Friday, May 18th – Day 14, Pugnac, Bordeaux, Saint Emilion, Pau A comprehensive repacking of the car was needed, because today we would be moving on, back to Pau for the Historic Grand Prix, by way of the vineyards we’d visited on Wednesday, but with a stop off in Bordeaux so we could see more…
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Travel 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 5, Bordeaux
Wednesday, May 9th – Day 5, Bordeaux I started the day with a run out from the hotel and along the riverside walk that was already busy with other runners, walkers, cyclists and skateboarders. It gave me an opportunity to figure out the lie of the land between the hotel and the river, and provided…
Travel 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 4, Etoges, Bordeaux
Tuesday, May 8th – Day 4, Etoges to Bordeaux Tuesday was mostly about getting on the road to fetch up further south, closer to Pau. There was also a suggestion that the weather might be better further south, but I have no idea how it could have been. The sun was shining again when we…
Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 3, l’Orangerie, Chateau d’Etoges, Etoges
Monday, May 7th – Day 3, The Orangery, Chateau d’Etoges And so to dinner, for the second dinner of our package, the Menu Gourmande, again to be served in the Orangery at the Chateau d’Etoges. After Sunday’s Menu Decouverte, we were very much looking forwards to it. But first, a table on the terrace where…
Travel 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 3, Troyes
Monday, May 7th – Day 3, Troyes, Etoges Monday morning dawned sunny and clear so I set off for a run around the village. It wasn’t easy to cover much mileage without having to test every side road available, unless I wanted to run along the main roads. Given the sheer volume of farm traffic…
Travel/Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Days 1 and 2, Home, Hull, Rotterdam, Epernay, Etoges
Saturday, May 5th/Sunday, May 6th – Days 1 and 2, Home, Hull, Rotterdam, Epernay, Etoges After what felt like weeks and weeks of cold, wet, miserable weather we finally started to see some sunshine as we left home on Saturday afternoon to drive to Hull and get the overnight ferry to Rotterdam, from where we…
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,…
Travel/Food 2018 – Gorilla, Copenhagen
Tuesday, 27th/Wednesday 28th February 2018 – Gorilla, Copenhagen And so for the second time this year I found myself in Copenhagen on business. This trip was quite a lot tougher. Due to a variety of circumstances, some of them down to my own lack of organisation, we’d been out late in London the night before…
Food 2018 – Locanda Locatelli, London
Monday, February 26th 2018 – Locanda Locatelli, London February got slightly out of control when the lovely people at the Harden’s Guide announced their latest dinner. This would be at Locanda Locatelli, a restaurant we last visited in 2009 for a friend’s 40th birthday. It was lovely then, and given that Giorgio Locatelli is one…
Travel 2018 – Monaco, Day 3
Sunday, February 18th 2018 – Monaco After some pretty questionable weather we woke on Sunday to blue skies, bright sunshine and just the sort of weather we’d be hoping for. After another very pleasant breakfast we took the lift to the top floor of the hotel and set off towards the Casino, getting side-tracked by…
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