Friday, 30th December 2018 – Ask, Helsinki The White Guide says “Dazzling Finnish poetry – In the sparsely decorated room, with benches along the walls and Ilmari Tapiovaara’s simple wooden chairs, nothing here betrays that we are about to be treated to a spectacular show in roughly fifteen acts. Chef Filip Langhoff surely learned a…
Month: November 2018
Travel 2018 – Helsinki, Day 2
Friday, 30th November 2018 – Helsinki, Day 2 Friday started slowly, and we spent some time enjoying breakfast in the hotel (I’m told it’s been voted Finland’s best breakfast and though I can’t verify that, it is a very good breakfast indeed and is improved further by being included in the room rate, as is…
Food 2018 – Natura, Helsinki
Thursday, 29th November 2018 – Natura, Helsinki On our first night in town I’d booked for dinner about as close to the hotel as I could get, based on recommendations from both Michelin and the White Guide. For our first dinner I’d gone for Natura, which surprisingly isn’t in the White Guide, but that is…
Travel 2018 – Helsinki, Day 1
Thursday, 29th November 2018 – Helsinki, Day 1 And so, at stupid o’clock, we loaded up the car and headed for Heathrow to get the 10:20 Finnair flight to Helsinki. It was quite a blustery day with the tail end of the latest storm blowing itself out over the south of the country, and there…
Travel 2018 – A Walk Round Towcester
Saturday, 24th November 2018 – Towcester I was having a mooch around the town at lunchtime, and had for once taken my phone with me. As a result I was able to take a batch of photos around the church, where the Armistice Day displays were about to be taken down, and around the new…
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