musings of a traveller and food lover

Shalimar

dainty macaroons

Long way back January when I was working in Italy, I had a constant excess of egg whites from the weekly test and trials of different kinds of cheesecakes. Oh yes cheesecakes non baked and ...

…slowly getting the blogging mojo back

Few knows the existence of two other blogs I keep. I am slowly working on my other blogs where I keep a photojournal and a photo gallery. I know I am better, my creative juices just keep ...

a norwegian breakfast and trip to the fjords

Today is the kind of Sunday that I just want to chill and take time to enjoy breakfast. I am already on my 3rd cuppa and some toasted muffins buttered and topped with strawberry jam. A rare ...

all endings are new beginnings

I know many of you have changed links and I discovered more wonderful blogs as well. However its been a while I have not really done any updating on technical side of webs. Ever since my ...

Cap Taillat, South of France

Nanny K enjoying a dip…. MY Little Jems MY Umberto V Season is almost over, last week we cruised for few days and so far this is the best place we anchored off for lunch just west of ...

the wanderlust behind this blog

relaxing at fore deck while we were crossing the Straits of Messina, Sicily. Oh its meme time…and my friend Thess made it clear I must do this, or else she won’t send me ...

a birthday lunch

A recap of a marathon of birthday celebration hosted by friends, one of these was lunch with Bea at Perch Hill in East Sussex, UK.It was a great lunch at the green house with the view of the ...

warm broad bean salad

My dearest friend Bea will never forget the evening when she scanned the gardening magazine looking for a new job. In the ad was gardener who has a love for food and will assist the owner of ...

….too many stories to share, but just busy

too many cooks… Ben, Clive and Mick these 3 men I work and live with, this was taken when we were in Trogir, Croatia. I went out with Clive to check the market and indeed it was full ...

Venezia, Italia

…La Serenissima, the Queen of Adriatic, the city of canals and palaces. And on the 7th day of our passage we finally arrived on such magnificent place to be especially when the yacht ...

Captain Ben’s Spaghetti alla Vongole

Ben said we have been eating too much meat lately…. hmm and I said we are in Italy lets enjoy as much as we could the seafood after all when the family comes, we dont have the luxury ...