vegetarian food

Catch, cook, and eat your own salmon, New Zealand-style

May 7, 2013
Thumbnail image for Catch, cook, and eat your own salmon, New Zealand-style

Today, Mr TravelEachDay made me a delicious smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel – perfect for this sunny and warm British weather. And it brought on one of those ‘do you remember when…’ moments: a brilliantly crisp memory of sinking my teeth into a freshly caught, perfectly smoked piece of salmon one afternoon on New [...]

Read the full article →

Checking in, checking out: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool

April 24, 2013
Thumbnail image for Checking in, checking out: Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool

You think we’d have done enough travelling by now to ensure we were streetwise enough to get on the right train from our local station. But no. Still, we breezed into Liverpool Lime Street on a sunny Wednesday afternoon and strolled up to the Hope Street Hotel at the top end of the city centre. [...]

Read the full article →

Liverpool’s indie cafes

April 18, 2013
Thumbnail image for Liverpool’s indie cafes

My first visit to Liverpool – European Capital of Culture in 2008 -  was packed with surprises. This won’t be the last post I write about this massively underrated city. One thing I did notice (and loved) was the multitude of independent cafés and coffee houses scattered profusely around the city. Nearly everywhere I expected [...]

Read the full article →

Early evening fun in Soho, London

March 19, 2013
Thumbnail image for Early evening fun in Soho, London

I love going out in London, and I love Soho. What I don’t like are the queues, the dress codes, the members-only access and the crowds of people trying to squish into the latest hotspot. The solution? Hit the town early! For a friend’s 30th birthday, we headed out to Vinoteca’s Soho branch for a [...]

Read the full article →

Stargazing in Chile

September 24, 2012
Thumbnail image for Stargazing in Chile

After a seven hour bus journey from the seaside resort of Viña del Mar, past cacti-covered hills and glimpses down to deserted bays, we arrived at the pretty Chilean town of La Serena. After a cup of tea at our hostel, we wandered the paint-peeling streets and admired the sunset before tucking into some Chilean [...]

Read the full article →

Soy vegetariana!

April 23, 2012
Thumbnail image for Soy vegetariana!

I’d dabbled with the idea of going vegetarian for years but had always struggled with turning down pub burgers and sizzling BBQ sausages. But the day I stepped on the plane to start my RTW trip, I wrote off meat and took a step in a new direction, both literally and gastronomically. You might ask [...]

Read the full article →