My Christmas Hampers

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Last year I started making original, economic and eco-friendly presents for Christmas. My solution: making soe cute Christmas hampers full of treats and delicacies. They do not cost even 10% the price of the famous Fortnum & Masons’ hampers, but they look just as nice and most importantly – they are unique! They require a [...]

Perfectly fluffy “flying” scones

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Recipe Nutrition Environment Wine Match Recipe Ingredients Base: 200g plain flour (white or wholemeal) 50g cold butter 150cl full fat milk at room temperature 1 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar 4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt For sweet scones: 1 tablespoon caster sugar To taste: raisins, cinnamon, vanilla pod…. For savoury scones: Different combinations [...]

My best photos

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Please find below some of the best shots I have made over the past six years, with all sorts of material: Iphone, a basic student digital camera and more recently my Canon EOS 450D.

Cycling in London safely

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We now all agree that cycling is the best way of going around in London: it is good for you, good for the planet, it saves time, money, etc. I have never ever been so conviced of that as since I bought myself a cute  pink Brompton bike. You can see a video of the [...]

Massaya, Wine of the Levant

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In May this year I had the chance to visit the Massaya vineyards in the Lebanon. Lebanon is one of the eldest wine producing countries in the world. It is there, in the fertile Bekaa Valley, that the temple of Bacchus was built about 150 before A.D. This makes from the Lebanon neither an “old [...]