Tag: Oysters

• Oysters, a fish called Spot and a foodie trip with Lorraine Eaton on the Eastern Shore

  Jane got a call from her friend Lorraine who wondered if we’d like to do a trip north to Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The oyster season had begun and I was more than interested. You see Lorraine Eaton is the food writer for The states main newspaper, The Virginian Pilot, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the…

  Anna Buckley

  October 14, 2015

  Baking, Cakes, Food, Friends, Holidays, People, Places, Travel

  Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, erotica, Lorraine Eaton, Machipongo, Oysters, Soft shell crabs, Virginia, Watermen, writing

• The Disappearing Tangier Island.

  Tangier is a small sand island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, on the east coast of America. My next book is set on a fictitious version of Tangier and researching it was the real reason for my trip to the States. I’d read about Tangier in 2007. Bill Bryson mentioned in his…

  Anna Buckley

  September 26, 2015

  Food, Holidays, Life, Lifestyle, People, Places, Travel

  America, Chesapeake Bay, Climate Change, erotica, Fishing Quotas, Oysters, Soft Shell Crab, Tangier Island, writing

• The surprisingly gorgeous North Fork, Greenport and Shelter Island (part 2).

  Our trip continues and we eventually reach Greenport, at the top end of the North Fork. From there we take the Ferry to Shelter Island. I look out across the water, see a yacht and am instantly reminded of my own sailing adventure a few weeks back. I contemplate how nice it would be to…

  Anna Buckley

  September 12, 2015

  Holidays, Lifestyle, People, Places, Travel

  Bars, erotica, Greenport, New York, North Fork, Oysters, Real Estate, Shelter Island, The Hamptons, WestHampton, writing