Sunday, 1st December 2019 – Heritage, Hamburg After a Saturday to forget, by the end of Sunday afternoon I was starving, and dinner looked like a very welcome detail in our day. For Sunday evening I’d got us close to our hotel again, with a table reserved at Heritage, overlooking the Aussenalster. I hadn’t realised…
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Travel 2019 – Hamburg, Day 4
Sunday, 1st December 2019 – Hamburg Feeling fragile but at least vaguely human, I was back up and about on Sunday, starting with a cautious breakfast of plain yogurt with a spoonful of sugar, followed by a small portion of scrambled eggs, with a large mug of mint tea to settle it all down. Outside…
Travel 2019 – Hamburg, Day 3
Saturday, 30th November 2019 – Hamburg I’ve had better days is all I can say. Having started feeling ill the night before, I’d clearly got norovirus. I managed to get out of bed long enough to get to the local Apothek and buy some aptly named Vom-ex tablets and a dose of Immodium, and had…
Food 2019 – Hamburg, Day 2, Wolfs Junge
Friday, 29th November 2019 – Wolfs Junge, Hamburg Friday night’s restaurant booking saw us again getting on the number 6 bus (I’m beginning to think there’s no other bus route worth bothering with in Hamburg – though I suspect I’m wrong) and this time getting off just three stops from the hotel as we headed…
Travel 2019 – Hamburg, Days 1 and 2
Thursday, 28th November/Friday, 29th November 2019 – Hamburg We always aim to go somewhere that has plenty of Christmas markets, and plenty of other things to see and do as well for the first weekend in Advent, and so this year we headed to Hamburg, in the North of Germany, for our “get in the…
Food 2019 – Hamburg, Day 1, Tyo Tyo
Thursday, 28th November 2019 – Tyo Tyo, Hamburg And so to our first dinner in Hamburg. We stopped off in the Crowne Plaza bar first, because they had given us a pair of welcome drink vouchers and it seemed churlish not to use them. The staff were friendly and fun, and we enjoyed a couple…
Food 2019 – Recipes (Celeriac, Pancetta and Hazelnut Soup; Tartiflette; Sausage and Cider Casserole with Apples and Sage)
Saturday, 2nd November 2019 – Recipes (Celeriac, Pancetta and Hazelnut Soup; Tartiflette; Sausage and Cider Casserole with Apples and Sage) This turned out to be a brilliantly earthy, deeply satisfying soup for a freezing cold day sitting in a grandstand watching Formula Ford cars race frantically. Wrapped in blankets, with thick coats, thermals and woolly…
Wine 2019 – Grape Harvesting, Chafor Wine Estate, Gawcott
Sunday 20th October, 2019 – Grape Harvesting, Chafor Wine Estate, Gawcott In a fit of possibly misplaced enthusiasm I volunteered for one of the local wine grower’s grape harvest, thinking that ahead of taking the WSET 2 course in January 2020 I should maybe take a look at the wine making process from the sharp…
Travel 2019 – Leicestershire Weekend, Day 2, Stoneywell Cottage, Ulverscroft
Sunday, 13th October 2019 – Stoneywell Cottage, Ulverscroft On Sunday, after a run along the Soar which really didn’t show me Leicester’s best side (it was a nasty cold morning with steady rainfall and the river runs through what can only be described as a post-industrial wasteland), I returned to the hotel to shower. We…
Food 2019 – Leicestershire Weekend, Day 1, Case, The White Peacock, Leicester
Saturday, 12th October 2019 – Case, The White Peacock, Leicester Trying to find somewhere for dinner in Leicester proved less challenging that I might have expected given that most food guides display a massive empty space in the midlands, with just the odd oasis of hospitality, though if I’d stuck to Michelin we’d have had…
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