My favourite cookies are most often called Sultana Biscuits.
In Vancouver you can find them in speciality Asian food stores.
Superstore no longer stocks them. Walmart no longer stocks them.
Update. Superstore in Calgary had them in the foreign food speciality aisle December 2018.
You can buy Sultanas online from Amazon.com. But not Amazon.ca.
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The Eagle and Child, nicknamed The Bird and Baby, is a pub in St Giles’ Street, Oxford, England, owned by St. John’s College, Oxford. The pub had been part of an endowment belonging to University College since the 17th century. …
When I stopped in for lunch, neither Tolkien nor Lewis nor any of the Inklings were there. Too bad.
I asked the barkeep for a recommendation. He suggested bangers and mash.
While I was there a library was hosting an exhibit titled Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.
London’s a terrific walking city.
So cosmopolitan, the people watching is fascinating.
Most often I stroll the river. Searching for interesting kiosk food when I get peckish.
Bled is a super popular tourist town on a tiny, lovely lake.
I had arrived at the hostel in Ljubljana at 10pm. Next morning by 9am I had joined a group headed for Bled.
It’s an adventure tourism mecca: rafting, canyoning, cycling, rock climbing, mountain climbing. I watched scuba divers climb into the lake first thing in the morning.
We had 2 cars and one motor bike. Fellow travellers from the U.K., California, Belgium, France and Singapore. One reason why I like hostels so much better than hotels.
I paid for my ride in beer. Standard hostel currency.
We circumambulated the lake. Visited the “castle“. Then drove off to hike Vintgar Gorge.
An excellent day was punctuated by this sunset.
Don’t forget your camera.
At dinner we met two guys from Zurich. One hoped to climb Triglav 2864m. With guide that costs about 200€. It’s tough to get an alpine hut booking during high season so he came in October.
I asked for a traditional Bled meal. Mostly meat.
My table.
Opened March 1, 2004, the place was designed to recreate the bar made famous by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the movie classic Casablanca.
Set in an old courtyard-style mansion built against the walls of the Old Medina of Casablanca, the restaurant – piano bar is filled with architectural and decorative details reminiscent of the film …
As Time Goes By is a common request to the in-house pianist.
I splurged on a steak, the best meal I’ve had in two months on the road.
Casablanca the 1942 movie was filmed entirely in Hollywood. They never came to Morocco.
Definitely the city highlight for me.
Jemaa el-Fnaa is a square and market place in Marrakesh‘s medina quarter (old city). …
During the day it is predominantly occupied by orange juice stalls, water sellers with traditional leather water-bags and brass cups, youths with chained Barbary apes and snake charmers despite the protected status of these species under Moroccan law. …
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My best experience in the city was here. At night. It was packed at 9pm on the Holy Day.
April 2011 there was a terrorist bombing her killing 17 people. Now there are cameras and a significant but discrete police presence. Still, you stay alert for scams and pickpockets.
