• Travel
  • A real taste of local life: Northern Shan State, Myanmar

    Kyaukme, Palaung, Shan, Burmese, Myanmar,

    A fantastic couple of days We had a couple of hours to wander round the small town of Kyaukme before heading to bed to prepare ourselves for our five am start the next day. Five am seemed a little early even for an occasion as big as a wedding but for the people of Myanmar […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 03.06.13

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly roundup of the sweetest treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s 5 of our favourites…. This week’s sweet treats (clockwise from top left): One of my guilty pleasures; a huge bakewell tart flavoured flapjack from Blackfriars Bakery.  Sticky toffee pudding with chunks of walnuts and […]