• Weekly Treats
  • This Week’s Sweet Treats: 25/04/2014

    Vietnam, The Noah's Ark Inn, Lurgashall, Midhurst, West Sussex, carrot cake, Garton's, Beceries, apple & pecan ring, Rhurbarb fool, ginger shortbread, Cupcake, Petwroth, Bay Tree

    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! Clockwise from top left: 1. Deliciously creamy rhubarb fool, topped with flaked almonds and served with a home-made ginger shortbread. We enjoyed a lovely lunch at The Noah’s Ark Inn, Lurgashall, West Sussex at the […]

  • Travel
  • Food glorious food: Hanoi, Vietnam

    After leaving Sven in Cat Ba, the seven of us travelled north to the city of Hanoi, the old capital of Vietnam. Rich in history and culture there’s no shortage of museums and places of interest. Not particularly fond of museums I found there wasn’t much to do in Hanoi apart from eat, which made it […]

  • West Sussex
  • Noah’s Ark Inn, Lurgashall, West Sussex.

    Lurgashall, West Sussex,

    UPDATE: see bottom of post. Each year around Easter time my husband Geoff and I go on a lovely country walk where we meet no one apart from the farmer in his tractor. I can’t tell you exactly where it is for fear of spoiling it (and if I did I’d have to kill you) […]

  • Travel
  • From heaven to hell in a day: Phong Nha National Park, Vietnam

    A hell of a day in more ways than one We arrived at the Phong Nha National Park in good time, only an hour or so late which by Asian standards is great. My hopes had been set in staying at the Phong Nha Farmstay but they were full so I decided to book us all […]