Food & drink
Serving Food on Wood in Restaurants, Trendy or Traditional?
There’s a social media campaign at the moment called we want plates, which is a light-hearted crusade against trendy restaurants that serve food on wood… […]
Articles by Jack
Europe
The Surprising Flavours of Fuerteventura
At La Gayría the penny dropped that there was far more to Fuerteventura than I’d expected. Plastic water bottles dangled below olive trees; bougainvillea tumbled… […]
Croatia
Highly Recommended, Restaurant Lungo Mare in Zadar
Why have we never reviewed Lungo Mare in Zadar before I wonder? Maybe we subconsciously didn’t want to share it. It was the first place we ate in Croatia… […]
Food & drink
Steak Haché in France, More Than Just a Burger
I have to confess I ordered a steak haché in a cosy, cool little brasserie in Beauvais because I thought I was asking for a local dish that had been concocted… […]
As we walked out
As We Walked out From Gargnano on Lake Garda, Italy
There are two things we discover quickly after setting off on a walk from the shores of Lake Garda on a serene Sunday morning… […]
Croatia
Ten Scenes of Zadar in Croatia
Apparently there’s an obscure Zadar law which states that you can’t write about the place without including at least one sunset photograph. […]
Europe
Fontvieille in France, Worth a Return Visit
Our visit to Fontvieille in Les Alpilles was a fleeting one, a pause between where we’d come from and where we were going. […]
Austria
The Life of the Mirabell Palace and Gardens in Salzburg
The Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg might be a huge tourist attraction, but they have enough of a strong personality to swallow up the masses without allowing… […]
Travel Talk
Do You Know Who I Am?
The circumstances are that I’m now almost in the lobby of an airport hotel, it’s 2.30am and we have to get up for a flight at 4am. At 2am we were rudely awakened… […]
Hiking
Songlines, Los Molinos on Fuerteventura
I first read about songlines in Bruce Chatwin’s book The Songlines. They are an ancient way to create maps using a ‘song’ that recounts aspects of the landscape… […]
Hiking
When Lost Ask a Local and See What Happens
We’re completely surrounded by soldiers in camouflage uniforms who cradle mean looking machine guns in their arms.
“Quick, take a photo,” Andy urges. […]
Europe
La Palma, the Canary Island Time Forgot
La Palma is possibly the purest of the Canary Islands, the one where the past somehow feels a little bit closer like it’s a Canary Island in the mould of… […]
Hiking
The Paths We Travel
Paths have a purpose; they all lead somewhere. A huge part of the thrill of travelling along one is to discover the answer to a question – ‘where do you lead?’ […]
Europe
The Italian Lakes, a Gastro Hike Destination Plus
The Italian Lakes had existed as a romanticised location in our imaginations for many, many years. A destination that had been elevated to such a lofty position… […]
Hotels
Taking a Closer Look at Staying in All Inclusive Hotels
For a project we were working on we had stayed back to back in three hotels which offered all inclusive (AI) packages. […]