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What to Do With Hotel Soap The following letters are taken from an actual incident between a London hotel and one of its guests. The Hotel ended up submitting the letters to the London Sunday Times! Dear Maid, Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap in my bathroom since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial. Please remove the six unopened little bars from the shelf under the medicine chest and another three in the shower soap dish. They are ... Read More

Perhaps because I studied classical guitar I have always held an affinity with Spain and in particular that part called Andalusia which is the heart of Flamenco and the birthplace of Andres Segovia. We visited an area where the Tejeda and Almijara mountains tumble down to the Mediterranean, a land where in spring, the lilac blue Jacaranda the vermillion bougainvillea and the pink carpet of cornflowers enhance the olive green and sky blue backdrop with little pools of brilliant colour. Drive inland ... Read More

Ultracomida this fantastic little delicatessen and a tapas bar, was discovered for us, by I think Anthony, my Wife's Brother, some time last year. Ever since then when we travel down to the Welsh coast to spend the odd day or two in the family caravan near Abereron we always try to time our trip so that we can be in Aberystwyth in time for lunch. The name Ultracomida is Spanish in origin, ultramarina meaning delicatessen and comida meaning food. Spanish and ... Read More

In the catering industry, as you know, we sometimes get weeks when Murphy’s law comes very much to the fore, if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, and usually at the most inconvenient times. This has been just such a week, our problems ... Read More

Street cooks are magicians: With little more than a cart and a griddle, mortar, or deep-fryer, they conjure up not just a delicious snack or meal but the very essence of a place.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "World’s Best Street Food", url: "http://waterdine.co.uk/Blog/2008/05/worlds-best-street-food/" }); Read More