Author Archives: rmgtravelsandfood
Sunday scones
Last Sunday morning we baked two batches of scones, one sweet, the other savoury. Maggie likes to take a scone to work for morning tea and both of these scone varieties can be frozen then reheated successfully in a microwave … Continue reading
Our tour of Central Europe with Insight Vacations
From 10 May to 23 May, we travelled on Insight Vacations “Highlights of Central & Eastern Europe” coach tour. This was late in the northern Spring, which meant that the weather was variable, including one day that was spoiled by … Continue reading
Best meals in Côte d’Or: Chez Jeannette
The day of our move from Beaune to Dijon was May the 1st, May Day, also Labour Day and therefore a public holiday in France. After breakfast, we headed north, leaving the main highway at Clos de Vougeot to rejoin the … Continue reading
Vienna return & farewell
Our second morning in Cesky Krumlov brought the promise of warm, fine days to close our tour. As Janos, a performer of numerous minor driving miracles, pointed our coach in the direction of Austria, any memories of the cool, showery … Continue reading
Prague and Cesky Krumlov: I have some bad news and I have some good news
So, you’ve heard that Prague is a beautiful city, one of the most visit-worthy in Europe, if not the world. Only one problem with that information – countless thousands of other will-be-travellers have heard the same story. They have voted … Continue reading
Berlin and Dresden
Berlin! Where to begin? I will start with a dog, a Golden Retriever kind of hund, asleep at its owner’s feet in the lobby bar of the Marriott Hotel in Berlin; note the water bowl also. As some of you … Continue reading
On tour: Budapest, Krakow and Warsaw
As I begin this post, our tour coach is driving west from Krakow towards Auschwitz. I suspect that I won’t feel up to writing in the hours after this visit; our group is already quiet, travelling sotto voce. Fittingly, the … Continue reading
Rick’s in Vienna …
… and so is Maggie but there is no sign of Inspector Rex! Never mind, there is much to see and do in Vienna, once you acclimatise to the monumental scale of the built landscape; and the street layout, based … Continue reading
Vienna via Dijon and Salzburg
There will be one last post about our Côte d’Or dining experiences but I am overdue to tell friends and colleagues in Melbourne about the progress of our trip. We are now in Vienna, the grand capital of the former … Continue reading
Rick and Maggie's food and travel adventures 