Borough Market, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

 Breakfast......the donut....I was going to have one bite. It was the most amazing donut I have ever had.

Lunch.....Dorset

 Scallops and Paella

Dinner, carefully selected and carried nine miles in the backpacks.

Walking the South Bank to Westminster, St. James Park, Hyde Park Lido, Kensington Palace and To collapse at Mary's Notting Hill flat for our dinner above,

Eleven Miles and Portobello Road Street Food Heaven

8-8-16 Living the street food and London park walk dream! 

Arrival 8-7-16 Notting Hill, Cocotte

Reykjavik Food Walk

From my guide:

HEY HEY my friend Sue!
Egill here from the Reykjavik Food Walk.

JAAY! Our Reykjavik Food Walk tour is finally up tomorrow!

The weather for tomorrow actually looks just brilliant! Not too windy and we might get some SUN! ... But I would always just recommend you to dress WARM and then nothing will stop us in having a blast!

I will be hosting our tour myself and I'm super excited to see you! I will be standing to meet you in front of Harpa (maybe inside if it will be COLD .... ) and I will be wearing a YELLOW Cintamani raincoat and a have a backpack on my back. I'm 100% sure that we will spot each other right away. But you can always drop me a line or call directly (+354 849-5876) if you can't find me or something comes up :)

I hope this sounds great and I am super excited to see you tomorrow for the awesome day ahead!

Warm regards,

Egill and the Reykjavik Food Walk team

PS. Hope you'll show up HUNGRY since 13 cuisines are waiting for you!

From me to you. ....okay, I thought this would be a tasting, and it was a four hour walking tour of full courses. Even with my self-guided walking tour along the sea wall early in the morning it was a challenge, but I really enjoyed it. Toured with a Danish Family visiting their daughter who is currently working in Iceland, and a young guy who works for Spotify in New York. 

Look Ergil up if you come to Reykjavik! He's a wonderful guide and this is his own business.

The tour was a blend of traditional Icelandic food and a taste of the contemporary favorites.

Lamb soup, three cheeses and three meats in contemporary style, rye bread ice cream, Skyr - not yogurt, but an Icelandic low fat staple that is similar;  lamb hotdog with crispy onions and secret sauces, lobster soup.....the restaurant that led to a boom in business and restaurants in the harbor;   special dessert  at Apotex.

Reykjavik 2016

This is my second mini-Icelandic adventure. In 2014 I came with Mary and we focused on geography, geology, and the cold wet waters of the Atlantic. Today we agreed there could be no better evening remedy for jet lag.

I think this will always be my favorite photo of the two of us, because the crewman captured our surprise and joy.

I am on my way to visit Mary as she finishes her final two months of grad school at the Royal College Of Music in London. I decided to stop in Iceland so I could sit in the Blue Lagoon for five hours. Yes, I had the prune effect. The algae mask was pretty divine. You hop off the plane and onto a bus and you're in the lagoon by 8:00 a.m. It was sunny all morning. As I left it pelted hail and that was followed by torrential rain. The sun is back out and that might be the case until midnight.

I debated how to spend my day Saturday. I went with the reason that motivated me to come back, other than the Blue Lagoon. That was to walk Reykjavik. Then I got more specific. That is "food walk". I've lost most of you now. This is why Tapenade is my chosen blog. Mary and I plan to walk miles in London and graze our way through the city's markets. That's my focus in Iceland too.

Tell me that you can't look at this Icelandic food, the most authentic choice according to my waitress, and feel the past meet the present. Valuable calories in Iceland. The fermented shark did best me psychologically and texturally. Okay, I had a piece stuck in my teeth and I thought it might be there forever....small panic. The dried cod was a challenge until I broke off small pieces. It had very little taste. The rest was very good. I enjoyed it. I like lamb soup any time. There were two types of rye bread, sweet and then flat and sharp. The smoked lamb tasted like a bonfire. The trout with some cottage cheese and the potato salad with smoked haddock was great. 

After I ate more than I needed, I strolled. When I blog, I type on my touch pad. This is a casual blog. I also have a room with a view. Don't know how I got so lucky there.

Best Eats Cannon Beach July 2016

Sea Level, Tolovana

Maple Bourbon Pecan Roll and Cappucino.....definitely treats.

Bill's, Cannon Beach

Fish and Chips...good, but the Breakwater in Aberdeen are number one so far.

Lazy Susan, the Yucatan

Cannon Beach

We've been eating here for more than 30 years, and Mary had her first visit here at six months old. Lazy Susan.....our favorite beach restaurant for food and ambiance.