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…
Food 2018 – The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford
Saturday, 24th March 2018 – The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford This was our second visit to the Oxford Kitchen, mainly to confirm that we were right the first time about how good it is. With plans to be in the town on Friday night post Copenhagen for a college reunion, it seemed like a good plan…
Travel 2018 – Hull, Rotterdam, Etoges, Bordeaux, Pau, Pugnac, Pau, Bilbao, Portsmouth
Saturday, 5th May to Wednesday, 24th May 2018 – Hull, Rotterdam, Etoges, Bordeaux, Pau, Pugnac, Pau, Bilbao, Portsmouth Off on a road trip starting today so I’ll leave you with some old travels (being steadily imported from an old and now defunct blog) for your entertainment until we’re back.
Food 2018 Р185 Watling Street, Ten Hands Caf̩, The Ganges, Towcester
11th February to 18th March 2018 – 185 Watling Street, Ten Hands Café, The Ganges, Towcester We’ve been doing a fair amount of local eating again with the start of 2018 and have revisited some old favourites as well as test running some new entrants to the local restaurant scene. With the town growing rapidly…
Food 2018 – Gousto Box (Slow-Roast Duck, Braised Red Cabbage and Dauphinoise Potatoes)
May 2nd 2018 – Gousto Box (Slow-Roast Duck, Braised Red Cabbage and Dauphinoise Potatoes) I know I’ve left it a bit late to post about this, but I think it remains valid given that once every 4-6 weeks I order us a Gousto box, usually after I’ve been away and I don’t want to come…
Fitness 2018 – Blenheim 7k, Blenheim Palace
Sunday, 29th April 2018 – Blenheim 7k, Blenheim Palace Having not run any sort of race since the Silverstone 10K two years ago, the Blenheim 7K seemed like a conveniently sensible distance in a conveniently close location, it being only 40 minutes or so away by road. So I figured what the hell, I’d go…
Food 2018 – Recipes (Onion Fritters, Chinese Braised Red Cabbage)
Monday, 16th April 2018 – Recipes (Onion Fritters, Chinese Braised Red Cabbage) A glut of onions starting to shoot meant I tried the first recipe at the weekend. It worked a treat! It’s apparently from the wonderful Madhur Jaffrey’s book, Curry Easy Vegetarian. Additionally, with a red cabbage lying around reproachfully in the vegetable rack,…
Music 2018 – Distant Sky: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen, The Errol Flynn Filmhouse, Northampton
Friday, 13th April 2018 – Distant Sky: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen, The Errol Flynn Filmhouse, Northampton I now know what the soundtrack to the apocalypse will sound like, should such a thing occur (and given the state of world politics right now, it seems a distinct possibility). It will sound…
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