Category: International
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A European City in the Southern Hemisphere!
A five-week tour of southern South America We flew to Buenos Aires mid-March, 2017. It would be the start of a five-week tour covering the huge region of Patagonia (in both southern Argentina and southern Chile), the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and the wine region of Mendoza in north-west Argentina. We will make a…
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Is Flying Business Class Worth It For The Food And Wine?
We use a recent business class flight experience to make a judgement. Why no blog posts for some weeks? In the second week of March, 2017, a group of 16 of us, all friends, headed off to South America, flying in and out of Buenos Aires, for a four-week tour of Argentina and Chile. It…
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Mont Saint-Michel – The home of a very famous omelette!
This post is from an article we wrote for Club Marine magazine in 1998. Except for the food shots, the photos date from that period too. (Use the Print button at the top of this page for a hard copy or pdf of the recipe in this post.) Remarkable site Mont Saint-Michel is one of…
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Europe 2016 – Part 8
Continued from Europe 2016 – Part 7. Genoa – An outstanding food destination The food, produce and restaurants in Genoa, and the region of Liguria, are remarkable by any standard. Any visitor will notice how eating is such a natural part of Genoese life, with a food culture driven not by mass tourism but by…
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Europe 2016 – Part 7
Continued from Europe 2016 – Part 6. Genoa (Genova) – A hard to beat tourist destination! Genoa is one of our absolute favourite places anywhere. We have stayed there on four occasions, from two days to three weeks. It is a perfect place for immersion in Italian life! This is the first of two updates,…
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Europe 2016 – Part 6
Continued from Europe 2016 – Part 5. Rue Daguerre – A market street in Paris Rue Daguerre is located in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris. It is in a less well-known tourist area; the main attraction is the Catacombs. However, the street is a great place to visit if you are a food and wine lover,…
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Europe 2016 – Part 5
Continued from Europe 2016 – Part 4. Table d’Hôtes If you have travelled through France you are probably familiar with Chambres d’Hôtes – the equivalent of the Australian and British concept of Bed and Breakfast – and Gîtes – the equivalent of our holiday rental in the form of self-contained cottages, houses or apartments. Some…
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Europe 2016 – Part 4
Continued from Europe 2016 – Part 3. We went to learn French and learnt a lot about Sancerre The name ‘Sancerre‘ is well-known in the wine world, being a wine region south west of Paris famous for its sauvignon blanc. However, we hadn’t realised that there was also a small town called Sancerre until we…