musings of a traveller and food lover

will be busy…

since mae asked where am going to be before july…. the family will be here next week, the children will be on term break. Basically it will be just day trips along the coast or ...

Isole Eolie o Lipari

time to clean those sword fish!!!! It is now confirmed that we will be cruising Amalfi, Capri and the Aeolian Islands for 3 weeks this coming July. We (just the crew) will travel for 3 to 4 ...

Can you follow a recipe?

marinated artichoke hearts over egg white, cherry tomatoes stuffed with mozarella, parmessan, olives and capers Well that’s what my boss asked me over lunch while anchored at San Fruttuoso ...

Village Market South Turkey

This was in south coast of Turkey is a small village called Kekova. The nearest town in the map must be Kas. Here not far from the harbour is a sunken city of the Lycian period. Eating wise ...

Dinuguan: Pork Blood Stew LP#9

Pabumum our host for the Lasang Pinoy 9th edition had chosen the theme Lamang-loob: Odd Cuts and Guts. In Tagalog, laman [la’man] translates to “contents,” and loob [lo’ob] means inside–I ...

Rouge Thon

The day before I joined the yacht for 2 weeks trial, I went to Cannes and met up a friend. Cannes as some of you know was my base last year. I arrange to meet my friend at the gare – ...

kosher?

i have worked for saudis (moslems) and many other european yacht owners… though my ex boss in UK was Jewish he did not practise who would have thought I would have to deal with kosher ...

Dirty Ice Cream

Mamang Sorbetero I took these series of shots on the day the Greeks celebrated the beginning of the Lent. Remember your childhood days rushing to the streets upon hearing the ice cream bell ...

Est ce qu`il y un marché ici?

Having so used to my weekly farmers market in Athens, I badly missed my weekly walkabout from one stall to another. My interaction with the farmers all that…. Normally when I am here ...

Le Oursin and life in Antibes

Other than not having my own “office” and my dsl connection… I miss my own kitchen very much. This life on a constant go, a life which I have been doing for past years. Well I arrived here ...

Durian

The good thing of independent travel is you can explore places not in brochures. When we were in Lombook, we hiked at the base of Mt Rijani. On our way there we passed few road side fruit ...

From UK with love .. EMMB

A while ago just when I finished lunch (appetite back, Swiss cheese cooked steak and we had it with anchovy sauce sent from UK by Celia) the doorbell rang. I asked the Swiss Cheese, ...