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Orange and almond cake

Carrying on with the almond and fruit based baking (after making this delicious pear and frangipane tart), I found a recipe for orange and almond cake. A pretty simple cake and with a

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Celebrating two years in Milan & Switzerland

For our wedding anniversary this year we escaped to Italy and Switzerland for a long weekend. We've wanted to go back to Switzerland since our Zermatt trip in January 2015 (I wrote about

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
4 min read
baking

Pear frangipane tart

A Google search for 'autumnal baking' on the bus home from work got me inspired to get back in to baking. It has been months since I last baked something. I think the

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Is this really Scotland?

Blue skies, turquoise water, white sand beaches. At just under four hours drive from Edinburgh, the Silver Sands of Morar on Scotland's east coast can be reached. We camped for two nights at

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

28 in Loch Tay

My third visit to Loch Tay in Perthshire and this time it was to celebrate my 28th birthday. Relaxing in front of a cosy fire, trips to a local pub and frosty walks

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

A week in Ibiza

Ibiza wasn't the first place that came to mind when I'd think of where to go for a family holiday to celebrate a surprise 60th birthday. But that's where we ended up going,

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Three Days on the Isle of Skye

I've wanted to go to Skye ever since moving to Scotland almost eight years ago. Jon & I agreed that we wouldn't leave Scotland before we visited, and so we finally made it

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Blossoming Meadows

Spring has definitely come to Edinburgh. On Friday I heard that the cherry blossom had arrived in the Meadows so I made plans to take a walk to the park on Saturday with

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Our Wedding Album

After almost a year since our wedding day we finally got around to getting a wedding album. We wanted to get something special and chose to go with the layflat album from Artifact

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Where We Stayed in Barcelona

During our five day trip to Barcelona we stayed four nights in two wonderful hotels. Since it was a special trip for us (our first wedding anniversary), we wanted to stay somewhere memorable.

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

5 Days in Barcelona

Barcelona or Iceland were our two choices for where we would spend our first wedding anniversary. The sunshine won in the end and we spent five wonderful days in sunny Barcelona. In High

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Mallorca

We spent 5 days exploring the beautiful and diverse island of Mallorca. I'm not sure why we had never though of visiting Mallorca before, but I am so glad we did. We stayed

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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food

Coffee & Walnut Cupcakes

I'm not a huge fan of drinking coffee. I'll drink it occasionally if we have some made up or if we're in a coffee shop, but generally I'd make a green tea if

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
3 min read
life

72 hours in Copenhagen: Day 3

Monday // Day 3 Our final day in Copenhagen began with more Danish pastries. We walked round the corner from our AirBnB and down a small alley to a Laura's Bakery - yum! We

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

72 Hours in Copenhagen: Day 2

Sunday // Day 2 After a little lie in and still feeling full from last night's meal, we shared a leftover danish pastry that we brought back from Laura's Bakery yesterday to start us

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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travel

72 Hours in Copenhagen: Day 1

Our long weekend trip to Copenhagen began with a flight from Edinburgh with Ryanair. The flights were under £50pp return, and took less than 2 hours (enough time for a couple of podcasts)

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
4 min read
baking

Lemon Cupcakes with Pistachios

At the beginning of the year Jon & I decided to go sugar-free for a couple months before our wedding. I was given Madeleine Shaw's Get The Glow book for Christmas, where she

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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wedding

Honeymoon in the Maldives

The Maldives was exactly what we wanted for our honeymoon. Full relaxation on a beautiful tropical island, with blue skies and the clear Indian Ocean. It was even better than I imagined it

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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wedding

25.03.16

Photo credit: Neil Thomas Douglas Hoorah we are married! It was a dream come true to marry Jon surrounded by our family and friends, and we both had such a fun day -

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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wedding

Wedding Invites

Hooray - our wedding invites should have arrived with everyone by now. I wanted them to be quite simple, and I am pleased with how they came out. We started by looking online,

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Wedding Progress

Wedding plans are coming along nicely (and slowly), so I thought I'd write a bit here on where I'm at currently. We have the venue, the dress, the website and the honeymoon sorted.

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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life

Quick Weekend Trip to London

Jon and I spent last weekend in London. We stayed just one night at Tower Bridge and travelled by train from Edinburgh. This was our first overnight trip to London together and we

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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beauty

Free Your Mind (May Birchbox) & Birchbox Man

The rain has been pouring on and off over the past week and with a weather warning it looks set to stay around for a little while longer. Thankfully the May Birchbox came

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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Around Edinburgh

Seacliff Beach & Bass Rock

This weekend was Jon's birthday weekend (hooray!) and we spent our Saturday in East Lothian. We started the day at Seacliff beach (they normally have a barrier charging £2 per car for parking

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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travel

Zermatt, Switzerland (video)

Jon & I recorded a few video clips whilst we were in Zermatt, and I stuck them together to make the video above. (sorry about the youtube music...) You can see all our

  • Sarah Fry
    Sarah Fry
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