I know a number of you have been following this issue and we can now conclude the saga with the news that our cards arrived last week! It was very…

I grew up in San Francisco, and family have lived there since the early 70s. I’ve watched it’s food scene for a lot of decades, from the early days of…

This post is part of a series called Winter Walkabout 2024 As we said last week, rather than spend a day of our mere one-week trip in transit between Vienna…

Did you know that between the beginning of November and the beginning of January there are at least twenty separate holiday events happening around the world? Clearly we humans like…

We recently were asked about our travel kit; the person was looking for holiday gift ideas. If you’ve been reading us for a bit, you know we have opinions; strong…

This post is part of a series called North America – 2023 Our next stop on our grand tour was San Francisco, the city by etc… The agenda was deceptively…

This week’s post is a quick interruption in the current series. We’ve been on the move so much that our writing time has been a struggle to find. There are…

Last night we arrived at Frankfurt airport close to 11pm. I was comforted by knowing that our hotel was at the airport, the map made it look like just a…

This post is part of a series called Dursley 2023 When is a mound of dirt not a mound of dirt? When it’s actually a mound of chalk! Ok, not…

One of the very few hassles we’ve had to deal with is that Lisa owned the condo her mother lived in back in California. We knew it was very likely…