DIARY: Visiting the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace. RECIPE: Palace finger sandwiches.
PALACE FINGER SANDWICHES
OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
If we live in a city, we all live in neighbourhoods. We are each in our own neighbourhood as soon as we step outside our front door. We seem to know organically […]
HADDON HALL, BETTER THAN A MOVIE SET
It’s a photogenic location, home to The Princess Bride and more.
IN SEARCH OF EGGS BENNY
If every crisis overcome deserves a reward, then we have earned one on this sailing trip.
ROADS LESS TRAVELLED
DIARY: We are driving around having a spectacular day getting lost on country roads in the Niagara region. RECIPES: Peach lattice pie, Peach pie and Peach Melba.
SUMMER SALADS
DIARY: A sailing cruise on Lake Ontario ends with a feast. RECIPES: Red skinned potato salad and Beet and spinach salad with goat feta.
LAKES, GREAT AND SMALL
On Canada’s Great Lakes, there’s usually either too much or not enough wind.
CRUISING ON THE LAKE
Looking back in my sailing logbook.
A CANAL DISCOVERED
At barely seven feet wide, it’s quite a trick to get a six foot eight inch narrow boat through the canal lock, leaving only two inches clearance on each side. It’s the […]
WHISKY TRAVELS
Tasting new whiskies in Switzerland, of all places, in Yorkshire and some old favourites at home.
Gentlemans Portion 