• Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats: 28/03/2014

    Ben & Jerry's, Greek yogurt, Malteaster, Durleighmarsh Tea Barn, lemon polenta, cake, bakewell tart, Capers, Southsea, rice balls, Vietnam, backpacking, sweet treats. lovelifelovecake

    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. Helen enjoyed these ‘strange jelly-like balls’ as she describes them in yesterdays blog post and found out later that they were actually glutinous rice […]

  • Travel
  • Never judge a book by its cover: Mui Ne, Vietnam

    Beach, bikes and buses!   The bus from Ho Chi Minh City was surprisingly Ok and allowed me to catch up with a little sleep. Having been unable to book online I tried my luck at the Mui Ne Backpackers Hostel but unfortunately they were full. Wandering the streets with a heavy backpack on in 30c heat […]

  • Petersfield
  • Alexandra’s Kitchen, Petersfield

    Alexandras Kitchen, alexandras kitchen durleighmarsh, Alexandras's Kitchen Petersfield, alexandra's Kitchen Rogate

    UPDATE: 12/07/2018 – scroll to bottom of post I’ve just come back from a very nice late lunch with my favourite sister Gill at Alexandra’s Kitchen , Durleighmarsh Farm. I was told of this place only yesterday by my cycling pal, Jan as she had been at the weekend whilst out walking in the area. I thought […]

  • Products
  • Philippe Bouvier – Chocolatier

    Philippe Bouvier, Rennes, St.Malo

    A while back I wrote about my cycling trip to Brittany, France. All week I hadn’t had a chance to find any chocolates along the pretty country lanes or small villages we cycled through, but on the last day on our way back to the ferry port in St.Malo I found some, not only in the […]