Recipes, Craft & Adventure Stories
Celebrating 180 years with P&O Ferries. The Shetland Islands are a remote island archipelago in the North Sea, 200 miles, as the crow flies, from the Scottish city of Aberdeen. Between 1971 and 2002 P&O Ferries (known then as P&O Scottish Ferries) ran a lifeline service between Aberdeen and Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. This overnight trip took 12-14 hours (weather permitting!) and a few times a week it stopped in the ...
In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Saturday nights are pizza night in our house. We sit around our oversized coffee table in the living room and, as a family, we eat pizza and watch a film together (it's Avatar this week!). I like to jazz things up a bit with my pizza recipes, like this ...
The perfect Canadian recipe to celebrate Canada Day! Today is Canada's 150th birthday! To help celebrate, here's a recipe from my handwritten notebook, a recipe I brought with me when I immigrated from Canada to Scotland in 1999. I have no idea where the original recipe came from, and, if I am ...
In collaboration with Harveys Furniture. Are you a hoarder of little bits of string, ribbon and buttons? I am. I've teamed up with Harveys Furniture to bring you my quick and easy storage solution - a custom sized small storage box to store crafting bits and bobs on my craft desk. The whole project can be completed in less than half an hour. You could even use these as gift boxes ...
In collaboration with Garda Trentino S.p.A. Tourism Board. Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy. Located in Northern Italy it is just an hour's train journey from Milan Central Station. Garda Trentino covers the region at the top of the 51.6 km long lake; a collection of small towns and ...
A visit to some of Paris' 100 award-winning bistros. I have visited Paris twice in my life (so far). The first time was 18 months ago when, en route to London for a food blogging conference, I took a little detour to the city of lights. I rented a tiny studio apartment for five days and ...
A 5.5-day walk along England's 13th National Trail. Hadrian's Wall is the largest ancient Roman artefact in the world. Running for 80 Roman miles (75 modern miles) from Wallsend in Newcastle upon Tyne on the east coast of England to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast it marked the northern edge ...
