This pretty hill side town of Bosa in Sardinia, is a photographers idyll due to the pastel shades of the houses. Good food and wine, Malvasia de Bosa, make it worth visiting too.
Food
Discovering Sardinia and Alghero
This press trip, unusually, was set up by Alghero Airport, (direct flights from Luton, near London) to the North West of Sardinia, to encourage people to fly there. Which is a smart move. Unless ...
A different Greece – Kassandra peninsula
Blue blue electric blue"'Sound and Vision' David Bowie When you think of Greece, you envision the ancient stones of Athens, or the wine-dark sea and alabaster houses of the islands. Have you ...
Autumn windfall at Hampstead Ladies Pond
Ten years as a food writer and chef and I have to admit, figure and fitness suffer. This summer I did a kilometre a day swimming while on holiday. Back home, I am trying to continue at the Hampstead ...
A diamond wedding anniversary in Provence: love and recipes
I spent five weeks in France this summer at my parent's house near Port Grimaud in Provence, Var. Sadly, this is the last time as they are selling the house this autumn. Having a second home is a ...
Travel
La Baleine sea salt
'We are probably the first generation since the beginning of the world to be paranoid about salt'. We would all die without salt. It is the only mineral we eat straight out of the ground', says ...
Timber festival 2019
Timber is a new festival, only in its second year, run by the National Forest, based in the Midlands, near the exotically named Ashby-De-La-Zouch. I'm into the Japanese concept of 'forest bathing' and ...
Picota cherry season in Spain plus a recipe for cherry gazpacho
The Picota cherry comes from the Jerté valley, in Extremadura, Spain after being introduced by Arab farmers in the 14th century. Earlier this year I went to visit the valley in a cloud of snowy ...
An interview with Felicity Cloake
As the author of the weekly Guardian column 'How to make the perfect...' Felicity Cloake, at a mere 36 years old, is fast reaching national treasure status. Fair-skinned with laughing eyes, originally ...
MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.
Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.
This is my food and travel blog, with recipes, reviews and travel stories. I also stray into politics, feminism, gardening.