A wonderful week in north Portugal: from Porto to Guimaraes; via Braga to Ponte de Lima, up to Lindoso, down to Viana do Castelo and back to Porto. We walked and ate and swam and took [...]

The Café Clock project moved from Fes to East London, at the weekend, where we set up a photo shoot for the remaining recipes. And then ate them, with free-flowing wine to keep us productive. Highlights [...]

Ostensibly a trip to take some missing photos for the Cafe Clock cook book, last weekend became an extended wander around Barcelona, with a side trip to Girona thrown in for good measure. We stayed in [...]

I’ve been in the Lake District, updating Fodor’s England guidebook. Highlights were great meals in the Queen’s Head in Troutbeck and The Jumble Room in Grasmere. There was also time for a few fantastic walks, especially a

We only missed a complete dumping by about 25 miles, but with the last couple of days looking as Christmas-beautiful as this it's hard to complain too much about our meagre inch or two of snow.

Cafe Clock, in Fes, Morocco, is the city's (and perhaps the country's) best cafe: a social nexus as well as a great place for a coffee or a camel burger. Last week I spent three days [...]