• Portsmouth
  • Capers Cafe, Southsea

    My husband and I decided to return to Capers Cafe in Marmion Road, Southsea today for brunch. We first paid them a visit at the beginning of December and again a week or two later and both times it had been very good, the service friendly with great food. We couldn’t get a seat at first so went […]

  • Travel
  • Pai in Love – backpacking tales

    And so it begins After a sad farewell I headed four hours north of Chiang Mai to the small town of Pai situated in the Mae Hong Son region of Thailand. Popular with backpackers, Pai was relatively unknown until a few years back but it is now popular with tourists and Thai locals too and forms […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This Week’s Sweet Treats: 24/01/2014

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of the some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week and the last for this year. Here’s five of our favourites.From top left, clockwise: 1. Delicious hot bread pudding served with plenty of cream from Driftwood Cafe, Emsworth part of The Pavilion at Stansted Park which we reviewed recently. 2. […]

  • Portsmouth
  • Southsea Coffee Co. A friendly little coffee house.

      UPDATE: 17/1/2023 – see bottom of post UPDATE: 16/08/2017 – see bottom of post I think Southsea Coffee Co. is starting to become one of my favourite local places for lunch. I’ve been there three times now and each time is as good as the first with the friendly staff, the food and the general ‘feel’ […]