Bucket list – where next?

In no particular order, these are some of the places I really, really would like to visit over the coming years...just need to save up now! Maybe some of it I could do in one trip to save on more airfare costs from multiple trips? Join in the Holi festival in India (and to eat … Continue reading Bucket list – where next?

Baked Bean Buns

So my lovely friend is into making some…interesting things…and baked bean cakes are a recent addition. Watch this space for spinach cake next!

Buildings & Baking

Bear with me. I promise.

Through this recipe, if you’re anything like me, you’ll go through the following stages of “whaaaat am I doing?”, “whose silly idea was this?”, “woah this tastes kinda beany” but, I promise, you’ll end up wondering why you ever doubted your culinary creation!

Stick with it!

Ingredients:

For the cake:

  • 200 g raisins12212486_10153062987095683_523255492_n
  • 240 ml boiling water
  • 1 can of baked beans (with tomato sauce)
  • 3 eggs
  • 240 ml vegetable oil
  • 225 g granulated sugar
  • 450 g plain flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 115 g pecan nuts
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

For the icing:

  • 50 g butter/margarine
  • 110 g icing sugar
  • 1 cap full of milk (literally the lid of the milk carton filled with milk)
  • A splash of vanilla extract

Method:

For the cake:

  • Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees…

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Top 10 things I really should do in London

So I've wanted to live here for years, and now I do! Living in London is great, but you know what, there's so much I've never done here, so here's my London bucket list, what would you add or change? Explore King Henry 8th's Hampton Court palace (maybe go ice skating?) Watch Simba be triumphant … Continue reading Top 10 things I really should do in London

Favourite photos of sunsets

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One of the 2 buildings Baba cafe had

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Croatia: Sun, Sea, Sailing

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Planning a trip ✈️🇺🇸🗽

There is some great advice in this blog. When I went travelling, beforehand I spent ages questioning how much to plan. And I pretty much ended up doing everything on this list (except booking stuff beforehand). To add to this a little - read travel blogs like this one, look on YouTube, Instagram, Periscope - … Continue reading Planning a trip ✈️🇺🇸🗽

How To Make Friends in a Hostel

If you are traveling alone or with others, it's likely that you will, at some point, become friendly with others along the way. For some, this is easy, for others - particularly at the start of a trip - not so much. So here are some tips you can use to help 'break the ice' … Continue reading How To Make Friends in a Hostel

Croatia: All the Sailin’ Ladies

So I recently went sailing with 6 other ladies. Six. Ladies. On a boat. For a week. aaaaaaand go. I'd never been sailing before, so this was a new adventure for me. And I'd always been pretty desperate to go to Croatia - ever since half my life ago when an old teacher of mine told … Continue reading Croatia: All the Sailin’ Ladies