musings of a traveller and food lover

PEOPLE, PLACES & CULTURE

Blue Riband aboard Princess of Scandinavia

Crossing between Newcastle, UK to Kristiansand, NorgeIt took its name from the World of Blue Riband of the Atlantic award given to the passenger ship that made the fastest Atlantic crossing ...

The Drive from Kristiansand to Oslo

I couldn’t get up must be tired or was it the wine. M said if I were to shower and have a full stomach I’d better get up. I looked at the port hole, ughh not another grey place. Dashed ...

Cinnamon and Life

Cinnamon and the High Cost of Living can be found on my other web page Taxidia tis Zois. To Taxidi in Greek is a trip or a journey, at taxidia is the plural form, zoi is life, thus thatÂ’s ...

Oslo Food Diaries

I have been tinkering on my files all the time actually, just that we have to wait till next week when we get the telephone connection gets sorted out. Today I discovered the ...

To Norway

Food to Norway. Yes and don’t laugh! Inside my bags are the following 1) Organic Earl Grey Tea2) Organic Coffee3) Organic Lemon Squash Couldn’t bring anything from Greece except ...

Moments – Lenten Week in Greece

Lenten week in Greece, people abstain meat for 40 days (well only the real faithful- the rest do it the week before Easter). This man here sells, salted anchovies,mackarels, tuna, sardines ...

Real Fast Food: Chicken Tarragon

Nico usually lacks confidence in cooking for Markus, Sha and Jo. (we are all better at cooking than him J) So when he volunteers to cook for us, we humour him and so far he has never failed ...

The Forgotten Delicacies

Intestines,lung,oxtail tongue, heart, liver, kidney, sweetbread and tripe.Location:Athens Central Market, a place full of discoveries

Makarones Me Kima – A Real Greek Recipe

Today I told M to meet me at Syndagma Sq. so we can do our errands in town. The day turned out to be warm and we just toddle off around town with the direction towards Omonia, passing ...

The British Pub Culture

The landlord recommends: YOUNG’S SPECIAL PREMIUM ALESmooth, tawny bitter with sweet malty citrus notes and a dry after tastefrom this Wandsworth-based brewery. ABV: 4.6%, That’s was on ...

And in the Gaelic world…

Croque monsieur (kROHK muhs-YOOR)If you are in France and on a tight budget, and has gotten bored of baguette and paninis, try the Croque monsieur. As I mentioned earlier that we had a Swiss ...

ORGANICK, LISS, HAMPSHIRE, UK

Just a thought… I must have been a cook in my past life, a passionate amateur photographer of my present, I wish my after life I will reincarnate as food photographer and food critic. ...