This is going to be a short blog, because I spent pretty much an afternoon and evening in Brussels before hopping on the Eurostar back home first thing the next morning. Luckily, my hotel was just around the corner from Kitsune …
Last month, I had the pleasure of spending a few days in Ghent. It is, so I read, known for being the most veggie friendly city in Belgium. We certainly ate well - here's a few of the places we tried. The first stop on the v…
August 1, 2024
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breakfast
Eurostar's vegan breakfast: What you get for brekkie with a standard premier ticket
If you're reading this, you're probably a vegan. I certainly am. If you're a vegan, you've probably found yourself doing more research into eating options than the average non-vegan: does that town have any vegan…
Lockdown is, so I'm told, the perfect time to do new things. I guess the people that say that don't have heavy duty jobs, or kids to look after, or are carers. But let's pretend we're all using this time to do new…
Photo by Martin Lostak on Unsplash When the coronavirus pandemic first started to make its way over here, I remember walking into our local supermarket and being taken aback by the empty shelves. There were massive gaps whe…
How are you doing, friends? I hope you're keeping well and as unbored as you can be in the circumstances. I don't know about you, but the days here are slipping into sameness. Time has become liquid to me -- when I think …
May 4, 2020
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home cooking
lockdown
picnic
Life under lockdown: Three ways to recreate what you're missing at home
Every so often, I catch myself making a list of all the things that I'm going to do once the lockdown is over -- all the things that I used to do every week and haven't done for ages, or one of those one-off things I'…
April 27, 2020
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banana bread
cake
polenta
sweden
vegan
Life under lockdown: I reckon we all need more comfort food right now
Hey blog friends, how has lockdown been treating you? It may be anecdotal, but it seems like among me and a few of my friends, we've all hit a wall recently. I've been keeping indoors as much as possible, going out to pic…
For some people, lockdown is the excuse to spring clean the house, or write a novel, or learn a new language. For me, it's the perfect time to dig out some cookbooks and make some new dishes. A couple of months ago, I bought …
April 12, 2020
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home cooking
muffins
vegan
Life under lockdown: Keep cooking (vegan food) and carry on
Is it even possible to write a blog without mentioning coronavirus at the moment? The answer's probably yes, if you're a better blogger than I am. But for me, what else is there to write about? I can't imagine there a…
April 1, 2020
Life under lockdown: How I'm trying to make the best of social distancing and not going out
Photo by Yulia Khlebnikova on Unsplash Social-distancing has surely got to be a shoe-in for the Oxford Dictionary's word (two words?) of the year. Everyone's talking about it - to each other on the phone or messaging…
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