Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
I am blogging about my recent trip over on Roaming Tales. The most recent post is about Granada in Nicaragua, a beautiful colonial city on the shores of Lake Nicaragua. There is more to come, both from Nicaragua and Asia, so please subscribe to the Roaming Tales feed to keep up to date. The blog [...]
I am mostly a self-taught cook. I learnt the basics from my mum and dad and since then my cooking repertoire has expanded through cookbooks and magazines, sharing recipes and ideas with friends, and playing around in the kitchen inventing new dishes from random ingredients. I guess it’s been a moderately successful approach as I [...]
Like its famous namesake, Granada in Nicaragua is worth visiting for its relaxed atmosphere and beautiful historic architecture. It might not have the Alhambra but the streets are lined with Spanish colonial buildings in vibrant colours, from blue to cherry red. The town was founded in 1524 and the town has kept its historic flavour, [...]
* Strawberries will be in season in England in another month or two and I’m definitely going to try out this recipe for strawberry panzanella from 101 Cookbooks. I’ve never had, or even heard of a ‘panzanella’ before but mushy strawberries, crusty, toasty bread, and yogurt sounds like a cracking combination and the photos look [...]
www.flickr.com Niltiac1′s Arvon course, Devon, April 2008 photoset After my lovely food writing course at the Arvon Foundation last year, I really wanted to do one of their fiction courses. One of my big goals this year is to edit my NaNoWriMo novel, which as you’ll recall, I wrote in 30 days. It’s been languishing [...]
If you are visiting the West Country in England, there is one thing you should know. It is compulsory to eat cream tea in Cornwall and Devon. Seriously. Cream tea is scones with jam and clotted cream and proper black tea in a teapot. In Australia we usually call this ‘Devonshire tea’ but this is [...]
I didn’t need 80 days to travel around the world but the last month still feels pretty epic. Since leaving London in early March, I have been to eight countries on four continents. First stop was Australia, where I spent a couple of weeks visiting friends and family in and around Sydney and Brisbane. I [...]
I’ve turned into Phileas Fogg, except intercontinental jets mean that my globe circumnavigation has taken only 30 days. I left London on 8 March, almost exactly one month ago. Since then I have been to two states of Australia, the United States, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. I realise Nicaragua and Thailand [...]
With my Phileas Fogg cap on, I have hit the road for a month. It’s a mammoth world trip, combining Australia, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand. Nicaragua was obviously a detour but it’s for work so a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! All this has left me with plenty to [...]
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