Category: Guide
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The 5 Best Budget Restaurants in Toulouse
When I eat out, my first port of call is to google ‘budget restaurants in Toulouse’. I assume most of us do this, inserting our own home cities at the end. Eating is quite possibly one of the most enjoyable activities and food, well, it’s not free. So, the best option is to find restaurants,…
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The 4 Best Affordable To-Go Lunches in Toulouse
In the summer, a picnic is always a good idea. For those of us from famously wet countries, a picnic in the rain is part of our national identity, and not even a storm can keep us away from our scotch eggs and plastic-wrapped sandwiches. Toulouse in the summer, while a little wayward like a…
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Your Guide for 5 Days by the Lisbon Beaches
Gaylord and I took a break from the flat’s darkness and fresh paint smell and spent five days on the south bay of Lisbon. We had hoped, pointlessly it turns out, that the painters would collapse their staggering stories of scaffolding in our absence – we would be gone a full five days after all,…
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The Best Hidden Beer Gardens for Summer in Toulouse
Every year when summer rolls around, I find myself nursing some very specific cravings: 1. Pimm’s – ideally with a medley of fruits, cucumber and mint floating on the surface. 2. Olives. Big, meaty ones, the brinier the better! 3. And last but not least, a beer garden or terrace with outdoor seating, ideally shaded…
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The Best Tea and Cake in Toulouse
For some reason, it is drilled into us from nursey age that there are three meals a day. I would like to propose that there should be a fourth meal and that one is clearly the tea and cake course. Not that I need to tell you, dear reader, I’m sure you’re like me and…
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The 5 Best Affordable Restaurants in Toulouse
I’d always wanted to live abroad and finally in 2019, I boarded that plane, carrying my life on my back. Incidentally, that flight took me to New Zealand, and through a series of exciting, surprising (and then there was a little pandemic) circumstances, I’m now living in France! In Toulouse in fact. Do you know…
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Gingerbread marshmallows
I appear to have travelled through time. I blinked and somehow it’s advent. Time travel is clearly the only logical answer – although the time machine would have to be invisible and must be parked in one of the few unused parking spaces outside. And all users would have had their memories magically wiped. But,…
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The 4 Best Toast Toppings
The easiest snack in the world. It’s a piece of cake, or should I say, toast. And the great thing about this snack is the fact there is such a thing as toast toppings. If there is a snack that can withstand all weathers, it is toast. From Welsh rarebit dripping with cheese in the…
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How to Make Easy Crumpets
I haven’t inherited much in terms of features from my dad, but using all the kitchen equipment for one meal seems to be genetic trait. Gaylord will be the first to tell you that I am a messy cook. According to him, when he’s faced with the washing up which I always insist ‘really isn’t…
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Classic Lasagne with Three Cheeses
Before you immediately click away from this recipe because of course you know how to make lasagne, or you may be apologetically shrugging as if to say ‘so sorry Ally but my mum’s recipe for lasagne is unbeatable’, I’m just going to quickly say – you haven’t tried this lasagne. And I’m also going to…