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We have just spent an amazing long weekend in Holland - The Hague to be precise. It's such a lovely city - not just criminal courts! I don't normally do high street shops as every high street in the UK pretty much looks the same. It's not until you venture somewhere special that you find interesting quirky shops (like Columbia Rd in London, for example). The nice thing about being in foreign climes is that even the high street shops are new and exciting! My favourites this time were Dille and Kamille and V&D. Dille and Kamille (the last two pictures) is a gorgeous shop that sells all the basics that you could possibly need for the home. It's a treasure trove of everything from gorgeous natural bent-wood chairs to kitchen utensils I didn't even know I needed! V&D is a department store, but the food counters had me drooling. The marzipan fruits (above) and the bizarre hog roast styled pigs (below) really did taste as good as they looked!
You know it is! Yes my friends - you are looking at the ass side of a party ring that's spent a bit too long in the icing line. That's right, iced on both sides! A new phenomenon for me - and I've eaten plenty of party rings in my time! Makes a change to the all chocolate Kit Kat where the wafer has gone walkies. Get munching, and see if you can find one!
I've been saving this super cute rabbit chocolate that my mum bought me last Easter - he was far too nice and colourful to eat! Anyway, now that Easter is almost upon us, and it is Bright Week I thought I would dust him off and take a picture of him. I wonder if the chocolate inside is still good to eat?
I had a fun dinner last night at Lucky 7 diner on Westbourne Park Rd in London. It was excellent - especially as they had the Inauguration of Barack Obama on on TV in there. It felt all very authentic! Lucky 7 is owned by Tom Conran (son of Terence Conran - of the Conran shops fame), and he has gone to town making the place feel as 1950's America as possible. It's super cosy with lovely booths, and the food is perfect (the right price and the right amount). I would recommend the milkshakes - they are amazing although very filling. Just in case you don't like burgers he has 2 other wonderful sounding restaurants that serve different food in the same area!
So, we've just been to Brighton as an after wedding getaway, so expect a few Brighton posts coming up :) To kick things off though here's a tip for all the rum drinkers out there like me. We came across the Saint James pub while walking back to the hotel. The sign outside read 'Hot Toddy made from homemade spiced rum' - I've never entered a pub as fast! It turns out that the Saint James is a lovely atmospheric pub, that has over 70 varieties of rum! Over 70! They also hold a rum club on the first Tuesday of every month (at 8pm), so if you are in the area, you should definitely go. They also serve what looked like the most amazing Thai food - if only we hadn't booked a restaurant (I can imagine I would have been there all night). My recommendation from the rum list is the Santa Teresa Rhum Orange - a gorgeously smooth orange based spiced rum.
The Real Boar Company produce some amazing looking salami from wild boar. The boar are ethically farmed in a pesticide free 20 acre woodland site in the Cotswolds where they forage for their natural food. The nicely designed gift boxes contain 375g of meat, and range in price from £15.50 to £19.50. Smaller vacuum packs are available. For more information, have a look at the web site.
We have just spent an amazing long weekend in Holland - The Hague to be precise. It's such a lovely city - not just criminal courts! I don't normally do high street shops as every high street in the UK pretty much looks the same. It's not until you venture somewhere special that you find interesting quirky shops (like Columbia Rd in London, for example). The nice thing about being in foreign climes is that even the high street shops are new and exciting! My favourites this time were Dille and Kamille and V&D. Dille and Kamille (the last two pictures) is a gorgeous shop that sells all the basics that you could possibly need for the home. It's a treasure trove of everything from gorgeous natural bent-wood chairs to kitchen utensils I didn't even know I needed! V&D is a department store, but the food counters had me drooling. The marzipan fruits (above) and the bizarre hog roast styled pigs (below) really did taste as good as they looked!
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