• Travel
  • The perfect place to recover: Sagada, Philippines

    Echo Valley, hanging coffins, Sagada, Banaue, Strawberry Cafe, pancakes, home-made yogurt, Sagada Brew, Strawberry Cafe, sweet mountain tea, George Guesthouse

    Crawling up and sliding down mountains  The five hour journey from Banaue to Sagada was painfully slow due to the sluggish driving, a real contrast than that experienced throughout the rest of Asia. Myself, Jaimie, Janine and Eric arrived in Sagada and like in Batad, were ushered into the Tourist Office and made to pay our […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 20/06/2014

    sweet treats, banana, condensed milk, Philippines, The Shoe Exton, Exton, chocolate brownie, brandy snap basket, Bill's, chichester, Capers, Southsea, Portsmouth, cinnamon doughnuts, strawberries, chocolate dipping sauce, treacle tart, fruit jellies, La Colombe, Sainte colombe, Bedoin, Mont Ventoux,

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites!  1. A classic filipino snack, banana with condensed milk made by Drew at All Hands base, Tacloban, Philippines where Helen has been helping on Project Leyte after the typhoon […]

  • Travel
  • Putting my body through hell for one of the world’s wonders: Batad, Philippines

    Unescoerraces, Peoples Guesthouse, Philippines, trekking, Pulo, Cordilla, Cambulo

    Crawling up and sliding down mountains  After a few days of doing essentially nothing, myself, Jaimie, Eric and Janine caught the night bus from Manila to the small town of Banaue, synonymous to the Unesco World Heritage-listed Ifugo rice terraces – sometimes called by locals as the “Eighth Wonder of the World” – which span the Cordilla, […]

  • France
  • La Colombe – a real discovery

    La Colombe, Sainte Colombe, Bedoin, France, Mt.Ventoux, Mont Ventoux, cycling, aubergine, tapenade, amuse bouche, sabayon, financier

    I was staying with 3 cycling pals at La Garance, a lovely hotel on Route de Mont Ventoux which is in a small hamlet called Sainte Colombe in the department of Vaucluse in the Province, south of France. From sunrise until sunset cyclists would be ascending and descending the mountain. Around the hamlet it is very pretty […]