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Travel bites – Singapore, food on a stop over

Travel bites – Singapore, food on a stop over

Singapore. I absolutely love the place, and I have been lucky enough to visit a few times, albeit only for a couple of days each time. My recent stopover in this beautiful city saw us visiting some very interesting restaurant and not one (yeah I know) of the famous hawker’s centres. It was not on purpose – I would have loved to check out the Maxwell Street one or the East Coast Park area the time was not enough and…

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24 hours in Matera – i Sassi and some great food

24 hours in Matera – i Sassi and some great food

I am sure 24 in one place do not offer enough time to be a proper judge of the place’s culinary traditions and places to visit, yet I feel compelled to write about our quick fire visit to the stunning Sassi di Matera. We nearly didn’t make it. The day before myself and@bmcboy came off a scooter and badly bruised knee (me) and elbow (him), with nasty tarmac abrasions. Yet nothing stops me from visiting something I had been wanting…

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Easter in Normandy – Gourmand holiday

Easter in Normandy – Gourmand holiday

After weeks of rebuilding, fixing, polishing our 1961 Mini was ready to go on another #miniadventure. We made our way towards the coast on a Thursday afternoon, aiming to catch the 22.30 ferry. We made it to Dieppe a few hours later, after a few scary glitches on the car put our trip in jeopardy for a bit.  Cidre in the sun After a few hours resting in an Etap room, our first stop of the morning was Norauto –…

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Cuba: a tale of struggle, love and deceipt

Cuba: a tale of struggle, love and deceipt

How are the people of Cuba surviving their struggles?    We met someone. We tried to help. Or did we?   It was our last day in Havana. We were walking on one of the streets of Habana Vieja, slightly off the so called beaten tracks but still only ten minutes away from our swanky 5* hotel in the gorgeous Plaza San Francisco de Asis.   It was sunny, it was nearly midday and the road was pretty empty, mainly…

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