Category: Food

  • Nassau and Sandals Barefoot Cay, day 4, 310325

    Nassau and Sandals Barefoot Cay, day 4, 310325

    On day 4 of our chill-out holiday , we were down for breakfast at about 9am. It was our usual location at Kanoo for buffet style breakfast so I had a mix of fruit and cheeses. Once we’d eaten we headed back to our room to put on the usual suncream/swimwear and went down to…

  • Nassau, day 3, 300325

    Nassau, day 3, 300325

    Today was the day when I thought I’d really overdone it with the cocktails from the night before, in the Piano Bar. It’s great having an all inclusive deal, but it creates opportunities and situations that I’d rather not be in. I still felt squiffy when I got up and wished I hadn’t overindulged. Gluttony,…

  • Nassau, day 2, 290325

    Nassau, day 2, 290325

    I woke early doors…not surprising really as my body clock was still in UK time. It was 5:00am, which is four hours behind UK, but couldn’t get back to sleep. In the end I made a cuppa and went back to bed. Eventually I made the decision to get up and go for breakfast. We…

  • Nassau, day 1, 280325

    Nassau, day 1, 280325

    After leaving work early on Thursday, we travelled down to London on Hull Trains, then had an hour Tube ride on the Piccadilly Line. After enjoying our evening at the Sofitel at London Heathrow Terminal 5, we had an early wake up call on Friday morning. We used express checkout to save ourselves any bother…

  • Helsinki, day 6, 020125

    Helsinki, day 6, 020125

    We had a bit of a lie in today and didn’t go down to breakfast until about 09:15. We enjoyed a decent breakfast and I even tried the in-house rooibos tea that is produced especially for the hotel. We then went back to the room and I tried out the private sauna for about twenty…

  • Tallinn-Helsinki, day 5, 010125

    Tallinn-Helsinki, day 5, 010125

    We awoke after the New Year’s Eve celebrations to a blanket of snow in Tallinn. It was roughly zero degrees when we had breakfast and then slightly warmer when we ventured out. We walked up the steps close to the hotel that allowed us to access the upper town. We saw some great views of…

  • Tallinn, Estonia, day 4, 311224

    Tallinn, Estonia, day 4, 311224

    Well what a fabulous day to end the year. We started off with a breakfast and champagne before heading out into the Estonian winter. We decided to go to Creative City first thing, but it was freezing cold and snowing. It wasn’t the best day to be wandering around, but I wanted to see the…

  • Tallinn, Estonia, day 3, 301224

    Tallinn, Estonia, day 3, 301224

    It was a fairly early start this morning, due to us starting out on the second part of our break. We packed our bags before heading down to breakfast which opened at 8am. The dining area was quiet and we had a good choice of breakfast items again, served with a pot of tea.  Afterwards,…

  • Helsinki, Finland, day 2, 291224

    Helsinki, Finland, day 2, 291224

    I didn’t have the best night’s sleep in the hotel. I think my body clock was all messed up, with an early start yesterday and the two hour time difference. That along with the excesses of Christmas were surely having an effect on me and I felt very restless.  I didn’t rush to get up…

  • Helsinki, Finland, day 1, 281224

    Helsinki, Finland, day 1, 281224

    Travelling down to Heathrow on the day after Boxing Day was not the best journey I have ever encountered. The whole of the country was pretty much shrouded in thick fog. On top of that it seemed that every man and his dog was travelling home after the festivities. There was so much congestion with…