Inspiring Travel Writing About Eating, Drinking & Shopping: Page 20 of 46

"When the Ottoman Empire collapsed in 1923, the Turks lost Mocha and suddenly coffee was an expensive import. Bereft of the traditional high-octane stimulant, Turks turned to tea..."

"Charles Dickens was struck by the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of Genoa when he passed through in 1844: 'it abounds in the strangest contrasts: things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful and offensive"

"Galway, Ireland, Oyster Festival, third weekend in September, for the craic. Join the Irish in a four-day thrash of seafood consumption, Guinness swigging and general revelry, with an oyster-opening competition down on the quays as a good excuse for..."

"There was never a country so built for the senses as Britain. The skirl and wheeze of a lonely bagpipe drifting down a Scottish glen; the tug of a Hampshire trout stream pummelling at your waders"