CDWM II: Lauren’s dessert

When I go to a restaurant I’m most likely to pick whatever is made of chocolate when it comes to the dessert menu. I occasionally pass this off to myself as research into finding the best chocolate cake, but really it’s just down to the fact that I like chocolate, I don’t like fruit desserts [...]

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NYC: Seaports and bridges

On our penultimate day in New York we made South Street Seaport our first stop in order to buy theatre tickets for the evening. We joined a long queue in the sunshine with everyone else who’d had the same idea. Ticket touts were going up and down the line advertising their wares, assuring everyone that [...]

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CDWM II: Lauren’s main course

This time around I’ve been thinking that it’s just as well I took home the menus after the Come Dine With Me evenings, because it’s taking me so long to get to blogging the meals that I’d never remember the funny names of some of the dishes. Those above though are easy – onion bhajis [...]

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NYC: Bullocks

After filling up on delicious food, the next part of our Downtown Day was to visit the Charging Bull on our way home. It was a totally touristy thing to do and we were fine with that. Walking up Broadway to see the New York Stock Exchange, he was on our way anyway. He’s a [...]

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CDWM II: Lauren’s starter

The invitation to “Bromleywood” should have been a clue, but it wasn’t to me. When we arrived at Lauren’s for her Come Dine With Me evening (almost two months ago now!) we entered into our own little India, with a bindi-fied, sash-wearing hostess and fantastic smells of spices wafting up from the kitchen. We were [...]

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NYC: Battery Park and Pearl Street

Back on Manhattan island we hung out for a while in Battery Park in the early evening sunshine. Next to us a cartoonist was sketching a couple of little boys and a guy approached us offering us some sweets … which sounds exactly like the sort of thing we were warned about when we were [...]

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NYC: Ellis Island

Having sailed around the Statue of Liberty we were headed to Ellis Island and the Immigration Museum, housed in the Main Building. It’s a huge and beautiful place, built in 1900 and with areas now restored to their 1918 to 1924 appearance. From the moment you step off the ferry, before you’ve even collected your [...]

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NYC: Liberty Island

After a long, but fairly entertaining wait for the ferry to Liberty Island we finally boarded and set off across the water. The boat was fairly full, with lots of people upstairs for a good view. I settled on a bench by the window to take a photo or two, Suzy making a wonderful silhouette [...]

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