Coffee is interesting and I don’t know all that much about it. So it was really interesting to attend a seminar on the history of coffee at Texsom, presented by…
Craft Dark Milk Chocolate tasting with Cocoa Runners
A while back I went to my first ever chocolate tasting. It was held at the Winemakers Club under the arches at Farringdon, with Spencer Hyman of Cocoa Runners. The…
Sometimes we don’t taste the same wine often enough
Sometimes we don’t taste the same wine often enough. That seems like a strange statement, I know, but let me explain what I mean by this by using music as…
In Seattle: Le Pichet and Bar Melusine
There are few compelling reasons to be rich. But one of them is so that you have enough budget to eat out all the time. While I was in Seattle…
In Oregon: heading to the coast and Cannon Beach
In a gap between visiting wineries in the Willamette Valley, I had the chance to visit the Oregon coast for the first time. We stayed at Cannon Beach. It has…
Flying long haul budget: what’s the WestJet experience like?
I’m flying quite a bit at the moment. This year I’ve been to New Zealand, Portugal twice, France three times (Beaujolais, Alsace, Champagne), Germany, Spain, South Africa (twice), California (twice)…
Unintended and unexpected consequences
I was at a dinner last night when I heard the news. I really wasn’t expecting the British people to vote to leave the European Union. I was shocked. So,…
Elitism and accessibility
As I was waiting to board a recent flight, a group of young people in front of me were singing. Harmonising competently. Not too loudly, but for a moment it…
Travelling again, off to Germany
About to get on a plane. The destination? Germany. A wine country that I visit all too rarely, but which I always enjoy. My most recent visit was to the…