Literature, Guinness and Whiskey must be amongst the three biggest exports form Dublin to the rest of the World and a recent trip to the city gave me the opportunity to discover the origins of all three. I was there for the TBEX (travel blog exchange) conference and decided to Guinness, Jamesons and Literature, 4 days in Dublin, part 1[Read More]
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Half a Hamburger and a PflaumenKuchen
Last weekend I decided to take a trip to Hamburg. My mother grew up in the city and as a young child our family would spend the summer holidaying on the Baltic coast nearby. I hadn't been there since visiting my Grandmother in my teens and I decided it was time to revisit the Half a Hamburger and a PflaumenKuchen[Read More]
L’Abbaye de Frigolet
I originally wrote this in 2013, and some of the information may no longer be correct, however, I wanted to resend this, as the week before last saw terrible fires that tore through the Montagnettes, destroying huge sways of the forest. The firemen worked tirelessly through two L’Abbaye de Frigolet[Read More]
Yotam Ottolenghi comes to Bath
Since spending more time in the UK, The Artist and I have started a monthly 'mystery tour', where one of us organises something, without telling the other what it is. My 'tour' took us to an Italian restaurant, Guiseppe's Gourmet which is in the club house of The Bristol and Yotam Ottolenghi comes to Bath[Read More]
Where to eat Geoduck in Seattle
Things have been a bit quiet on the Provence Calling site, the reason being that I have been working on a film in Seattle and have had little time to do anything besides. Seattle is surrounded by water, the Puget Sound to the West and Lake Washington to the east and there is a Where to eat Geoduck in Seattle[Read More]
