Author Archives: JJS
The great French cheese road trip
A love letter to mold, milk and regional pride Every cheese lover has the same recurring daydream: a slow drive across France, windows down, glovebox full of napkins, one region at a time, one wheel of something pungent at a … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 11
The long goodbye (to Sangria) Going home day. The kind of day where your body wakes up before your alarm, before the sun, and possibly before the hotel staff have finished dreaming about breakfast service. After a night of restless … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 10
The great Alcúdia-vs-Polleça beach-off (Pollença wins again) Last day. There’s a particular flavour of wind that only shows up on departure mornings, as if Mallorca itself is trying to hurry us toward the airport. It was blowing again today, and … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 9
Markets, misjudgments, and a race against the rain Cloudy start this morning — the sky doing its best impression of indecision, which, as it turns out, was foreshadowing. The usual breakfast was consumed with the usual efficiency, and with coffee … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 8
Port de Sóller, Wagyu beef and the great towel land grab Another holiday, another early night that has somehow reprogrammed my body clock into that of a farmer. But there are worse fates than being awake at 7am when your … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 7
Supercars, 150 Euros sunbeds and the tragedy of the waiting egg The new week arrived the way all good weeks should: with me still horizontal, polishing blog posts for a solid hour while the rest of the world pretended to … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 6
In which we are defeated by a beach and redeemed by a swimming pool Let it be known that our air conditioning unit staged a small rebellion overnight, deciding that “cooling” was more of a suggestion than a job description. … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 5
In which we flee Palma for a pool full of strangers Some mornings you wake up ready to conquer the world. Other mornings you wake up still negotiating a peace treaty with last night’s dinner. Today was very much the … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 4
But before the hangover, before the tea, before anything else — happy Golden Wedding Anniversary to us. Fifty years ago today, in England, we made it official. Fifty years! Some empires haven’t lasted that long. In which we turn fifty … Continue reading
Balearic adventures – Day 3
Castles, cocktails and a casualty of war (RIP, AirPod) 6:00am — Awake before the world, doing what any self-respecting blogger does: fixing a photo that refuses to load properly. It’s the small hills we choose to die on. Diagnosis: needs … Continue reading
I do it my way 