Why Detroit is worth visiting

Diego Rivera mural wall

When I tell people I have been to Detroit, they are usually surprised. When I tell them I liked it and would recommend it to other travellers, they are usually even more surprised. For starters it’s in “Flyover Country” and is not somewhere foreigners would generally go. Secondly it’s a city known for industrial grit [...]

City by the bay: Best of San Francisco

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Chic, cosmopolitan and with a relaxed, happy-go-lucky vibe, San Francisco has much to offer visitors, as Caitlin Fitzsimmons discovers. When gold fever struck in 1849, San Francisco was transformed from provincial shanty town to thriving multicultural city. As much an idea as a place, it has seduced fortune seekers ever since – from the wide-eyed [...]

Blogging journey comes full circle

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I have decided to merge Roaming Tales with my personal blog. You will notice a new category called The Niltiac Files that contains all my imported personal blog posts dating back to 2004. I’m still sorting out the sub-categories and tags to assist with navigation through the archive and over time I will also work [...]

Sustainable food: Where you shop and the 3/50 Project

Shopping at independent stores helps support the local economy

Welcome to the second week of the series on sustainable food that I am writing with Chris Perrin of Blog Well Done. What is sustainable food? Food is what sustains life. For millions of people, this is the primary function of food. If you don’t have enough to eat, you’re not going to turn your [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 17 August

Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]

Food writing in Devon

I have been wanting to do an Arvon Foundation writing workshop for some time but it’s been a question of time and money. When I saw they had a food writing course with Sophie Grigson and Alastair Hendy at Totleigh Barton in Devon, I jumped at the chance. I am a sucker for recipe books [...]

The perils of soya

Soya is usually thought of as a health food but it’s not all tofu and soy milk, it’s also a huge ingredient in most processed food. And apparently it may in fact be bad for you. It’s okay when consumed in the traditional way, such as in the form of miso or tofu, but modern [...]

Studio 20 breakfast

Some of the guys and gals in my office have started a breakfast blog. I never knew there was so much comic mileage in what people eat for breakfast! See Studio 20′s Breakfast Tweet

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