Category Food
Castles and churches and ice cream in Kilkenny
After a slow Sunday morning in Dublin, I caught a train to Kilkenny, a beautiful little medieval village to the southwest of the capitol. The journey took me (as I presume all journeys in Ireland do) through brilliant green countryside drenched in sunshine, dotted with sheep, and crisscrossed with hedgerows and low stone walls. I […]
Weekend trip to New York!
As impossible as this may seem given my youthful glow, it has been ten years since I graduated from law school. Ten. Time for a reunion! Never one to pass up an excuse to spend time in New York, I took the day off work and flew out this morning. Weirdly, it takes nearly as […]
Nighttime in Brussels
Back in Brussels for a night. Meetings start in the morning and then I’m on the train back to London — so I took tonight for a lovely walk around the old town center. The amazing Grand Place, the cathedral where I went contacting–jet lagged–on the first day of my mission, the little pita shop […]
The food was better this time
While I remember very little of what I saw in Munich when I was here in 2003, I remember very clearly that I did not eat well. My bank account by that time was running nearly on fumes, and I remember sometimes surviving on bananas and Twix for days at a time. Fortunately this time, […]
I’m in Munich!
Trivia question: Which takes longer, flying from London to Munich, or eating a French brunch in Denver? Answer: They take the same amount of time! I texted Amanda a few minutes before boarding in London and she said she couldn’t talk because brunch. When she texted back, I had just climbed into a taxi at […]
A few days in Seattle
A week of business meetings was the reason for the trip, but outside of work is where all the real action was. I toured Amazon’s famous newly opened spheres; visited not one but two of my favorite nurseries to restock plants at the house; won an “Iron Chef” style competition by simply deep frying everything […]
Portraits and pizza
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to do something interesting every weekend, even if I have to spend the rest of the weekend working or preparing my US tax return or otherwise stuck in front of a computer. This weekend I picked the National Portrait Gallery. I had never visited before because, well, I […]
Eating our way through Edinburgh
What do you eat on a food tour in Scotland? Well, haggis, for one. Served with neeps and tatties (a.k.a. turnips and potatoes). We Americans may look askance at a sausage made of sheep’s heart, liver, and lungs mixed with oats and wrapped in stomach lining — but it was actually quite tasty (and as […]
Christmas Day
Oh, Christmas! Always a lovely, low-key day, and even more so in London where the city really shuts down and I don’t have relatives or friends to visit outside my own home. We let ourselves sleep in until we woke up naturally, and then began opening presents after a quick first-breakfast of English muffins (or, […]
Christmas Eve
First Christmas Eve in London. Same trio as in recent years but without the familiar setting and trappings of home. We didn’t try to reinvent our traditions (raclette!). Instead we did what made sense in London: take-away Indian food! After dinner we sat around the table talking far longer than it made sense to sit […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 