When I travel to a new country I like to explore the supermarkets. I have a habit of picking up local delicacies or simply popular foods. Assuming of course that they aren't perishable and will fit in my bag. So when I go to Spain I'll pick up a few tins of seafood as well as chorizo and lomo. When I'm in France I might pick up mustards and paté, while in the US I tend to opt … [Read more...] about South African Chutney
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Blogging, Writing and More
I first started blogging using one of my personal domains back in November 2003. Back then I was using mneylon.com as my main personal domain. Since then I switched over to michele.me and then, more recently, over to michele.blog. For historical reasons my blog used to live under "/blog", but when I moved over to michele.blog I moved it to the domain root. That means that … [Read more...] about Blogging, Writing and More
2019 Travel Stats
Unlike last year I don't have any more trips planned before the very end of the year, so I'm "done" for 2019. Of course I will be doing a few trips around Ireland before the end of the year, though I don't count them towards my overall numbers for the year. In 2019 I got to spend plenty of "quality time" on planes and in airports and clocked up over 209 thousand … [Read more...] about 2019 Travel Stats
London Recommendations?
I'm heading over to London in a few weeks time. I'll be there for a few days, including the weekend, as I'm in the south of England earlier that week for a work thing. I've been to London many times, but am looking for recommendations for: Gin / whisky barsRestaurantsOther things to do / see Like I know there's some gin distilleries in and around the city, but I've … [Read more...] about London Recommendations?
Getting a Taste of Japan
I've posted a few times over the past few days about some of my experiences in Japan. There are probably still a couple of short blog posts I could write about other things that struck me while I was there, but for now I thought I'd do an overview of the trip. As I mentioned a few weeks ago I planned to take this trip to coincide with a work trip. In the past I've added a … [Read more...] about Getting a Taste of Japan