Travel, food, hotels,
and more.

What this is

This is the oldest part of the site, and most of it is food. I eat out more than is sensible, usually in whichever city I am living in rather than one I am passing through, which is why Barcelona and Switzerland turn up far more often than anywhere else. The rest is the trips: temples in Thailand, the Nile at Aswan, a long weekend somewhere I had never been and went back to anyway. Hotels when the stay was worth writing down. And the unglamorous part of living abroad: what it costs, how the paperwork goes, the things nobody mentions until you have already moved.

Everything here is written after the fact, usually from the place itself. Nothing is sponsored, nothing was comped, and no booking was made on anyone else’s account. When a meal was disappointing I say so, which is the only thing that makes the good ones worth reading about.