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Alfama

On Alfama, The Oldest Most Charming District in Lisbon

Posted on May 7, 2018 By Leander Dias

    My first thought after listening to a brief history of Alfama was to tell my mother that I would have probably survived the…

In Defence of Flavour: Food

In Defence of Flavour: Relearning What Tastes Good

Posted on March 18, 2018March 18, 2018 By Leander Dias

We are what we eat: an amalgamation, a conglomerate of bacteria, enzymes and various other microbes that connect us not only to other people but…

Pret London - Joseph Dias

Leander in London’s Pret Matrix: A Foodie’s Plea

Posted on February 4, 2018February 21, 2018 By Leander Dias

  I felt strangely sullied coming out of a Pret-A-Manger recently. It was around eight in the evening, just after a Tuesday Krav Maga session,…

Father with a tender coconut

Goan Insights: The Goan Tender Coconut

Posted on January 25, 2018February 21, 2018 By Leander Dias

  I’d wager that the first thing that comes to mind when some hear the word ‘coconut’, is the heavily processed white sweet stuff in…

Fisherman's Wharf, Goa

Goan Insights: To Eat at a Restaurant in Goa

Posted on January 6, 2018February 21, 2018 By Leander Dias

  I’m not sure I quite understand the obsession with multi-cuisine menus in Goan restaurants. One section with the familiar recheado coated seafood listings, some…

Christmas Lunch

A Very Goan Christmas at the Villa Dias

Posted on December 30, 2017February 21, 2018 By Leander Dias

  There are no turkey centrepieces on our Christmas table. Nor ones of chicken or lamb, we just don’t do them. I think if you…

PKM Christmas Dinner at Kervan Sofrasi

Posted on December 27, 2017February 21, 2018 By Leander Dias

  This is going to sound utterly bonkers, but I believe there are significant parallels between restaurant criticism and Krav Maga. Hold it! Don’t leave…

View from the Vienna State Opera stands

Travelog: Vienna – A Coffee Before the Aria

Posted on November 15, 2017November 27, 2017 By Leander Dias

  In my mind, the kind of people that attended operas were those so rich that attendance was a weekly custom or a fortnightly outing,…

Viennese Wandering

Travelog: Vienna – Viennese Wandering

Posted on November 11, 2017November 27, 2017 By Leander Dias

  As soon as I stepped off my train and into the Viennese air I knew I was going to love the city. Maddy can…

Bratislava Majales

Travelog: Bratislava – Mahalo Majáles!

Posted on October 27, 2017November 27, 2017 By Leander Dias

  It so happens, that all that I’ve previously written about not having anything to do in Bratislava was nonsense. I suppose our not knowing…

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