Aldeburgh, Suffolk: The Last Day

June 12, 2022.Reading time 12 minutes.

I decided to take it easier on my last day and just enjoy my immediate surroundings before heading back to London tomorrow and ‘Life’. I’ve enjoyed exploring what Aldeburgh has to offer in the town and nearby over the last couple of days but I wasn’t planning to go far today. However, as usual I […]

Aldeburgh, Suffolk: Dinner at Regatta Restaurant

June 12, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

When I’m away for short breaks I always end up booking places to eat to make sure I can get into what looks to be the best restaurants. Part of me feels ‘going with the flow’ and just turning up at dinner time to a place that looks good and what I’m in the mood […]

Aldeburgh, Suffolk: A Morning Walk to Thorpeness & Lunch at Aldeburgh Market

June 11, 2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

I’d heard of Thorpeness due to a number of TV programmes over the last year or so featuring well-known personalities like Kate Humble and Michael Portillo walking the Suffolk coast. It’s only a couple of miles north of Aldeburgh – about half an hour’s walk – and so many people had recommended I walk there […]

Aldeburgh, Suffolk: Supper at The Lighthouse

June 10, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Well finding good places to eat is essential to Travel Gourmet when it comes to holidays! I must confess, however, that I didn’t have any idea what was on offer in Aldeburgh until after I’d booked my stay at The Cross Keys and started looking at restaurants here. When I saw The Lighthouse listed as […]

Aldeburgh, Suffolk: In the Footsteps of Benjamin Britten

June 10, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

I had no idea of the strong connection between Aldeburgh and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) when I decided to come here. I soon discovered it though, for it would be almost impossible to read about Aldeburgh or indeed come here and not see and hear references to the great composer everywhere. Britten was born in Lowestoft […]

Aldeburgh, Suffolk: Arrival at The Cross Keys

June 9, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

Booking a short holiday in Aldeburgh was based on wanting to explore Suffolk, which I don’t know, and staying right by the sea. I love being by the sea. By the time I’d looked at what was on offer via Booking.com from Southwold southwards, I found The Cross Keys and decided that looked like a […]

Where to Eat with Kids: Hache Riverside Social, Kingston upon Thames

May 31, 2022.Reading time 8 minutes.

It’s half term week, so a promise to take the boys to Kingston upon Thames – more specifically Bentalls – in the next holiday time was fulfilled. Bentalls has a brilliant toy department, which is its chief attraction to the boys, including the best collection of Schleich animal figurines that I know of (short of […]

Madeleines: A First Attempt

May 28, 2022.Reading time 12 minutes.

I’ve never made madeleines before. They seem to have been in my life for as long as my memory goes back, like scones and clotted cream, the bread pudding and Christmas puddings I used to make as a child with my grandmother. I guess I perhaps ate madeleines for the first time in France. I […]

Restaurant Review: Tangawizi

May 20, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

I’ve written about Tangawizi before but it was 12 years ago in the early days of the blog. I listed it as one of my ‘favourite haunts’ – a category I eventually abandoned but Tangawizi remains a favourite haunt and the only place I ever order a takeaway from. I thought it deserved some attention […]

Grilled Crottin Salad with Figs, Walnuts & Honey

May 17, 2022.Reading time 9 minutes.

It’s been a bit of a French week: I’ve been upgrading my French Peugeot car to a newer (not new) version; I’ve been enjoying the re-run of Rick Stein’s Secret France on BBC TV in the evenings; and there was a French market in Twickenham on Sunday and Monday. I had the eldest grandsons – […]