We’re staying in Fremantle this week, one of my favourite places in our south west corner of the world and which we visited last week in our grand tour of the area (Our Adopted Home: Perth and SW Western Australia). The “Little Creatures” in question is not, however, a list of the creepy crawlies …
Following on from our brunch at the Wildflower Cafe and our tour round Portobello Road, I’d like to share with you a couple of other eating places that our daughter Mlle took us to during our few days in London. It certainly pays to know a local in a place as large as the metropolis …
I still have many more stories from our recent Bavarian travels to write about, but for this week’s post we’re heading back across the Channel to London to share some reminiscences from the few days we spent there earlier on in our trip. Our younger daughter, Mlle, has been living in London since last year …
A brief hiatus this week from my Bavarian travel series but still with a German theme. Winter has well and truly arrived here in Perth and temperatures have plummeted. It got down to 2 degrees on Tuesday morning, which makes the news here much like it does in the Uk when it climbs to 20 …
I always love watching the Tour de France not because I am particularly passionate about cycling (though you do build up quite a bit of technical knowledge watching it over the years!) but because I adore looking at the scenery. This year for the first time ever, the first 2 stages of the Tour have …
The “it” coffee to order in most Viennese cafes we discovered is the “Melange” which literally derives from the French word meaning “mixing” or “blending”. Since I don’t drink much coffee Monsieur Le Chic made it his business to sample as many as he could during our few days in Vienna and it soon became …
One of the privileges of staying in the Boscolo Hotel in Budapest (Erzsebet korut 9), is that we got to take breakfast (sounds more refined than “having” breakfast) in the magnificent and opulent setting of The New York Cafe. Now beautifully restored to its former glory the hotel provides a breakfast buffet of spectacular proportions …
A selection of some of the local dishes on offer. Of course you can get anything you like in Budapest it does have all the usual cosmopolitan eateries you’d expect in a modern city but if you want to try local stuff be prepared for hearty goulashes and stews they definitely don’t hold back on …
Le Chic En Rose 