Odd Uneven Summer

I can feel a storm coming. The stillness in the air is building imperceptibly, marred by a hint of a Continue reading →

The Boroughs By the Havel

  There is something rather tantalizing about the quiet of small towns. They make me feel like I have taken Continue reading →

The Smuggler’s Cornwall

The Cornish landscape, in my fanciful mind, has been branded with swashbuckling smugglers, hidden coves, stormy seas and vast swathes Continue reading →

La Bohème Berlin

On a Thursday night, I was in a gastronomic fix. In the hipster district of Kreuzberg in Berlin, otherwise known Continue reading →

Let Them Eat Naked Cake

  A century before Marie Antoinette was born, Marie-Thérèse, the wife of Louis XIV, uttered the words “Qu’ils mangent de Continue reading →

In Starbucks Country

A fishy kind of theatre was underway in the Pacific Northwest. Dungeness Crabs, royalty amongst the crustacean species in the Continue reading →

The Great Norwegian Outdoors

  Ut på tur, aldri sur’ is Norwegian for ‘Out on a hike, never gripe’. In sync with the Norwegian Continue reading →

The Hanseatic Sojourn – III

  Bremen was the last city on the trail. The smallest land in Deustchland the Free and Hanseatic city of Continue reading →