December 2015

  • Christmas in Germany Part 1: Zugspitze & sledging

    My family and I had decided to spend Christmas 2015 in Germany. My brother had spent some time on a family road trip there during the summer and had fallen in love with it. On their previous visit they had taken their car on the overnight ferry from Harwich to…

  • The BEST coffee maker

    The BEST coffee maker

    As my friends and family will happily confirm, I love my coffee. Some would even call me a coffee snob. I don’t do instant, regardless of how many adverts of ‘just like the real thing’ I see or how many gold stripes are contained upon the jar design. So I’ve…

  • Cycling on the Monterey Peninsula

    Monterey is a picturesque seaside town in mid-California. The peninsula juts out into the Pacific ocean just north of the infamous Big Sur, a dramatic stretch of wild, ragged coastline that runs around 80 miles from San Simeon in the south to Carmel in the South. In a recent 2015…