Category Travel
Christmas Eve Day
What a fun day! Justin and I started the day with an early brunch** at The Elk in the Woods, which is just a few doors down from my flat. (**Justin claims that anything before 10am doesn’t qualify as brunch and must be called breakfast; I’m just going to call it early brunch.) The […]
We both made it!
The British Airways flight went perfectly smoothly and I landed right as Justin finished collecting his bags — so we met on the train platform and are making our way in together. So a happy ending after all. Whew!
Third time is not the charm
Seriously. Orange screens again. They offered to put me on the next LuxAir flight, but I don’t trust it to go. So I’ve changed airlines and airports (British Airways to Heathrow) in hopes of actually getting out (at least I know they succeeded yesterday). One potential upside? Justin will land at Heathrow an hour before […]
Silver lining (but still not enough sleep)
So. Guess what I see after twelve hours of waiting in the airport for the next flight to London: Deja vu! A quick scramble, momentary hope for a flight on another airline to a different London airport, then bad news, a voucher for a night’s stay at the Ibis, a brief fight with a taxi […]
Change of plans
6:45am flight delayed, then cancelled, due to weather in London. Next available flight? Twelve hours later. I’m debating whether I just work from the airport or go in to the office. Either way the thought of a full day’s work on 3 hours of sleep is daunting. So I’m starting with an early-morning “lunch” with […]
Quick, to the Christmas market!
I’m in Luxembourg, in December, there’s fresh snow on the ground, and a Christmas market in the centre ville. How could I not go? I nearly didn’t. A combination of having gotten up at 4:30am to catch my flight followed by a day of back-to-back meetings meant that by the time I got to the […]
Back to Milan!
This time for a quick work trip. The weather was very cold, but also beautifully sunny and clear. We could see the snow covered mountains in the distance. Also, turns out our new Milan office is in the chicest part of town. Approximately 100% if the people I saw were more fashionable than me. After […]
Empty row
Just what you want to see when you board an 8.5 hour flight, especially when you have that Excedrin-induced post-headache hit-by-a-truck feeling. A nap will not be long in coming…
Table Rock
When everyone feels stir crazy but not yet ready for more left-overs, you head to the hills to stand in the wind and watch the sun set.
Venice!
Fifteen years since I first came to Venice. I’m no longer a college student (too poor to do more than read Great Expectations on the piazza while other people ate dinner), but the city is still just as magical.
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 