Category Travel
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 […]
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. […]
Kew Gardens
Inspired by my run through Kensington Gardens, I decided to take the train out to Kew Gardens. A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Kew Gardens are considered one of the best gardens in the world. They cover hundreds of acres, and I could have spent all day there — as it was, I only had time […]
Kensington Gardens
I went for a run this morning through Hyde Park and took a detour to visit the gardens of Kensington Palace. I may have spent more time looking at plants than I spent actually running… My favorite, the sunken garden. Kensington Palace. Not super impressive from the outside. The Italian Fountains. Built by Prince Albert […]
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 […]
The Belgians strike again
The past four days have been a blur of all-day business meetings followed by dinners among colleagues and hours of midnight work to catch up on all my normal work that has been displaced by these meetings. Needless to say, I’ve seen nothing more of Luxembourg beyond what I saw on the first day. But […]
Luxembourg
It’s not the worst thing to work for a company with offices in Europe! This week I’ve got a series of meetings in Luxembourg, and then I’ll spend a couple days in London meeting with colleagues (and then playing for Memorial Day weekend). I flew out on Sunday from Seattle to Amsterdam (9 hours) and […]
Booked!
Can you guess where we’re going in March? Needless to say, I can hardly wait.
New York – A three-star last day
Like all good things, our trip came to a close on Saturday. But our flights were late enough that we still had the bulk of the day to play — and play we did! Nicole, a good friend of mine from Kennedy Center days, recently moved from DC to New York, so we began our […]
New York – Towers and windows and sign language on New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day is typically pretty dull. The parties from the night before are over, and although it’s technically a holiday, it’s one that you celebrate while knowing that you’ve still got a long, greyish stretch of winter before the distant summer. That said, if you’re willing to get up early(ish), New Year’s Day is a great day to […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 