Fortnum & Mason Flapjack biscuits

These are one of the new biscuits in the range (with the updated tins!) and are very tasty chewy flapjack style biscuits!  Very filling and dunkable!  It's a 200g tin containing approx a dozen biscuits costing £7.95.  Not my favourite in the range but not my least favourite either, you won't be disappointed with this one!  

Available in all Fortnums stores as well as online here Fortnum & Mason flapjack

Harrods caramelised onion relish

This relish is rather yummy - and it goes very well with Scotch eggs!!!  (boiled egg inside pork meat, breaded and - I think - deep fried).  It costs £3.95 for a 220g jar and is available in the Brompton Road store and online at the Harrods website here Caramlised onion which also lists the ingredients.  If ordering from outside the UK, you'll need to check the import duty, if any.  But it's scrumptious!!!

Twinings Swiss hot chocolate drink

This chocolate is at the lower price range of the hot chocolate market - it's a tad on the watery side and rather sugary too, but pleasant enough otherwise.  It's available in most UK supermarkets (got mine at Tesco's) and also online here Twinings chocolate priced at £3.99 for a 350g tub

Fortnum and Mason After Dinner coffee

This is a really nice coffee!!!  Not quite as good as the Harrods but now that Harrods have rebranded their coffee range and only have one instead of four, the Fortnums coffee makes a good alternative.  The After Dinner Viennese blend comes in a 250g tin and is ground from Colombian and Guatamalan beans.  It costs £12.50 a tin and is available instore or online here After Dinner Viennese Coffee

Fortnum & Mason Salted Caramel Biscuits

Fortnums have recently rebranded their biscuit range and added two new flavours, this salted caramel being one of the new ones.  They're very tasty biscuits, although the caramel bits are a tad hard/chewy even when the biscuit has been dunked in tea/hot chocolate.  They come in 200g tins costing £7.95 and are available instore and online HERE

The River Hotel, Oxford

We stayed at this hotel practically by accident - we'd booked two nights at the Oxford Youth Hostel (which is about 100 yards away on the same road, right around the corner from Oxford Train Station) but due to the noise levels in the hostel (mix of noisy guests plus night time trains) impacting on Andrea's tinnitus, we were unable and unwilling to stay at the Hostel for a second night.  We'd noticed this hotel up the road, so looked them up on the internet and found they still had vacancies so we booked a room for our second night in Oxford.

We're VERY pleased we did!!!  It's a family run hotel in a Victorian house, and very comfortable, very quiet, friendly staff and a wonderful yummy breakfast!!!  The single room we had, had tea making facilities, private bathroom, TV and free wifi and the breakfast includes tea or coffee, fruit juice, cereals and as much of a cooked breakfast as you want.  AND it's only a 5 minute walk to the train station - I believe there's carparking available though (we don't have a car)

Their website is here River Hotel

It's ever so slightly off the beaten track, but we'd have no worries staying there again.

Mozart dark chocolate liqueur drink

This is an Austrian version of Baileys Irish cream - made with kirsch and Belgian chocolate and cream, in this case dark chocolate.  This stuff tastes divine either on its' own and also goes well as an addition to hot chocolate for extra pizzazz!!!  I've seen this for sale in Continental European duty free in airports and also in the Harrods department store in London.

Also available on the Harrods website as Mozart Black for £19 a bottle