Travel Gourmet’s Top 5 City Breaks

April 12, 2017.Reading time 16 minutes.

I’ve been writing this food and travel blog for nearly six years so it’s not surprising that I often get asked where I most like to travel to, and which are my favourite restaurants (usually referring to hometown London). Most of my travelling is city breaks: 3 or 4 nights in the heart of […]

48 Hours in San Sebastian

April 27, 2016.Reading time 16 minutes.

In the couple of weeks leading up to my trip to Bilbao and San Sebastián with Annie, there had been unhappy forebodings of terrible weather: cold temperatures and heavy rain dominating our long weekend break. It’s hard to feel positive. Spain at the end of April should be warm and sunny; maybe not sunbathing weather […]

24 Hours in Bilbao, Spain

April 27, 2016.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’ve been wanting to go to Bilbao for years. And the main reason for wanting to go was to see architect Frank Gehry’s masterpiece – the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which opened in 1997. I knew people who’d been and said how wonderful the building was but once I finally got there, I realised nothing had […]

My Week in Food

April 27, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

It’s been a busy week in food and much else with my birthday last Wednesday and then a trip to northern Spain with friend Annie over a long weekend (more on that to come in my next posts). Here’s how it shaped out: Tuesday – Anything Goes Salad It was book club night and I […]