There’s something lovely about a wee stop in Wales, just to round off the trip with a spin through the beautiful valleys and this time we discovered the BEST carrot cake in the world, in a tiny bakery in Betws-y-Coed. Thankfully, it’s easier to go back there for carrot cake than Belgium for beer, or France […]

On the way through France again, the sight of a field of mostly-still-alive-sunflowers called for a quick photo stop and as much as I tried I couldn’t get around for a shot of their faces but then I spotted this little cheeky one… still, next time, we’re going in full on sunflower season. Now, where […]

Of course, no gingerbread house is complete without a bunny in the garden! I did some spur of the moment gingerbread baking and didn’t fancy putting an entire house together so i made some biscuits and this little house facade, which was just the right size to sit on my little cake stand, perfect! I […]

Pumpkin carving wasn’t something that I grew up doing for Halloween – in the north of Scotland we had a tradition of ‘guising’, where we would dress up and visit the other houses in the village, and we would only be given sweets if we did ‘a party piece’ – sing a song, tell a […]

We were back up in the mountains on our way from Italy to Switzerland, and it occurred to me that we hadn’t seen any of those alpine flowers that I’d been expecting. Except then we stopped to check the gps and all of a sudden I noticed them, all around, tiny, and all different colours […]

Susa was another stop in Italy, and another pleasant surprise. Still touristy to a certain extent but obviously far further off the beaten track than Sirmione, the town centre was a little bit run down but the really good stuff was off up little streets. We followed signs for an ampitheatre, not know what kind […]

In the same way that I’ve always had preconceived notions of how much I would love France, I wasn’t particularly excited about Italy. I knew we wouldn’t be seeing those familiar guidebook scenes of Tuscan hills, so I didn’t think about it much. We paid a little extra for the hotel in Sirmione on Lake […]