Italian sauce: Pesto, Bolognese and Puttanesca

Robin Locker

This is a guest post from Robin Locker Lacey, a travel consultant for Italy and France, freelance writer, photographer and foodie. Her blog, My Mélange, features info on her favorite European cities,  travel essays, photos, restaurant and hotel recommendations, recipes and budget travel tips.  You can follow her on Twitter @MyMelange or join her community on Facebook. One of [...]

Hiking the Tour de Mont Blanc

Heather Cowper

Hiking the Tour de Mont Blanc around the Chamonix valley in the French, Italian and Swiss Alps. This is a guest post by Heather Cowper, from Heather on her Travels. Heather is based in Bristol, in the west of England and travels mainly in Europe. You can read more about Heather’s walk on the Tour de Mont [...]

Fettuccine carbonara and other culinary misadventures

Poutine - Canadian dish with chips (fries), curd cheese gravy and meat

I enjoyed this piece by Matt on Abstract Gourmet about rediscovering fettuccine carbonara years after boarding school nearly put him off for life. He writes: “The list of things that boarding school food turned me off was actually fairly extensive. Among them, steak diane, ham steaks with pineapple, lasagne, meat pies, hot dogs, and pretty [...]

Travel and expat blogs make finals for 2010 Bloggies

Travel blogs have made a fantastic showing in the finals of this year’s 2010 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. Food blogs have been popular in the Bloggies for some time and remain so, but the profile of travel blogging has really leapt ahead in the last couple of years. The Bloggies is one [...]

Food fashion: Is ice cream the new cup cakes?

Suddenly everyone is lining up for a scoop of the cold stuff. Food is prone to fashion. Like the cup cake craze that we’ve had to endure ever since Sarah Jessica Parker ate one on Sex and the City once. (Long-standing readers of this blog will know that I think cup cakes are mostly over-hyped [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 31 August

Collating these links collections takes up quite a lot of time but I also enjoy it as there is so much great travel content out there. In this week’s edition we have everything from the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo to expensive farm stays in upstate New York. I hope you enjoy it! Part of the [...]

Best of the Web – The Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 24 August

I can’t believe August is nearly over already! Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, I’ve been devouring summer fruits, especially white nectarines and peaches. I’ll be sad when peach season is over, but I have a cunning plan to extend it a little further. I bought an entire box of organic white peaches for [...]

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 [...]

Best of the web: Travel inspiration

A bumper crop of inspirational travel links from the blogosphere. I really enjoyed this month’s round-up. Intelligent Travel is running a series on readers’ guides to their favourite cities. In this post, Londoner Emma Torry gives us a personal tour of Hong Kong, from her top dim sum haunts to her favourite natural beauty spots. [...]

The best of 2008

The top 10 most popular posts at the end of 2008. 10. Photo Friday: Catholic taste A hilarious religious painting from the Prado in Madrid, Spain. Popular with Google searches for the term ‘Catholic taste’. 9. Colonial grandeur of the American Granada Beautiful Spanish colonial architecture in Granada, Nicaragua. 8. Guest post: Sleeping around Angela [...]

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