Exactly one year ago I started this blog with the intention of becoming a world famous travel essayist, specialising in spa resorts and...

On my recent trip to Nepal (enter here groans from people thinking that I am showing off), my lovely group of volunteers and I were...

Having lived in Italy and then returning every few years, I feel I have a grasp of the best foods to eat thru taste trial and error. In...

I’m sure everyone had a go to recipe for a tomato meat sauce over noodles that their mum used to make, either from scratch or using...

See Highlight Reel for quick access to information and addresses. I really don't need to add anything else to this post. Go to Rome, find...

Aah, autumn in Vermont. What could be better than the colours of fall, foliage, crisp weather and the savoury aroma of a bon fire. Add...

I have been given the assignment of replicating a Maltese staple know as Pastizzi. Oh sure why not.... I am not a pastry chef, nor am I a...

Recently while on a trip to the UK, S4, the family’s equivalent to Jane Austin, surprised me with a trip to Wales. In my excitement I set...

My sisters and I schedule a few days each year to concentrate on keeping our ties. Easy, you say? Not so when we are spread out some 5000...