BLOG #techandtaste Food Parcel's & Blogging Where were you when #techandtaste happened? This is what people will ask you in years to come! This blogging event rocked, it quickly engaged with a key group of people from different walks of life, all brought together by their words and their Internet. This is why I LOVE blogging and blogger events, the last Blog Camp event saw "mummy bloggers" a group of particularly amazing people brought together by the Internet. London Bloggers Meet Up has consistently pulled together an eclectic mix o
BLOG Eating people - this is where is begun.... Really I am very ashamed, I started writing this travel and food blog years ago and have actually posted less than there have been ash clouds in that time. Actually if I ONLY wrote a travel and food blog I’d be as happy as shipwrecked sailor in a brothel with an Amex card. The blog would have to pay for all the travel and food of course - the issue is not that a desire to be rich, it is a desire to travel everywhere. Also, as those of you near me will know, I can't stop eating and that is an exp
BLOG ‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen.......' ‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen: his trip displaces the landscape and his version of events is all that matters. He is certainly kidding himself in this, but if he didn’t kid himself a little he would never go anywhere.’ Paul Theroux, The Kingdom by the Sea
BLOG Falling towards Argentina #LBM If I could drive anywhere in the world right now I’d drive to a book shop and pick up another copy of “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatiwn then armed with my video camera I’d pop down to Argentina and follow in Chatwin’s footspteps. On the journey I would stop at each place Chatwin did and find someone to cook a local dish from with and video the making of the dish. I’d upload it on my blog with all the ingredients so “the folks at home could cook along”. What is amazing abou
BLOG The travel check in..... The best version of us is the one in transit, not the holiday one or the rush hour one - the travel one. We have frequently attempted to 'go on holiday' and have failed every time. Instead we find ourselves travelling. When I was younger my gang would frequently travel to Europe it was like being away with a group of schizophrenic people whose alter egos were Kieth Richards by night and Alan Whicker by day, we quite literately "drank in" ancient ruins, museums and city walks. Today'
BLOG #coffee at Taylor Street It always delights me when the odds are stacked this high and the little guy wins.This is Taylor St. one of two sites in the city that serve my favourite Union Hand Roasted coffee. Here's the story; once upon a time opposite Taylor St. there was a Starbucks with seating, jazz music, wifi, almond croissants and orange mocha frappucino. Now there is no Starbucks, Taylors have two machines (and I don't think this is because their trade doubled when Starbucks left.) There is always
