May 2020 – Recipes (Scones, Cheese Scones, Canelés, Lemon Drizzle Cake With Edible Flowers, Runebergintorttu) I should probably call this the Great Lockdown Bakeoff (or something). I’m sure it’s a pretty common theme (certainly it would seem to be if you look at how damn hard it has been to lay hands on flour, yeast,…
Category: Bordeaux
Travel/Food 2018 – France and Spain (but only a little bit)!
Saturday, 5th May/Wednesday, 23rd May 2018 – Home, Hull, Rotterdam, Epernay, Etoges, Troyes, Bordeaux, Pau, Pugnac, Blaye, Saint Emilion, Bordeaux, Pau, Saint Jean Pied de Port, Bilbao Gotta love a road trip! Here’s an approximate map of where we went… I had more to say that has since been added, but there was laundry to…
Travel/Wine 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 14, la Cité du Vin, Bordeaux
Friday, 18th May 2018 – la Cité du Vin, Bordeaux, Wines From All Over the World So during our French trip, while we were in Bordeaux, we discovered that the Latitude20 wine shop in La Cité du Vin, which claims to have wines from 70 countries. I was initially sceptical, but we soon found they…
Travel/Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 14, Pugnac, Bordeaux, Saint Emilion, Pau
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…
Travel/Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 13, Pugnac, Bordeaux, Bourg, Blaye
Thursday, May 17th – Day 13, Pugnac, Bordeaux, Bourg, Blaye My day once again started with a run through the vineyards, this time running down every single side road I could find, before returning, hot and sweaty, to the house. A brisk shower and breakfast, and we were off in the general direction of Bordeaux…
Travel/Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 12, Bordeaux
Wednesday, May 16th – Day 12, Bordeaux After completing our wine tour, we had time to kill before the departure of the dinner cruise. Our first stop was Baillardran, for an iced coffee each and the inevitable canele. After all that wine tasting, caffeine seemed like a very good idea. At the same time I…
Travel/Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 12, Pugnac, Bordeaux, Saint Emilion
Wednesday, May 16th – Day 12, Pugnac, Bordeaux, Saint Emilion It was a stupidly early start for us (well, not for E and W) because we were off on an excursion into the vineyards of Bordeaux. Our restaurant owning friends at Rascills had recommended that we take a long look at Winerist for getting the…
Travel/Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 6, Bordeaux, Pau
Thursday, May 10th – Day 6, Bordeaux, Pau Thursday morning we arranged with the lovely people at the Hotel Bord’Eaux to leave our car in their car park until mid-afternoon so that we could go and see la Cité du Vin before heading off to do the two hour drive to Pau, where we would…
Food 2018 – French Road Trip, Day 5, Une Cuisine en Ville, Bordeaux
Wednesday, May 9th – Day 5, Une Cuisine en Ville, Bordeaux After the old-fashioned formality of le Chapon Fin the day before, this was a whole different kettle of fish! An easy walk from our hotel, the Maison Bord’Eaux, Une Cuisine en Ville is based in one of the old merchant’s houses, and is thus…
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…
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