We had a memorable meal at the Fat Duck last week, which for those who don’t know is Heston Blumenthal’s whacky Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray. This led us to thinking about how much we love good food, and the kind of “foodie” things we won’t be doing for at least a year. So here’s a » » »
Archive for June, 2010
19 June 2010
Penmon
We’re on Anglesey this weekend. It’s one of the parts of the UK we’ve never explored so we’ve used my birthday as a reason to squeeze in one more long weekend. Penmon is a fascinating spot on the eastern tip of Anglesey, quite well off the tourist trail. St Seiriol’s Well is a spring of » » »
16 June 2010
Blog on the blog
It’s finished! The trip hasn’t begun, but the epic journey to build our travel blog has finally ended. That’s probably laying it on a bit thick, but it has been a couple of weeks of extremely late nights and screen-weary eyeballs. We partnered pretty well; Maureen focussed on functionality, I on visual design. So if » » »
Tags: blog
14 June 2010
Where we’ve been
To make the homepage look complete we’ve linked to galleries from our last four holidays, until we’ve been travelling enough to have four brand new ones. We’ve been to a few parts of the world already, but very definitely holidaying rather than travelling! Here’s a quick run-down of our explorations so far… We’ve been to » » »
Tags: otters, reflecting
14 June 2010
Only six weeks to go
It’s now only six weeks until we leave, which seems terribly close. It’s safe to assume that things will only get more hectic from now on. I think we’ll make a few pre-trip posts, mainly just so the blog looks “lived in” – I’m not sure how much interest there could be in our panicked » » »
Tags: reflecting