Travel 2018 – York, Day 3

Sunday, 8th July 2018 – York Sunday morning saw us not in a tearing hurry, but with a vague plan to get a close look at the rest of the city walls, and possibly pop into a museum, before stopping off somewhere for lunch. It was a fairly flexible sort of plan, and we were…

Travel/Food 2018 – York, Raskelf, Day 2

Saturday, 7th July 2018 – York, Raskelf Saturday morning was just as warm as Friday so we were quite pleased to have a variety of things indoors or at least undercover to do, starting with a visit to the Jorvik Viking Centre  that we’d pre-booked to avoid having to queue. As we were ready a…

Travel/Food 2018 – Kødbyens Fiskebar, Copenhagen

Wednesday, 21st/Friday, 23rd March 2018 – Tivoli Food Hall, Kodbyens Fiskebar, Copenhagen Back again, this time for two nights, I made it to the lovely Hotel Danmark by around 20:30, spent five minutes unpacking and then headed to the lobby to meet up with Andy, my colleague. We’d agreed that we’d go for dinner together,…

Food/Travel 2017 – Krakow, Day 6

Tuesday December 5th – Day 6, Krakow Tuesday was our last day and so after breakfast we tidied up the apartment, dropped off the keys and hauled our suitcases to the offices of the travel company who would be responsible for taking us to the airport in the evening. We were there just before 09:00…

Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 9

Sunday October 1st – Day 9, Piesport, Erden, Burg Arras We were moving on so the morning was spent going round in circles attempting to figure out how to fit all the wine boxes and the luggage into the car, without endangering any bottles, and keeping our bags where we’d be able to get them…

Food 2017 – Street Food, Various Locations, London

Various Thursdays – Kerb at the Gherkin, Lunch Market and Borough Market Working now in the City I have access to a lot more choice for lunch than the ghastly chains of Canary Wharf with the once a week street food provided by Kerb. Instead I am now withing walking distance of another Kerb, this…

Food/Travel 2017 – Copenhagen (Week 3)

Monday 20th February to Friday 24th February, 2017 – Copenhagen So one more week in Copenhagen and slowly going nuts in the Radisson Blu Scandinavia because actually three weeks in the same hotel is too long for anyone. The first night of the week I didn’t really feel like going far so wandered out with…

Travel 2017 – Copenhagen, Weekend 2, Day 1

Saturday 18th February, 2017 – Copenhagen, Denmark And so after another week at the training coalface, A. arrived in good time on the Friday evening for us to indulge in a quick drink in the hotel bar before we trekked over to O Tempo (using slightly more buses than might have been necessary if we’d…