• Weekly Treats
  • This Week’s sweet treats: 25/07/2014

    pancakes, Gili Meno, Gili Islands, Indonesia, Gili Meno Eco Hostel, travel, backpacking, malteser cake, Aldingbourne Trust, Aldingbourne, Chichester, flan, strawberries, raspberries, quick-gel, salted caramel & chocolate pot, Pots & Co, puddings, Greens Cakes, rhubarb fool, elderflower cheesecake foam, rhubarb sorbet, almond crunch, The Richmond Arms, West Ashling, West Sussex, country pub

    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. Pancakes drizzled with honey made by a volunteer was on the breakfast menu at Gili Meno‘s Eco Hostel, Indonesia. Helen’s taken a break from travelling and is now […]

  • 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 […]

  • Travel
  • A backpackers paradise: Vang Vieng, Laos

    I can see why most backpackers love Vang Vieng so much. Accomodation is cheap and the streets are lined with stalls selling western-style baguettes for just over a dollar and peanut butter and Nutella pancakes for the same price. Western-style restaurants showing episodes of ‘Friends’ and ‘How I met you mother’ are everywhere and you can even […]

  • London
  • Breakfast at Karpo

    One Saturday morning I was stopped in my tracks by the cakes in Karpo’s window. I walked back to admire the menu and immediately texted Sam to let him know we were going there for breakfast the following day. We arrived early Sunday morning and sat down underneath the impressive skylight at the back of […]