I love discovering specialist food and drink products during my travels, so my visit to Herdade de São Miguel in Alentejo, Portugal was an eye opener. It was at the winery’s modernist head quarters on its Pimenta estate that I first learned about the renaissance of vinho de talha. I have already shared the story ... Read more »
There are whisky books which seek to list every whisky in a given category, or give you a tick-list of X whiskies that you must “try before you die”. This is not such a book. Instead, The Way of Whisky by Dave Broom is a large and detailed exploration of nine Japanese distilleries and while ... Read more »
By now we’ve seen Adelaide to Budapest, Cancun to Istanbul, Jerusalem to Mysore, and Naples to Seville. Now it’s time to close the list with Part 5 – Shanghai to York. Is your favourite city in our one hundred? If not, let us know what city you would have picked and why! Shanghai, China If ... Read more »
By now, you’ll hopefully have enjoyed Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of 100 Fantastic Cities! If not, click through to catch up on the first sixty favourites, before reading onwards. Enjoy Naples to Seville! Naples, Italy Of all the places you can head to in Italy for a needed city break, go to ... Read more »
I’ve now shared Part 1 and Part 2 of my series featuring fellow travel bloggers’ favourite cities and what they love about them. Today I’m sharing the next 20 cities, from Jerusalem to Mysore. I hope you’ll find some inspiration for planning your future travel! Jerusalem, Israel Jerusalem is the most interesting city I have ... Read more »
Recently I shared Part 1 in a series where fellow travel bloggers share their favourite cities and what they love about them. Today I’m sharing the next 20 cities, from Cancun to Istanbul. I hope you’ll find some inspiration for planning your future travel! Cancun, Mexico Cancun is a city in Northeast of Mexico, well-known ... Read more »
A city break holiday is the perfect pick-me-up when you have just a few days to spare but want an immersive escape with culture, history and great food and drink. I love a bit of people-watching too! I was originally going to write about my personal Top 10 Cities – Kyoto, Cape Town, Venice for ... Read more »
‘Ask any Portuguese and they’ll agree – Alentejo is the gastronomic soul of Portugal!‘ So said our guide Ruben as we set off on our taster tour of the region. But since he’s also the Communication Manager for the region’s tourism promotion agency, I took his words with a pinch of salt, categorising them as ... Read more »
Did you know that Portugal is the world’s largest producer of cork? Half of the world’s cork is produced here, much of that within the Alentejo region, which I explored recently. Cork is grown and harvested across the Alentejo, well suited to the hot and dry climate. Most of the processing happens in Azaruja, ... Read more »
The advantage of meeting up with friends in Japan is that they can guide us to the best places for food and drink, none more so than food and drink journalist Robb Satterwhite, also the founder of Animal Cafes, Bento.com (restaurant guide), Craft Beer Bars Japan, and Where in Tokyo. Although we’re usually keen to seek ... Read more »
The Place of Onions, in old Lille. After last night’s rainstorm the intense sticky heat has broken and today is cool, breezy, fresh… I love it! A drop of… [more]
We went to Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire at The Void this morning, an amazing VR experience where we got to be Rebel Alliance members going undercover as… [more]