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Month: October 2012

Postcard of the Week: Pesto Recipe

Pesto alla Genovese, a speciality of Liguria, is eaten on everything, from pizza to ciabatta to all varieties of pasta. Many tourists come to Italy with a food tour of […]

City View Travel Photography Competition

           A browse on Twitter lead me to this travel photography competition run by Millennium & Copthorne Hotels. To enter I have to tweet the URL of a photo I […]

Postcard of the Week: Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang is one of the most beautiful cities in South-East Asia. It’s so petite and intimate that it can barely be called a city in fact. It sits upon […]

Postcard of the Week: Limoncello Recipe

Although this recipe purports to be for Limoncino, that is in fact just the Ligurian name for the better known Limoncello, an after-dinner lemon liqueur produced all over Italy, although […]

Postcard of the Week: Exeter

          I simply couldn’t leave out a postcard from Exeter, my home for three years during university. When looking into various universities during my A-Levels, I read a sentence about […]

Must-have Books for the Keen Traveller

Currently on my bookshelf: 1000 Places to See Before You Die – Organised by country, I like to tick off the ones I’ve visited. The Lonely Planet Travel Book – […]

Postcard of the Week: Azulejos

Azulejos are bluish tiles that are found all over Portugal, especially in Lisbon. In this colourful city it’s actually more unusual to find a wall without decorative tiles than with. […]