Anyone who visits Harrogate is always told they must go to Betty's Cafe & Tea Rooms. When we visited Harrogate, we dutifully took ourselves off to said tea rooms. Can't tell you if it was a pleasant surprise or a disappointment because it was an age ago, but I do remember wondering why these … [Read more...]

Never say never, but the chances of us telling you all about the gourmet meal we ate at some swanky restaurant in the middle of a Turkish city whilst on our travels are pretty slim. We usually have a foods-to-eat-agenda before we go anywhere, because most regions of Turkey have dishes and foods that … [Read more...]

In the Izmir seaside neighbourhood of Alsancak, there's a famous, pedestrianised shopping street called Kıbrıs Şehitleri Caddesi. Filled with high street stores, restaurants and patisseries it's Izmir's answer to Istanbul's Istiklal Caddesi, though it's much less crowded and the high-rise buildings … [Read more...]

Istanbul's Beyoğlu area has the famous Istiklal Caddesi - a pedestrianised stretch of shops and eateries and swarms of people weaving their way to their intended destination with varying degrees of success. It's a feature of the city, just as Alsancak's Kıbrıs Şehitler Caddesi is for Izmir - … [Read more...]