This was not the meal I expected to have. What got me in was their ‘Around Iceland’ menu. We travel for food. When we get somewhere we like to eat what is locally loved (fermented shark meat and all). We also like to see as much of a place as possible; which when you’ve only […]
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“Hákarl is traditionally prepared by gutting and beheading a Greenland or basking shark and placing it in a shallow hole dug in gravelly-sand, with the now-cleaned cavity resting on a slight hill. The shark is then covered with sand and gravel, and stones are then placed on top of the sand in order to press […]
Sometimes you get an invitation that you just can’t refuse. “Why don’t you come up to the house for dinner? We can cook together in the afternoon? I’ll pick you up from the train.” One week and five hours later my hands are streaked with sticky blood. So is the handsome wooden table. In front […]
A good book. A glass of wine. A piece of soda bread. Those are happy places, right there. So imagine my delight when I find all three in the one spot. The Winding Stair is a well loved bookstore in Dublin. It’s also a stonkingly good casual bistro on the north side of the Liffey. […]
I’m a sucker for nice hotels. I really am. It’s the little things that get to me. A newspaper on the door knob in the morning. Clean sheets and fluffy towels. A choice of tea bags. A voluminous robe. There are few things in life that make me more excited. Last weekend we went to […]