UPDATED FROM THE ORIGINAL 11 1) Go anywhere, anywhere near Heathrow Airport when it snows London is not Stockholm, Moscow, Berlin or Toronto. It cannot cope with snow. It runs around after its tail, flurrying and freaking for a few moments when the sky threatens white; and then it stops. Quiet, silent meditation is fine. …
Travel
We’re about to go off on one more big jaunt (I promise, it’s probably one of the last for a while). Four weeks; 12 flights, eight cities. It includes least two insane, mortgage busting restaurant reservations (D.O.M in Sao Paulo and 11 Madison Park). There’s going to be New Years in Panama, then a skip …
It’s a city for swish design, coffee, Scandi food and technical clothing. Don’t kid yourself. Helsinki in winter is cold. But there are plenty of things to warm you up, from the original saunas (saw-na) to epic hot dogs. You could go for a week. You could turn your visit into a two day minibreak …
Faviken is not a restaurant that you casually decide to go to on a Tuesday night. The location may have something to do with it. More than 600 km north of Stockholm it nudges up towards the Arctic Circle. Visiting this 12-seater restaurant on a 24,000-acre hunting property in Jämtland requires some planning. First, there’s …
Puff pastry, brittle as brik, which sheds all over your palms and sleeves like a storm of Autumn leaves. A crisp outside sheltering a bump of pliant filling. Really, what’s not to like? Pastizzi, or Maltese pastry snacks were frequently present in our freezer back in Sydney; an excellent emergency entertaining option. We’d tumble them …
