‘Travel’ Archives
Well Bread: We Review Brood Bar, Amsterdam
Good Brood. Amsterdam's bread bar is fast, friendly and far from crusty. Just a short hop for hungry travellers emerging from Amsterdam's Centraal Station, and closer still to Nieuemarkt if you're looking for landmarks, you can find satisfyingly simple Brood Bar on the [Read More]
Restaurant Review: Hemelse Modder, Amsterdam
Set back from the hubbub but within touching distance of the action, Contemporary Dutch restaurant Hemelse Modder represents the best of central Amsterdam, combining a warm, relaxed welcome with excellent food and a few refreshingly civilised, open-minded touches of the [Read More]
A Simple Plan(e): We Review Strategic Airlines Flights
I'm not sure what the strategy is; shoddy, knackered planes and rude incompetence? Air travel can be a grisly business when you do it on a budget, something akin to the endurance sport of the rush hour commute, to be tolerated with a combination of Zen philosphy and [Read More]
Review: The Watermill Inn and Brewing Co, the Lake District
The Watermill Inn is situated in an easy-to-miss spot in the village of Ings just off the A591 from Kendal to Windermere, within easy reach of Ambleside, Hawkshead and Keswick. I recently passed a night at the Watermill on a family break and found it to be utterly [Read More]
Manchester Metrolink Season Tickets
We have grievances with Manchester’s Metrolink tram service, of course we do. The colour scheme is obviously vile and incomprehensible (gunmetal gray and yellow anyone?), and, as occasional as lengthy delays are, the frequent slight discrepancy when trams arrive late (and [Read More]
