Friday, 22nd January 2010 – Burns Night Supper, The Roade House, Roade For the last couple of years we have been trying (and failing) to get a table at the Burns’ Night Dinner at one of our favourite local restaurants, the Roade House. Well this year we managed to get a table, and so we…
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Travel 2009 – Zeltingen-Rachtig, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Kues, Erden, Wehlen, Urzig, Jezus-Eik, Days 5 and 6
Monday, 8th/Tuesday, 9th June 2009 – Zeltingen-Rachtig, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Kues, Erden, Wehlen, Urzig, Jezus-Eik, Days 5 and 6 Monday dawned sunny and fine, so we had a late, leisurely and extremely good breakfast. The hotel specialises in organic produce from the immediate area as much as possible and also various smoked and home-cured meats and fish….
Travel 2009 – Hockenheim, Zeltingen-Rachtig, Days 3 and 4
Saturday, 6th/Sunday, 7th June 2009 – Hockenheim, Zeltingen-Rachtig, Days 3 and 4 Saturday was a busyish day, with qualifying and one race, though it could have been worse. The weather wasn’t too good, but again that was pretty immaterial really. It had been an odd sort of race, with quite a few unexpected incidents, including…
Travel 2009 – Hockenheim, Days 1 and 2
Thursday, 4th/Friday, 5th June 2009 – Hockenheim, Days 1 and 2 It’s been a long time since we last did a road trip of any great note, probably because flights are so much cheaper these days than when we first started travelling to races in Europe quite so frequently back in 1989. Some of these…
Food 2008 – The Roade House, Roade
Friday, 12th September 2008 – Italian Dinner, The Roade House, Roade Friday night was another of the ever-wonderful Roade House’s special dinners. This time it was an Italian dinner with matching wines. We arrived slightly early, in time to admire the newly-redecorated bar/conservatory, which now seems very light and airy, with lovely white walls and…
Food 2008 – Woksoever, Cottingham
Saturday, 12th April 2008 – Woksoever, Cottingham Well, it was a pretty exhausting weekend (and if I never see a cardboard box again it may be too soon), but it had its good points too. On Saturday night, knowing we’d none of us feel up to cooking dinner, we booked into the ridiculously named Woksoever…
Food 2008 – The Roade House, Roade
7th April 2008 – Antipodean Dinner, The Roade House, Roade This afternoon I dashed to the garage to get a new headlight bulb fitted to the Astra (I swear this car eats light bulbs – I’m averaging one every three months right now), before picking Andrea up from Bicester station to take her to ours,…
Travel 2008 – Zurich
Wednesday, 26th March 2008 – Zurich I’m in Zurich again – just for a meeting today, but this time I opted to fly in last night. I’ve stayed overnight at the somewhat eccentric Hotel du Theatre just across the river from the main railway station, and after a brief wander round in the snow last…
Food 2008 – Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
Wednesday, 13th February 2008 – Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, Great Milton So, it was both my Mum and Lynne’s birthdays, and to celebrate, what with it being Lynne’s 50th and Mum’s 81st, we were booked in at the splendid – nay utterly wonderful – le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons. We got up slowly, the…
Travel 2004 – Etoges, France
Thursday, 23rd December 2004 – Etoges, France Were it not just two days before Christmas, I’d be quite happy to be snowed in here… There’s this weird sixth sense Lynne and I seem to possess when it comes to picking hotels and restaurants, and it still works, even after a couple of decades. I’ve clearly…
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