! This time, it’s apparently the tail end of Hurricane Gordon, swirling around somewhere over the north Atlantic that is bringing flooding to some parts of England but hot (27C!) weather to London. Go […]
Click here for a full portionThe Salt Yard
It’s probably been about a year since I went to the Salt Yard, and seeing as I keep referring enthusiastically to it on this blog it’s probably high time I wrote something about my visit!! The restaurant opened last year (if I’m not mistaken) to a flurry of good reviews and presented itself as serving […]
Click here for a full portionLamb sosaties with a view (Scenes from a braai II)
As I mentioned previously, a couple of weeks ago we enjoyed three marvellous and very divergent braais (BBQs) in the space of one weekend. Seeing as the weatherman has now assured us that summer is officially over in the UK (!!), I suspect that the memories of those halcyon days (and I do mean days, […]
Click here for a full portionBroccoli and toasted seed salad- Food for a heatwave part III
And so, just like that, we are back in a mini-heatwave! After the weatherman’s dire predictions that summer was over, we were all expecting a slow slide into winter. But it seems that the sun had other ideas. After a rather changeable Saturday, Sunday dawned absolutely PERFECT – just as well because we had Johanna […]
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