Am Back...

It has been an awfully long time. I mean really long. The holy month of ramadan meant that I could not eat out as frequently as I would have liked to. Add to the fact that the wife thinks I need to lose weight, I mean a lot of weight. So its not been all happy happy eating out in Foodsville.

However, every dark could has a silver lining. In my case this was our Eid trip to the beautiful wonderful Istanbul. Below is just a teaser. The real post will follow soon.




The quintessential drink in Turkey.






Watch this space!!

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