Category Food
Salmon at midnight in Madrid
When one misses one’s flight and gets in to Madrid too late for a proper dinner, one makes do with smoked salmon and sparkling water. Life could definitely be harder.
Dear England
On a scale from 0 to Mr Darcy, how English is it to eat crumpets, and does it help if they’re eaten with butter and Nutella for dinner after getting home from work at midnight?
Best thing I ate?
It’s a toss-up between the chocolate and churros from Chocolateria San Gines that I had for breakfast . . . . . . and the ceviche I had for lunch with sea bass, fresh strawberries, mint, sweet potato, and puffed Peruvian corn . . . . . . followed by grilled octopus with avocado, tomatoes […]
Luxembourg is not London
I’m in Luxembourg for a couple of days this week for work. I left the office at 10pm thinking I’d get an Uber to the hotel and then get some dinner at one of the nearby places recommended by coworkers. Here’s what I discovered: The building closes and locks the lobby sometime before 10pm, so […]
It’s not all glamorous
Guess what I had for dinner tonight! Yep. The staple of mission and student years which I haven’t made once in probably nearly ten years. But when you’re starving after a day of apartment hunting and don’t want to eat cold cereal for dinner again and can’t find any nearby restaurants that aren’t what you’ve […]
Seattle for the Fourth – Independence Day
The Fourth of July last year was blazing hot. This year? Not so much: Chilly and grey, with patches of rain. Apparently this is how the Pacific Northwest “does summer.” But being the good Americans we are, we celebrated our independence — weather be damned! We caught a late-morning ferry to Bainbridge Island, where Justin’s […]
Seattle for the Fourth – Lunch in Victoria
Victoria, BC, is normally a quick boat ride from Seattle — in under 3 hours you can go from downtown Seattle to the Inner Harbor in the most British of Canadian cities. Three hours on a good day, that is. Shortly after boarding our captain announced that we’d be taking a “weather route” due to […]
Seattle for the Fourth – Waterfalls and Musical Theatre
The parental units are in Seattle to celebrate America! Highlights from day one: – Brunch! – Naps! (No photos out of respect for the sleeping) – Snoqualmie Falls! – Dancing minors! (also, miners!)
Opera and people-watching and dinner in East London
Had I known how much I would like Kew Gardens, I might have planned to spend most of the day there. But I hadn’t known and had already made plans to see a matinee performance of Madama Butterfly at the English National Opera. I headed back into town in search of the opera house and some lunch. […]
Saturday in London
Compared to the difficulties I had trying to get to Brussels, it was a cinch getting to London. The small commuter plane left the tiny Luxembourg airport bright and early, touching down in the London City airport an hour later (though with the time zone change, we only lost about 10 minutes). I checked into […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 